20-foot Picasso

[sean_V8_914]

I just painted my 20-foot car. Now its a 3 foot car (depending on your vision prescription). Engine building, brakes, and suspension.... piece o cake. Painting.... should be called preping and cleaning. This project suffered major feature creep. I was just going to mask it and spray it, ya know, just make it shine a little. The paint was only $100. Then I pulled the trunk seal out. Who wants to go through the hassle of masking all that rubber? Under the trunk seal I found rust in the rail, not a lot but I ground it off and treated it with POR-15. Then I went to tape the door seals off. The seals already had red over-spray from their previous life in the donor car I took them from so I pulled those too…Damn! More rust. Not a lot, so I scraped, brushed and more POR-15. I see a pattern developing here so I just pulled it all apart. Removed all the seals, the interior, lights, signals, even the windshield. So here it is, 4 weeks and $300 later. I photographed every step of the way . If ya’ll are interested, I’ll re-size the pics and post some

[sean_V8_914]

I like this pic

[sean_V8_914]

how did teh ash get under teh seal?

[jkeyzer]

Wow Sean, that looks great!

[Va914]

Nice work...Looks like a good paint job from here...

Enjoy your newly painted 914

[cshogen]

Nice job Sean! I am interested in seeing your pics of the process. What equipment and paint type did you use?

[AZ914]

Very nice....! Looks good with the matching rockers too.
For some reason I thought you had a V8.. ?!

[Tidybuoy]

Looks like it was worth the effort! Good Job!

I'm gonna do the same someday.

[sean_V8_914]

Die grinder, wire wheel on a drill, an entire gallon of Acrylic Enamel with MAR Hyde wet look hardener, anti-fish eye drops in mix, POR-15/grey, MAR Hyde etching primer over POR-15, Laquer high built Evercoat primer everywhere else. Carboduim sand paper (one sheet lasts a long time) A gallon of wax/grease removing solvent

[sean_V8_914]

V8 car is next. this is my daily driver car

[sean_V8_914]

...the white one is the daily driver.

[sean_V8_914]

[sean_V8_914]

grey POR 15 on the windshield frame's surface rust. Etching primer near all teh edges. I like clean sharp edge lines. cowl line was fun to shape. wiper shaft recess holds water. What was DR P thinking when they designed this into the car? I also droped the ventilation fan box as not to paint the leaf screen white. I like the look of teh black screen under the white painted ventilation intake grill

[sean_V8_914]

[sean_V8_914]

pile o' 914 nuggets

[sean_V8_914]

don't be scared, take that rocker panel off and look. WOW, am I lucky! Battery tray center was 1/2 gone but frome under tray was OK. I POR 15'd it all. POR-15 says it is impervious to battery acid. I am currently conducting a test sample cause I dont believe it yet.

[sean_V8_914]

dont forget to clean out all those little drain holes! I poked them then blew them out with 125 psi. I also did this 8 years ago when I bought the car

[sean_V8_914]

I'll be down in Green valley for xmass

[woodman]

Sean, did you paint that outdoors? If so, before the fires I presume. Looks great!

[sean_V8_914]

HVLP gun (thanks Scott) in my driveway, . no overspray, 9 am, bugs love the fresh paint, they hovered over it. some landed (wet sandable bugs) I sprayed it one week before teh fires & D&G