My Yelli Celi Bodywork Project Options

[Rayme]

Awesome man, I'll be shortly starting my own bodywork project, though of a quite smaller scale...hatch and doors, but I'll take notes of your work , thank you for all the info!

[Coomer]

I'm a bit discouraged. I sanded everything down that I painted and re-sprayed some parts with a better gun and compressor, but still came out with lots of orange peel.

And on the parts I tried sanding with high-grit sandpaper(800, 1000, 1500, 2000,) I couldn't buff them to look ok for the life of me. I tried three different rubbing compounds and three different polishes both by hand and machine and my paint looked like it had really, really bad swirl marks no matter what I did. I'm wondering if a bodyshop could buff the car for me once I've got it all sanded down.

[axelrduvirage]

hang in there buddy.



i started my project http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=38095&st=0 almost a month ago and thought i'd be done by father's day at the very latest. it is slow going and, like you, things aren't going as smooth as planned. seems orangepeel is a viscosity issue. make certain you spray thin even coats, your reducer is not flashing off too quickly, is well mixed and humidity is below 85%. these are the only constants i could find when looking up the problem on the web.



FYI:

http://www.sherwin-automotive.com/referenc..._peel/index.cfm



keep posting updates





This post has been edited by axelrduvirage: Jun 27, 2006 - 5:50 AM

[Coomer]

Day Seven

Today consisted of sanding everything down completely in preparation for more paint, that hopefully goes on correctly this time.

The sanded part pictures are at home on the other camera, but I'll show you the aftermath on my body at the end of the day. I told my mom to rub sunscreen on my back this morning, but she failed to get my spine area, so now I have a nice painful Christmas-tree shaped sunburn on my back.

[CelicaQT]

OUCH! Try to get some aloe on there Chris! Your doing a great job though!! Keep it up man...no matter how painful it may be.

[axelrduvirage]

instead of aloe, try hanging a few lights and some garland-- no one will notice Christmas in July, yeah!!!

when i saw the pic i thought of a camping so long ago...we were canoeing down the Miramichi River and we were all too MALE to ask each other to apply lotion on our backs. did our GFs laugh at us when we emerged from the wilderness on Sunday? YES!! 8 guys with matching sunburns...how odd.



hope you get to work on the car this weekend. are you taking Monday off to stretch it into a long Fourth of July weekend? i will be spending a lot of time this Canada Day weekend working on my Celi. hope to fnish masking today and get to the task of painting finally.



the yeloceli is so sharp looking! best of success.



ray

This post has been edited by axelrduvirage: Jun 29, 2006 - 4:52 AM

[doGGy]

Chris - about orange peel - either you are using too thick paint and you need to ad some dissolvent to them - or your pressure on your compressor is too low. These are 2 main issues.

About swirl marks, are ya using Clear coat? Or you get swirl marks on your Acril paint? If the swirl marks are Under clearcoat - you aint sanded primer good. As for referance - once you primer your parts - take a ratle can (pref Black) spray really really thin coat of the back paint over your primer (i ussualy dont even cover the surface, just cover it with some small spots of the paint) and then start sanding - you will see all the inperfections on your surface cuz they all be black, this way you will determinate where and how much you need to sand and if you need another coat of primer or not.

[Coomer]

Day Eight

Today was a good day...I finally got the paint to apply correctly, and it looks great so far on the parts I've painted. I sanded down the underside of my trunk lid so that I could test the paint on that.



I then cleaned it off and painted it, and it turned out well.



So I went ahead and painted the rear bumper, rear extensions, and fuel door, and all of them turned out good as well. I'm so happy that I finally got my painted parts looking good. Tomorrow I'm hoping to get a lot more parts that are off the car painted.

[JFrost9]

What did you do to get the paint to work out? I think it looks fantastic.

[dustin15brown]

looking great coom

[Rayme]

are you using a single coat type of paint? (urethane?)

[tomazws]

Looks awesome!

[WH95TE]

I cant wait to see the finished product. Yellow is always a nice color for cars

[Coomer]

Day Nine

Day nine was tons of work, but I got a lot done. I sanded down my front extensions, sideskirts, and rear spoiler pieces since they were painted, and then I shot some parts.



For the most part, things went well. You can see most of the parts above.



I put too much paint on and got a run on the corner of the front bumper though. You can also see some orange peel.



The trunk lid had quite a bit of orange peel. Flat surfaces are hard for me to shoot.



You can see the sideskirt in some detail above. They turned out well.



The mirrors turned out well too.

Jfrost, I used a different sort of paint together with more thinner.

Rayme, I'm using a synthetic enamel single stage paint.

[b1gr3d]

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Rayme, I'm using a synthetic enamel single stage paint.

thre's your problem

[NEVERSTOP]

lookin great Coom! I'll glad you didnt give up after havin some probs

Wanted to ask where you got the sideskirts from??

[dustin15brown]

lookin great Coom! I'll glad you didnt give up after havin some probs

Wanted to ask where you got the sideskirts from??

Romas (Doggy)

[Coomer]

Day Ten

Today I painted the last of the parts off of the car. Again, I had trouble with the pieces with large horizontal surfaces getting lots of orange peel.



In the photo above, you can kind of see the orange peel.



In this one, you can see it in closer detail.



The vertical pieces, like the spoiler posts and center section, came out well though.

[Batman722]

Coomer, I am so looking forward to seeing the finished product. Stuff like this amazes me.

[Jaws4God]

are you putting on a different spoiler?