paint jobs

[ledge]

Guys
There is only a couple of things that you do differently with a glass body
as opposed to an ally or steel body.

First
which is a bonus you can block back the gel coat a bit so you dont need as much high fill primer. Dont go through or you will need to re gel those areas.
Second
You need to apply an etch that is designed to go on to fibreglass.
we would do this before any bog would go on.
Third
aplly filler to bad areas and file back.

Then you just approach it like a normal steel or ally body .
High fill and block
But all thes products are two pack to help resolve shrink back and the glass
moving to much. Then leave it in high fill for as long as you can before final block and colour.
Hope this helps

Regards
Paul

[stiffy]

My 2 cents worth,


When I modified the Cobra a few years back I was shocked at the price of the materials. It was over $2k, I asked if I would need a trailer!!!! I got a few box's of stuff

The cost of paint varies depending on brand.....


Different bodies have different finish qualities, some of the older bodies require over 200 hours to get right!!!! No one works for free..........
you get what you pay for.

IMO the paint/interior finish of a Cobra is what makes the car.
You can have a $2k motor or a $20k motor, who cares its what it looks like that counts.

Therefore it depends on what you want with your car, i.e. Street Car, Race Car or just the experience of building something.

STIFFY

[Aussie Mike]

I bought a bunch of paint prep materials on the weekend It was all really good quality. House of Color KD2000 high fill etc. I spent about $800 and I still havent bought the base coat or clear coat. That's just to get it into primer.

I'm filling the seams etc at the moment. Then the whole body will get 3 coats of spray polyester. Blocking, blocking and more blocking before it gets a coat of KD2000 hight fill. More blocking and then a coat of sealer befor the base coat and clear coat goes on.

I'm going to do all the prep at home but I'm tempted to hire a booth for the base coats and clear coats.

Cheers

[cameron02]

Hi Damo,
$1500 and painted in one afternoon.
This means zero prep, just painting it. You will be amazed how many defects will suddenly show up once the car is a consistant colour.

Most of the $ go into the prep.

Whatever you do make sure you bake the car in an oven before painting it. Otherwise bubbles may rise to the surface on the first sunny day. Then you car will look like swiss cheese...and thats no gouda.......see what I did there

If you are doing the prep yourself and dont want to spend the money on an oven then at least leave it outside on a hot sunny day and maybe put some plastic over it to keep the heat in.

My cobra is currently getting painted. The painter is doing an excellent job on the prep. Its a lot of work and he has had to bake the car more than once.