been awhile since i have posted, i have been working on the cars and i built a boat in the last year and a half. keep in mind i am on a tight budget but desperate to get this car assembeled, i have been at my house for almost 5 years and the car has not gotten far.... it needs paint in a bad way! anyways i am not a auto body guy but i know enough to do some pretty decent body work, i have replaced my rockers, shaved everything on my regal, aligned doors, clip..... i painted my regal probably 8 years ago with some single stage dupont blue, we used a siphon feed gun, a pile of crap compressor and barely knew enough to adjust the gun to get paint to come out. long story short the paint job had lots of orange peel and flaws. we did however get one area to look decent but still had orange peel. i had tried we sanding parts of the car back then and it didnt work out so well. so here i am now, i have been researching how to paint for years on and off, i got some confidence in myself from what i have learned. i bought primer a few months back, the eastwood 2 part epoxy, yesterday i finally got the turbo hood and passenger side fender stripped to bare metal and i shot the primer. it came out near perfect! i cant believe haw much easier it was with a gravity feed gun and a good compressor (60 gallon 2 stage speedair) long story short i am confident that i can paint my car and have it presentable. now is where my delima begins. i have been looking at the tcp global paint for a long time and i have read everything i can find online about it. although no one who had actually used it had anything bad to say about it allot of people talked down on it saying that the price was too good to be true to have a good paint job that would last. i was ready to order it ayways until today, i priced out ppg, about 500 bucks but i asked the guy what the shelf life was and he said that if it was stored indoors at room temp there is no reason that it would go bad even 10 years later. when i panted my car the first time with single stage dupont i saved the remaining half gallon of paint i didnt use, it has been stored indoors this whole time so i opened it up, as far as i can tell there is nothing wrong with it.... so over the weekend i got curious about cutting and buffing, i now have a high speed polisher so i busted out the sand paper and wet sanded the paint that was not sprayed well in the first place and got it pretty dawn flat, then i started buffing and polishing it. it turned out great! so now i am thinking if i have a half gallon plus reducer and all to have 3/4 of a gallon sprayable then why not use it??? am i going to gain that much using base clear?? i am not building a top end show car, i am building something better then the average guy that sprays their car and forgets the door jams and what not. the car will leterally be torn al the way apart, it is barely set together right now, and will have the fire wall that is shaved, the door jams, under the hood and trunk.... with all of this said and i am sorry it is so long, i am not sure if i should stick with the name brand single stage i have or if i should use the off brand tcp global paint? i will try to post some pictures
need input on paint. single or bc/cc paint on budget
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I've used tcp's single stage and thought it turned out well...
I'll be using their paint again, as soon as it warms up here...
I'll be using their paint again, as soon as it warms up here...
I've had good results with PPG's low line stuff; Omni
I tried cheaping out by using Summit Racing's two stage paint for my last paint project and regret doing so. For another $100, I could have bought Omni and had a better finished product. Color is going to determine price as well, Reds usually cost way more than white. I would try and stop by a local auto body supply place before you commit to a product. Some of those places have very knowledgeable people working there. I was lucky enough to find a place like that locally; I get decent pricing and great advice.
I tried cheaping out by using Summit Racing's two stage paint for my last paint project and regret doing so. For another $100, I could have bought Omni and had a better finished product. Color is going to determine price as well, Reds usually cost way more than white. I would try and stop by a local auto body supply place before you commit to a product. Some of those places have very knowledgeable people working there. I was lucky enough to find a place like that locally; I get decent pricing and great advice.
67rstbkt said:
X's 2 on the Omni stuff and on talking to your local bodyshop supplier. Another nice thing about using the acrylic enamel, if you use hardner, you can put clear over top (usually just another $100 for the gallon). Then you can wet sand without worry of distorting your metallic (if using metallic). To answer the other question, stay with what you started with. If you switch, there could be a compatability issue and you'll have to start over.......
locally i am looking at 500 bucks for the shop line ppg.... the summit stuff i would not consider at all, it is relabeled kirker and the stuff is not good from what i have read... i have read nothing but good on the tcp restoration shop line of paint... i think it is a good option right now. i cant seem to find anyone online selling name brand paint besides house of kolor
I really really LOVE valspar. its basically budget dupont. It even has a dupont label on it most of the time. The make a 2k premium urethane enamel single stage. As a painter, thats what i would recommend. Im going to use it on my jeep cause it sprays good, its thick enough you can buff it, and it holds up better to the sun and elements. There's definitely cheaper stuff, but if you want a "better than your average idiots" paint job its definitely worth looking into.
i ordered the tcp global restoration shop kit base/clear in daytona blue pearl. i will post with results since there is no good info out there about the product. i am also going to shoot a piece of scrap metal and let it sit outside until whenever and see if it has UV issues.
uneek1976 said:
I've used it before on two cars. It's alright, but I still like PPG better. The clear did not seem the same for some reason. PPG's Omni line is in the same price range.
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