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Hi all,can't thanks everyone on this forum enough for all the advise on painting my car. It turned out better than I expected considering it was painted in a shop with only a good spray mask. Relatively bug free in last April here in Colorado. I ended up with 4 coats of Deltron Acapulco Blue and then 4 and 4 coats of SPI 4000. I've since sanded and polished maybe half of that off and it looks great.
So now a year+ later I need to paint the semi-gloss black panel on the hood and cowl. I finally found the PPG paint code for the semi-gloss. DDL9423 according to the NPD catalog. I have zero experience painting semi-gloss so I'm asking for pointers on this. My idea is to lightly sand the hood and spray two Coats of 4000 clear and then in a day apply the stencils for the blackout area. Spray a couple of coats of the semi-Gloss, they say spray it dry, then pull the stencils.
Great! I just found out DDL has been discontinued. The PPG guy said i could add flattening agent to a black to get the right sheen but that sounds kind of hit or miss for one hood. I think I read that it takes a couple of days for the amount of gloss to show? Is there a Semi-gloss black in a can? Not a gallon can, a quart would do a dozen hoods. If the gloss turns out really off I can always spray clear over it but that's not what I really want.
Thanks again for all the help.
So now a year+ later I need to paint the semi-gloss black panel on the hood and cowl. I finally found the PPG paint code for the semi-gloss. DDL9423 according to the NPD catalog. I have zero experience painting semi-gloss so I'm asking for pointers on this. My idea is to lightly sand the hood and spray two Coats of 4000 clear and then in a day apply the stencils for the blackout area. Spray a couple of coats of the semi-Gloss, they say spray it dry, then pull the stencils.
Great! I just found out DDL has been discontinued. The PPG guy said i could add flattening agent to a black to get the right sheen but that sounds kind of hit or miss for one hood. I think I read that it takes a couple of days for the amount of gloss to show? Is there a Semi-gloss black in a can? Not a gallon can, a quart would do a dozen hoods. If the gloss turns out really off I can always spray clear over it but that's not what I really want.
Thanks again for all the help.