painting my own car and doing my own bodywork

[imhappy]

hi everyone , i have a black solara 99 5 speed and im going to do the body work by myself. i am not an expert and i got the idea from a friend who told me about the $50 paint job. i orderered jet black from TRINITY . i bought some 6in foam rollers at walmart. i sanded down my car in some areas to the metal where i put the bondo. how is everyone else doing???

[LEE337]

Welcome to SG

Gen 1s rule!!
So your doing your own body work with paint rollers?
Why not use a gun?

Post up some pics when you get a chance.
We would like to see what your getting yourself into.

[SdeA]

Welcome to SG!

Post picture of your car progress from start to finish

[unbalancedwood]

wow, I really hope the car was really bad for you to do this.

I did it for my 500$ crx, but would never think about it for my solara

[jetbtkng]

im not going to say >>I'm a douche<<, lol..................................................

[imhappy]

i wanted to use a gun...but im low on cash and dont have a paint booth. i have been using the car to just get from A to B with a pretty decent sound system that i installed myself ( does not look professional at all )

one of my close friends is really into cars so its rubbing off on me and now i want to fix mines up.

so far all the body work is done now i just have to wait for the paint....fedex tracking said it will be here on friday.

my plans are to paint it...then lower it with ksport coilovers...which model fits on a gen1 1999 v6

[LEE337]

All that work and your gona fuk it up with $6 rollers from walmart.
Im not tryin to be an a$$ but why would you do that???
You or whoever spent all that time and money on the bodywork so why would you cheap out on the paint???

You should be able to even rent a decent gun.
Then use a friends garage for about 12-16 hrs and youll have a much much better turn-out.
Please reconsider this!!!

Frank say something dammit!

[jetbtkng]

just go to mako $300....................

[imhappy]

well i had a earl scheib paint job before and it was super duper orange peely...... my and some friends sanded the car down for days with 2000 grit sandpaper and it came out really good...so basically i know that with the roller it will come out pretty bad but after sanding and sanding it should come out pretty well. is there a solara scene??? or meetups and stuff like that???

[jetbtkng]

i dont want to get in trouble, everyone already hates me, oh phuck it, what the hell are you doing, take it to a dam cheap paint shop, spend $300 - 400, you use a roller on a wall, not a car for christs sake, jeeeeeeeeez, killing a nice car..............

[dug320]

Yes you can paint it with a roller and after a lot of sanding and re-coats it will actually look good and last

If you do all the prep yourself and then have it painted by M**co you will have a good paint job with a lot less work.

[jetbtkng]

dude i know how to paint, ive painted my harley's, and used to be a painter at gm, its going to look like >>I'm a douche<<, paint it rite, spray it................

[imhappy]

do u guys have like a monthly or weekly meet up in socal??? im in long beach. im loading up picks right now... they will be up soon

[imhappy]

im convinced...imma go buy a sprayer tmrw at harbor frieight... or craigslist...thnx for the answers guys.

[epocsirhc]

that sould be better than any thing you could do with a damn roller even if it is a crappy gun from harbor freight. My friends would never help me sand my car so you are lucky to have good friends.