Advise on trunk painting

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JIM4

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Painting a 67 mustang convertible . I have the car taken apart. I want to paint the trunk, jambs, the whole body at once. What is the way you would do it? Trunk first then jambs then body? Jambs first then trunk, body? The problem I am having in my head is I have to make so many coats. Sealer 1, bc 4, clear 5. I can’t see any way I won’t hit the edge of something with the gun, or drag the hose ( even though it’s over my shoulder) into something. That trunk is small and my car is up at waist level. I thought about painting the trunk and jambs first but the I have to mask off and worried I might not have enough paint.
So, back to the original question. How would you guys do it all at once? Or how did you do it?

Thanks

JIM
 
Four coats of base and 5 coats of clear in a trunk seems excessive. Are you planning to cut and buff yout trunk and jambs?
 
Color is Acapulco blue code D. Good catch Hutton, no that much in the trunk 1 sealer, 3 bc, 2-3 clear I guess. Not really sure how much in the trunk. But Ford did paint that area. How do you do it?

Thanks
 
I painted the one Mustang I built on the rotisserie so can’t offer much guidance here. I hate back taping jambs and avoid it like the plague.
 
I thought I could back mask where the wind lace goes at the doors and inside the trunk lip. A plan is starting to come two mind!what if I paint the whole body no trunk and no jambs until the body is done? Then mask off body and do trunk and jambs?see any problems with that?
 
The trouble is the hard edge. I like to paint the whole shell in one session. You could likely do the trunk in a separate session but I would do the jambs and body in one session.

There are many ways to do this. I’m just saying what works for me.
 
Well that makes sense. Paint the trunk last, paint the body and jambs at same time. Just mask off the car and do the trunk last. Thanks for the advice. How many coats would you do in the trunk???
 
chevman said:
Ford put a big hole in the trunk floor to make painting it easy. If you have a stool with casters, you could sit on it and easily paint the trunk first. You have the 1/4 panel edges right there for masking tape.
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I am worried about not having enough paint to start in the trunk. I have 2 gallons plus 2 quarts sprayable. But I need to paint everything. Dash, doors, trunk, under hood, under trunk lid plus car. Think that’s enough?
 
If it were me I'd do underside of trunk lid as well as the hood if it gets body color and inside of trunk itself. If doing the inside of the doors do them also. See how much color was used under trunk lid and hood. Should be close to same amount as to spray top of them. Then do rest of body including the body jambs with tops of trunk and hood as well as outside of the doors. If it were me I would have at least 2 gallons of paint before I started spraying. Ymmv.

Having left over paint allows you to respray something if it needs to be done.
 
elwood said:
If it were me I'd do underside of trunk lid as well as the hood if it gets body color and inside of trunk itself. If doing the inside of the doors do them also. See how much color was used under trunk lid and hood. Should be close to same amount as to spray top of them. Then do rest of body including the body jambs with tops of trunk and hood as well as outside of the doors. If it were me I would have at least 2 gallons of paint before I started spraying. Ymmv.

Having left over paint allows you to respray something if it needs to be done.
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I have 2 1/2 gallons of sprayable paint. Thats enough don’t you think? With a little left over.
 
A lot has to do with air pressure, overlap , etc. I usually write down ounces used per session or panel. That way I don't mix too much of anything.
 
RayH said:
I believe it’s posted somewhere on here but remember 8 oz rts per panel each coat.
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Ray thanks for the advise, but you just sent me down the rabbit hole. Per panel? In my mind panel = section. So I counted up 11 panels (I know that is wrong). I counted the body as two, hood as two, trunk lid as two and each other section as one. So by that calculation I will need 352 ozs of paint. I have only 320. Short a quart with some left over.
 
JIM4 said:
Ray thanks for the advise, but you just sent me down the rabbit hole. Per panel? In my mind panel = section. So I counted up 11 panels (I know that is wrong). I counted the body as two, hood as two, trunk lid as two and each other section as one. So by that calculation I will need 352 ozs of paint. I have only 320. Short a quart with some left over.
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Is that with four coats of base? Three is usually enough if applied over a correct sealer color.
 
I did a 73 nova all jams first doors had weld on hinges I even paint rockers while on scissor lift then when painting exterior of car I fold tape to do a soft edge right to the edge and seam on rocker work good no over spray and just hand rub edge only thing is a lot of masking on jams I did it that way because I used my friends spray booth and didn't want to move parts
 
the gun man has a tube vedio on folding tape and masking jam watch that it will help show you how to do it
 
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