Camaro SS Bandit Conversion

[1JEWLDSSRS]

Lookin great sir!!!

[hesster]

It warmed up today enough to get more painting in.
This round was Priming the Fenders, sanded and added another few coats to the Extractors, and the Hood underside and Shaker Scoop outer. It is amazing how the Primer shoots shiny with a ton of OP, but drys almost dead flat ready to sand. Nice Stuff.

Completed the order for the Forgeline Snowflake Wheels today. 20" x 9.5" fronts, 20 x 11" rears. Blew any budget with these in the wheels, but they are awesome. Thanks again Forum guy's for picking the nosebleed expensive one's. You can buy a decent starter car for the price of these.
Then customized them to include adding in the correct 1977 Red Bird Insert into the machined TA3 Center Cap. Now need to decide on Tires - 275's front, prob 305s or 315's rear. Brand TBD.

Assessed the EOS ZL1 Phastek Rockers fit to the OEM Rockers, after sitting in the Box for awhile. They are, hmmmmm, really cheezy, and returning them. Can't imagine how in hell to make them fit well and adhere to the OEM Rockers, the Web Videos are comical. Moving on with this one, no chance using someting like this. I will stay with the repainted OEM rockers or get the correct Zl1 replacements that snap in and replace the OEM's.

Plan is to Prime the remaining big parts, have a wet sanding party, and shoot BC/CC, or more Primer and sanding until perfect if necessary to ensure the Top Coats don't require excessive work. So may take a few Prime and Sand iterations to get the parts ready for BC/CC. Will not compromise this.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by hesster

It warmed up today enough to get more painting in.
This round was Priming the Fenders, sanded and added another few coats to the Extractors, and the Hood underside and Shaker Scoop outer. It is amazing how the Primer shoots shiny with a ton of OP, but drys almost dead flat ready to sand. Nice Stuff.

Completed the order for the Forgeline Snowflake Wheels today. 20" x 9.5" fronts, 20 x 11" rears. Blew any budget with these in the wheels, but they are awesome. Thanks again Forum guy's for picking the nosebleed expensive one's. You can buy a decent starter car for the price of these.
Then customized them to include adding in the correct 1977 Red Bird Insert into the machined TA3 Center Cap. Now need to decide on Tires - 275's front, prob 305s or 315's rear. Brand TBD.

Assessed the EOS ZL1 Phastek Rockers fit to the OEM Rockers, after sitting in the Box for awhile. They are, hmmmmm, really cheezy, and returning them. Can't imagine how in hell to make them fit well and adhere to the OEM Rockers, the Web Videos are comical. Moving on with this one, no chance using someting like this. I will stay with the repainted OEM rockers or get the correct Zl1 replacements that snap in and replace the OEM's.

Plan is to Prime the remaining big parts, have a wet sanding party, and shoot BC/CC, or more Primer and sanding until perfect if necessary to ensure the Top Coats don't require excessive work. So may take a few Prime and Sand iterations to get the parts ready for BC/CC. Will not compromise this.

Those Forgelines are gonna be the bomb....Might be able to start a small country for that budget...

[hesster]

More Primer - Hood, Rockers, Deck Lid, Dove Tail Spoiler.
Wet sand sessions next. More Primer after initial sanding to be assessed.

[hesster]

Fascias primered.
It barely warmed up enough late in the day to get them done. Shot them at 7:00 PM, with a few beers. They took alot of Paint, already went through a Gallon, may need to get another quart for touch ups after wet sanding everything.

The Black Primer really shows all of the imperfections in the RIM Fascias, some are easily fixed with spot putty, some of the minor form distortion areas I will probably not try to fix. Sometimes Bondo or Fiberglass filler creates more issues on a flexible part, so I will have to make a call on this. Note the small shallow "divot" in the Rear Fascia in the 3rd pic. Never saw this until it got Primered, so may fix it, maybe not depending on how much it bothers me.

Although the lighting is really good in the Barn, it is hard to see the Paint Coverage when shooting Black, so the occasional run in the Primer happens. You have to spray it just until it looks wet, and stop, as any more will sag or run. The good part is these are easily wet sanded out without a trace of them ever happening. Not so with the Top Coats.

Also reshot the Spoiler Winglets and the Engine cover after wet sanding them. Everything needs to be sanded dead flat with 800 grit so there is no orange peel before BC/CC. A PIA, as it is so easy to sand right through the Primer. A little sand through is OK, but always risks delamination of the top coats, in other words, bubbles, blisters, flaking, and the like.

This is especially true of parts already painted like the Dove Tail Spoiler. If you see any of that nice Red Jewel color from a sand through, well, it will need more primer cause Top Coats will eat into old paint and sometimes wrinkle.

Although the (5) box Fans set on crank evacuates the overspray cloud quickly, there is still lots of it on the floor and, well, everywhere. So will blow it all out,then mop and wipe stuff down.

Then a ton of wet sanding, touch ups, and on with the Top Coats. Weather permitting, as today is 55 degrees and rainy. I am not going to rush the process, as you always have to make time to redo any issues.

[Ashen 6.2]

Looking good sir! Wish I had your patience and willingness to do the body work!