Dawg316 2000 H22 Black Coupe *The HOOPTY*

Connie said:

I'll keep my eye out for that stuff.
I'm probably going to pick up a clean black F23 01 sedan this week for $300, but the hood has a huge dent where a tree branch fell on it. So I'm going to try again painting the hood on my green parts car black if I get it.

Gotta go pick up some 600 and some primer. I've got all the other paper down to 400. I've been using the near-match rattle cans that are available in factory colours at Canadian Tire, but it's $8 for a half-size can of Nighthawk Black Pearl (the colour of both of the black cars), and I'll probably need a good 8-10 cans to get the hood covered properly. I used 2 on the fender and mirror, and wished I had 3. The colour matched almost perfectly on the fender and mirror on Midnight once it was dry.....had me worried as it went on super-blue and metallic, but that went away once it was dry and the match was awesome. Just need to get my rattle can clearcoat skills to improve, and a nice flat hood should be a good place to practice.

I used Ace Hardware gloss black for the first coat, and the colour was blatantly wrong. Anyone know where to get halfway decent factory colours in a rattle can for a more reasonable price?

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Rusty Accord said:

You need to find a Nason paint dealer. For the cost of your 8 cans, you could get a pint of paint, and some activator and shoot it with a compressor. Then for a 50 bucks clear coat it.

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Connie said:

Never heard of Nason; we have a TSS Top Shop here in Barrie that's a PPG dealer, though.
Doesn't paint use a lot of air though?
My compressor isn't huge, it's fine for the impact or air hammer, but it has a hard time with rotary tools; I end up waiting for it to refill for minutes at a time if I'm using the air grinder. I would need to upgrade, plus buy all the painting accessories. Not to mention I've never painted anything with a compressor in my life....I might try my hand sometime this summer, it probably is as good a time as any to get upgraded, especially with the amount of cars that pass through my hands.

I'll watch some videos on youtube and figure it out lol

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Rusty Accord said:

Nason is a low cost Axalta (formerly Dupont) paint brand. They offer a good cheap alternative to the higher end paints that are out there. I've actually got a couple of test sample vehicles doing winter testing on this side of the river, to find out how well it really holds up. We used to have a PPG dealer here, but I only used the high end stuff from him (doing resto work). I still like their products, but I could do without their prices. Damn they're expensive. They're also the OEM paint supplier to Honda.
As for a compressor, a 3 gallon tank with a 1/2 or 3/4 hp motor will do spraying. You can always add an 2nd tank for air volume if you need it. It won't run air tools for body work though. For that kind of stuff you need to go bigger. At least 7 hp and 80 gallon is my minimum requirement. I've got an old CH that's a V4 7.5 hp 80 gallon that I've been using since 1998, and I love it. A buddy of mine just bought an Ingersoll Rand in a similar size. The trick is to build a room for it, so it doesn't eat shop space, or throw dust around.
These days, most spray guns are HVLP (High Volume Low Pressure), so you can actually get away with using a smaller compressor.
I hope this helps.

P.S. I think PPG has a plant in Barrie Ont.

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