Well in keeping w/ my commitment to buy my paint, today I did just that. A gallon of 2k primer and it's required activator, a gallon of PPG acrylic enamel Competition Orange, it's activator, and a gallon of reducer, and a one qt "pkg" of Ditzler hot rod satin black. Total price......450.00.
Of all the standard, non-metallic colors in the spectrum, red is the most expensive. Evidently, Competition Orange is next in line. Prices ranges from acceptable, (the 150.00 a gallon I paid) to freakin' insane.... 315.00 for Dupont Chromabase. I don't know what the premium mfg's put in their paint to make it that much better,....but it has to have some precious metal or something I'm thinkin'.
These last two days I've been getting filty (again). I already did the floor in front of the axle, but still had some welding left over in the back in the wheel tubs, and frame rail reinforcement before I could finish painting that.
Day one was welding day. More of me getting my ass burned up w/ little molten balls. Today was paint day.
Now every other time I've bought the rattle can bedliner product, it's always been the same RustOleum stuff. Today, I bought two cans of the sorriest, biggest piles of steaming dog s hit ever packaged and branded as paint.
Duplicolor makes a water based product in a 16.5 oz can that was "on sale" at Advance for 2 for 20.00. At the time I didn't know it was water based and it didn't matter anyway.They call it "bed Armour"
They need to change that.
They need to call it can of water based dog sh it that spits, spatters runs, and glops black sh it everywhere but where you want it.
If it was just one defective can, I coulda lived w/ that, but both of these things started sputtering almost immediately. I figured it was by design, and that they wanted the texture to be coarse, but after 10 seconds of spraying, there was a huge build up of paint dripping off the can and nozzle. I could feel little droplets hitting my face as I sprayed this crap despite my best attempt to stay out from under the spray . The floor under the car?....Black. My clothes? Black. when the cans were empty, and I drug my ass out from underneath, I went inside to see what I looked like.
I had it.
Blackne. The worst possible case.
About a thousand little specs of this crap now covered my face in a pattern around where I wore safety glasses,...almost looking like I wanted this. The only thing that I can say positive about this crap, is that it washed off w/ soap and water.
But if it didn't...............
You could call me Salt-N-Peppa.
Now that all this crap had to dry,...I moved back to the engine compartment to finish weld the remaining holes,.....(and I mean EVERY remaining hole) that was left to weld closed.
A/C? gone. Heater? gone. Clutch cable? gone. Speedo cable? gone. Evap drain? gone. Wire grommet holes for main harness? gone. Holes to mount A/C evap?. gone.
Gone, gone,gone.
I even went as far as starting to remove the pesky pinch seam that ran across the firewall,...(and actually cut two inches out) but after looking at what kind of mess that would be,....I welded that b itch right back in place.
So now, I'm grinding. Then I'm smearing on body putty, and eventually,...the engine compartment will assume it's final color. Satin Black.