Paint Job Spec

[Paul Henley]

Hi all, I'm about to go looking for a bare metal respray for my 240z. It will be a repaint of the entire car/shell. Problem I have is that I don't know what spec to get a quote against. How many coats of primer/under coat/top coat/laquer should I expect a good paint job to consist of? I'm planning on a metalic silver but don't know anything about what would constitute a really good long lasting paint job compared to a back street botch job. Comments/advice please.

 

[tel240z]

need more information like are you sending it in as a complete car, any body repairs needed, has the glass and trim been removed, who is going to bare metal it and so on.

start at 4 to 5 k i should think

 

[Paul Henley]

Hi Tel
It's a total nut and bolt resto. The shell is totally stripped. The paint job will be applied in 2 stages, Stage 1 will paint the engine bay, interior and underneath. The second stage will be to apply the exterior panels it wings, doors bonnet, tailgate etc after the bulk of the car has been reassembled. Very little repairs and no welding are required. Just to be clear, I am not asking the forum as to how much they think a respray will cost. What I need to know is what constitutes a good respray? ie how many coats and what kind of coat/paint etc.
Thanks again

 

[tel240z]

Ahh in that case then
1 2 pack etch primer
2 2 pack primer
3 prepare to perfection
4 apply base coat,s plenty of coats probably about 5 litres of paint and the same of thinners
for the entire car, would advise painting all the exterior pannels at the same time to avoid
the base coat lying different
5 top quality 2 pack thinner with exellent uv light resistance after all you wouldn't want the laquer to go yellow

and of course all oven baked then mopped and burnished clay bared and finnished to a mill pond finnish

 

[Paul Henley]

Thanks Tel

A link to my 240z

slide01

 

[rallymanDP]

Underline the 'preparation' section a few times - 90% of the work goes into preparing the panels before you even get to thinking about painting them - for a good paint job, that is.
And that includes making sure that all the panel gaps ( and alignment of the front end panels in particular ) are as good as possible before you paint them.