[Steve91T]

Hey guys! I'm getting to the point where I need to paint my car. I have a black 97 SS and swapped the doors, deck lid, fenders and hood from a red 99 SS. I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos and it doesn't seem too difficult. My question isn't about details, but basically, how'd it go? Once you were done, did it end up being much harder than expected? I have a 2 car garage that I'll be doing the work in. Another question, is painting a mostly plastic car more difficult?

Any advice would be great!

[Steve91T]

Hey guys, thanks for the help.

So here's the new plan. My buddy just built my dream house with a huge shop and had a 12k two post lift and a beer fridge installed before they even moved in. He wants to build a folding paint booth in the corner of his shop and learn to paint also. Perfect.

So, he's what I'm working with.


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I still need to swap hatches with the red one that has the stock wing so I don't look like a tool driving down the road with a huge lexan spoiler.
I was going to worry about the go before the show, but it looks pretty rediculous. So paint has moved up the priority list.

So I've got a hard top panel that I pulled off the roof of a junk yard Camaro that replaces the t-tops for the track. That will be the perfect panel to practice on. I'm also going to pull all the red panels off the car and paint the back side of them black. That'll also give me a bit of practice. I can do all of that in my garage. I'll make a small paint booth out of 1x2's and plastic. Then I'll put the car back together and drive it to my buddies shop to paint the whole car.


So I know painting obviously isn't something you lean over night, so I'm planning on taking it slow. I also realize that my expectations can't be a show quality paint job after my first crack at it. Isn't the worst thing that could happen is I sand it all down and start over?


I've thought about wrapping the car and I just don't think that's for me.

Anyway, our goal is to try to get this thing done this month. So I'll keep everyone posted! Please keep the tips and tricks and opinions, good or bad,coming.

[nape]

So I know painting obviously isn't something you lean over night, so I'm planning on taking it slow. I also realize that my expectations can't be a show quality paint job after my first crack at it. Isn't the worst thing that could happen is I sand it all down and start over?


I've thought about wrapping the car and I just don't think that's for me.

Anyway, our goal is to try to get this thing done this month. So I'll keep everyone posted! Please keep the tips and tricks and opinions, good or bad,coming.

Depending on what your patience level and time allow, you can sand and paint until you're happy. From my experience, if imperfections are going to gnaw at you, you'll be way money and time ahead paying someone to do it. If I recall correctly, you already lost a chunk of your time and that's why you decided to convert back from a CMC build.

I paint my race car, but that's because I know someone is pretty much guarenteed to run into it. It's also about 5 shades of white, bad prep work, with a bunch of dust in the paint, and runs all over. It's also white because it hides more sins than most colors.

Trying to paint black as my first painting project would be a huge chunk of NOPE.