Originally Posted by My Honda Is Slow

what paint did you use? household? latex?

Originally Posted by fastforward

I used to spray the crap out of everything. These are some tips I learned over the years. A spray can paint job on a wide surface like a car is not going to look like a real paint job no mater what you do. But here is a couple of tricks to get the most out of your rattle can;

1. Paint on a cool, prepped, and dry surface.
2. Don't paint on a humid day or in direct sunlight.
3. Always prep your surface, make sure its clean, light sand it to create a good rough contact for paint to stick and then wash with mild dishsoap and water. Dishsoap breaks down oils that are bad for paint sticking.
4. Place your spray can in super hot, but not boiling water; this melts paint particles and excites the paint can's propellent so that spray comes out strong and even.
5a. Spray light even powder coats first. Mask off stuff with blue painters tape. The powder coat will ensure that the seam between tape and metal is sealed. If you spray wet right away it will seep under your tape.
5b. Try using a primer first so that your color is even. Experiment with grey, black or red primer to see what looks best as a base coat.
6. After powder coating, spray heavier coats holding spray can closer and overlap spray patterns while spraying back and forth in the direction of body panels. Eventually you'll apply a heavy wet coat last, but let previous coats dry so you don't get runny dripping paint.
7. routinely clean out spray nozzle as paint will accumulate in the hole and cause it to spatter.
8. Shake can often.
9. Let your car dry near a big fan to keep debris, dust, and bugs from settling in your wet paint.
10. When paint isn't tacky anymore, let the sun bake it. this will help to harden the paint.

Let the paint cure for several days. It might feel dry, but trust me, the undercoats are still soft.

if you want to get really good, after several days you could try to wet sand the paint with a fine emory cloth and water, then apply a rattle can clear coat.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by sfr002

We sprayed my friends car for shits bright orange took about 50 cans of spray and we didnt do a clear coat or anything looked ok i guess but it was bright orange so.... And your fingers will be tired as hell and if you do it in your garage it gets all over the place lol

Originally Posted by .Patrick.

moparts: paint job on a budget!?
scroll down to 69chargeryeehaa's post. you might try that, i saw a ranchero that was painted like that, it didnt look bad at all.

also google "$50 paint job"

Originally Posted by Rachel the Truth

Well the primer looks pretty good so far. Interested to see how it turns out when you get the paint on....


BTW - pics?

Originally Posted by Hater

Thats Rustoleum paint, I believe. But theres plenty of info on the web on doing it.