Owner built on a budget;

[Hray]

Below are some pics of painted firewall, some with flash, some without flash, depending on flash and angle of light it changes color some.

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Good progress, just waiting for clear coat to dry out some more prior to moving things around in shop.

new tubular a-arms came in today,

Process used to paint it, block sanded cowl with 80 some, moved up to 180, then primed with lacquer primer, block sanded lacquer with 320 twice, primed with PPG PCL about 4 coats total, block sanded with 320, primed again, blocked with 500, then went with dust coat of base, then medium wet base coat, then another medium wet base coat, then immediately after last medium basecoat went with another dust coat on top of still wet coat to get even layout of metalics and color, let dry to get clearcoated, upon tack cloth prior to clear found too much dust in paint, waited another half hour then sanded basecoat, then did another medium coat with top dusting, waited 40 minutes, then medium clear coat, then after 20 minutes a heavy wet coat, and now it is painted. used 14ounces of sprayable basecoat total, used about 12 ounces of sprayable clearcoat. Used U-tech brand basecoat and used Transtar euro clear to topcoat.

I will not sand and buff the firewall, will leave it just the way it is.

This is sort of the exciting part, later Ray