I've had a good little break from the car, but I can't leave well enough alone. Got a new hotrod to play with and I ended up doing some work on the Convertible over the weekend and today. Spent alot of time cleaning the garage too. It was a mess. Still have a ways to go on that too.
ANyways, don't they look like they are going to play nice together? :love7:
Have no fear Johnny Longgone. I'm back on the convertible. I have decided to haul it to the media blaster this Thursday. The doors, fenders and trunk lid will come off at the blasting shop. They are going to soda blast the car, wash the car down with a neutralizer, then use garnet to give the bare metal some texture. Then they will lay down 3 coats of BLACK Valspar epoxy primer. BTW Valspar is who makes House of Kolor paints, so it is really good stuff. These guys did my hood and the ppg basecoat of blue that's on the underside of the hood now is on there like cement. No adhesion issues there.
Oh yeah, no need to warn me about the soda blasting. These guys really know what they are doing as far as prepping the car and neutralizing the soda. Plus they really clean the piss out of it. I know about the paint companies (PPG, Dupont, etc) not approving soda, but that's just them covering their own azz'z. It really is a nice process if done properly.
I will have an absolutely clean sealed canvas for the bodywork. I will be doing all the bodywork myself with high quality products. No fuc king around with cheap shi t and bad prep techniques. :thebirdm: I'm going for it full tilt, just like I did on the rest of the car.
Knowing me (not trying to be arrogant) I really think my paint will come out 100% better than the asss hole that had my car last and wasted almost 2 years of my time. I have 2 little parts to pick up from him and I'll probably never speak to his dumb azz again except for when I show him the paint job I did myself in my garage. Should be better than anything he's ever done in his entire life. The prick still thinks it was old product. What a moron!!! So this is a little bit of a rant but I'm
fired up after this weekend of scraping a thousand dollars worth of paint and a hundred hours or so of my own time. He's lucky I didn't sue his azz.
Rant off. Back to my baby.
Here's what I did this weekend and is what got me even more fired up. I scrapped the whole car down to the most adherent level. This is not saying much really. What I found under the self-etching primer was a major eye-opener. There were tiny little specs of red oxide under the etching primer. My paint would have been toast after a few years with bubbles everywhere and rust. This dipshitt couldn't even do this part right. Just goes to show you that etching primer can start doing damage pretty quickly. Epoxy is the only way to go nowadays. There's no reason to not use it unless you are cheaping out. This is a total blessing because I will now have a very very solid foundation that I probably won't have to worry about even if I screw up painting the car myself. At least my mistakes can be fixed much easier than having to strip the whole car to bare metal again. Sorry the rant came back on. LOL.
Observe all the levels of screwed up paint.
Here is how she sits right know. I pulled the dash and windshield out today and wrapped the motor in plastic and put down canvas drop cloth to keep out the blast media. The engine bay paint seems to stick which is pretty amazing to me right now. I just couldn't see pulling to motor out. That was pure hell the first time getting all that stuff to fit. I can live with the engine bay the way it is. I still need to pull out the front seat and change the wheels. She be picked up on Thursday and should be back in a week. This time she'll be in black epoxy primer. Hell I could do the whole ratrod thing for a little while if I wanted. LOL.
So guys, I'm back in the saddle and ready to for round 2. :blackeye:
Stay tuned.
