6 week timeline to complete car - What am I missing?

[kortensi]

Day 21
2K Primer on everything
- Car
- Doors
- Hood
- T-tops
- Wiper doors
- Headlight buckets
- Accessories
Epoxy Primer on egg crates


I don't have many pics of her in primer.

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Day22
Sanded primer with 220
- Front half of car
- T-tops
- Wiper doors
- Headlight buckets
- Rear vent grills
- Accessories

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Day 23
Sanded rear of car with 220

Sanded with 400:
- headlight buckets
- Wiper doors
- Rear vent grills
- Accessories

 

[kortensi]

Day 24
Sanded primer with 220 and 400 on:
- Driver door
- Hood

Sprayed 4 sample colors on test hood.

I am deciding between Viper Blue and Lemans Blue as the main color and the metallic grey and the alabaster as a stripe.

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Day 25
Sprayed clear on test hood

Sanded primer to 400 on:
- Both doors
- Hood
- T-Tops
- Head lights
- Front half of car

Order placed with Wilcox
Order placed for sealer
Order placed for paint

:cheers: Time for a beer.

KO

 

[AutoRodGirl]

Looking Good! Can't wait to see some paint on it!

 

[Chad.S]

Nice progress!!!

 

[kortensi]

Day 26
Left, right and center Front Grills cleaned up, taped and painted

Sanded primer to 400 on:
- rear half of car

Sanded primer to 600 on:
- T-Tops
- Head lights
- headlight buckets
- Wiper doors
- Rear vent grills
- Accessories

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Day 27
Sanded primer to 600 on:
- Doors
- Car

Hood frame re-aligned to better fit

Day 28
Sanded primer to 600 on hood
Filled hood divots
Sanded filler on hood
Removed leaky trans pan

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Day 29
Recoated Primer on all spots that sanded through
Replaced leaky shifter linkage seal on transmission
Hammered the transmission pan lip flat
Reinstalled transmission pan and gasket
Refilled ATF
Re-primed egg crates

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Day 30
Drained oil and changed filter
Removed and cleaned valve covers
Installed new gaskets and reinstalled valve covers to hopefully fix oil leak

Sanded egg crates to 220
Sanded everything else to 600

Day 30 1/2 (Saturday)
Pulled down all of the plastic sheeting from epoxy and primer
Swept out the garage
Put up new plastic sheeting
Washed the car, t-tops, wiper doors, rear vents, gas caps

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Day 31
Washed - Hood, doors, head light buckets, head light assemblies and accessories
Vette back up on jack stands for painting
Re-taped new paper on everything
Finished taping the plastic sheeting
Hung the doors for painting
Hung everything else for painting


It's like a scene out of Dexter.

 

[AutoRodGirl]

I was thinking it looked like Dexter! I didn't want to say it...LOL

 

[Chad.S]

Lol. it does!! That's a lot of plastic!!

 

[crashtech]

I was never that fastidious when I used to paint in my garage, it's fascinating to see what a motivated individual can do. I like it.

 

[kortensi]

Day 32
Egg crates sanded to 400
Re-masked the egg crates
Wiped everything down with wax and grease remover in preparation for sealer.


Day 33
Worked at Habitat for Humanity all day
Sprayed epoxy sealer on everything in the evening.

Sorry about the quality of the pictures. Not sure what my camera phone is doing. Maybe it didn't like the fumes.

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Day 34

I sprayed 3 coats of paint for the white stripe (It's actually called Alabaster)

I masked off the area for the stripe. This part took me just over 6 hours to lay out the stripes.

I then sprayed 3 coats of the Lemans Blue as the base on the rest of the car.

These are the paint codes that I used.


image [year] manuf model paint color name code sample GM code Ditzler PPG Dupont Sherwin Williams comment


G B Y 2006 Chrysler Alabaster P61, 960 C* 903308 64434

G B Y 2007 GM Corvette Lemans Blue 19 C* ** S ** WA933L 6232 WA993L/67 66850


Sorry about the quality of the pictures. Not sure what my phone is doing.

Here it is with the color on. Clear comes tomorrow.

 

[kortensi]

Day 35

Sprayed 4 coats of clear on everything.

These pics are from the next day after it had a chance to dry overnight.

I think it came out OK for someone who has never done this before.

Big thanks to Barry and Chad and Kate for all of the help that they gave me. I really could not have done this as well as I did with out their input and help.
I really really appreciate it.

So if anyone asks what it takes for a novice to paint their car, you can always point them to this thread and let them read it to get an idea of what it takes.

 

[keith]

Looks great. This has been fun watching and reading. You have done a great job documenting and sharing your project.

Ya done Good!

 

[Joe's Notchback]

Looks good!

 

[Chad.S]

Nice work!!