964 Color Change Shop Advice and Recommendations/Tips

[wprater]

And off she goes! Media blasting the shell before epoxy primer. I ended up stripped every nut, bolt, support, etc. Fenders will come off before the blasting.

[Cairo94507]

For a color change on a car you intend to keep, I think you are doing it correctly. Media blasting removes all the original color. I color changed my car and we did the same thing. Today, about 6 years after the repaint, with about 16K miles on her, it still looks perfect. We used a single-stage paint and had PPF applied to the front end, A-pillars, wheel well lips and door cups. Good luck and have fun. Michael

[wprater]

Smaller parts are painted black now. Thanks for tips on this one guys.

[3rd_gear_Ted]

What condition is your Glass Rubber?
My cars rubber fit perfect before replacement.
I massaged the old rubber and reused it.
Turned out as good as before.
The new Uro seals I hear have fit issues

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by wprater

Smaller parts are painted black now. Thanks for tips on this one guys.

Nice!

[wprater]

I was able to save the rear quarters and front door rubber (quarter? not sure what you call that one). The rest I need to replace and I have OEM in my workshop now.

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

What condition is your Glass Rubber?
My cars rubber fit perfect before replacement.
I massaged the old rubber and reused it.
Turned out as good as before.
The new Uro seals I hear have fit issues

[wprater]

Is the same black we used for the trim/accessories suitable for the black accents on the rockers and rear bumper? Or do we use something else for those details?

[wprater]

All disassembled and ready for blasting. Will start a new thread for my re-assembling process.

[wprater]

Making good progress on paint and assembly. Doing some minor RS and ROW modifications while in shell format.

- RoW side markers
- Removed some unnecessary brackets
- RoW glovebox

I was going to do some of the seam welding, but the car was already in epoxy, so I skipped that. I will add some swaybar reinforcements later.

[85RedCarrera]

Cool project.

[wprater]

What is the general rule how/where the factory painted the ineriors areas black? As well as the door panels. I took some photos while I was ripping the car apart. Did they use a brush?

[wprater]

Doors too.

[Balisong]

I have a vague memory that they stopped painting the edges of the doors black in the 91 updates but I could be wrong.
Congrats on the progress.
The car needed so much a color change was the right choice.
Did you have much rust under the front fenders? Good that it was a Ca car.

[wprater]

Intersing, mines a 1990, but I'd be curious to see some 1992 models, I'll look around.

It's a WA car for the first 30 years of it's life. The only rust we found was in the cowl area, but we fixed that up!

[Balisong]

I have a 91 less than 20K original miles that was Washington based most of its life and there is not a hint of corrosion anywhere. May as well be a new car.
I have a 90 also with less than 20K original miles that was Cali based all its life but still in proximity to the ocean and while it’s a rust free car there is some chalkiness on items like door hinge pins or other plated items. Nuts and bolts on the Ca car are usually a little tougher to break free.

[wprater]

Car is painted! Now to add some black accents on interior etc., polish and start to re-assemble.

[Cairo94507]

Nothing like a chassis in fresh paint.

[stanglife]

Hopefully you can share the approximate $$$ of the repaint. Looks like you did a lot of the prep - delivering the car shell.

What was used for blasting? Any trouble getting epoxy up under the dash and such?

[signal]

What did you end up doing on the underside of the chassis ?

[wprater]

For the underside, I followed the factory patterns (from what I can gather) of body color wheel wells, rockers, and overspray in the other areas of the pan, etc. We Epoxy primed the whole shell, seam sealed, and masked up everything.