Interior Paint

What have people had good luck with in automotive paint types for interior of a rally car. Not Rustoleum or spray paint, but real auto paint?

Acrylic urethane, Acrylic enamel, etc.

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Grant Hughes

Search this on SS. There was a pretty good thread about this last year, when I asked the same thing.



Eli

Whats wrong with rustoleum etc in a can? I was thinking of refreshing my interior with it. Is REAL auto paint just ALOT better? I could also get auto paint colour matched and in a spray can locally but it is around twice the price. I suppose you have a spray gun Grant? I've been thinking of getting one but I get really decent results from a can just from using it so much.

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Gone fishing

Actually, all I could find on Specialstage referred to cheap options in non-auto paint.

Yeah, I got myself a really nice spray gun for my birthday. I have about 4-5 gallons of yellow, red, and gunmetal grey left from about a year or two ago, and am getting ready to order some white for the interior.

I've done the rattle can method a few times. Just have never thought it actually looks good, just better than nothing. $20 in rattle can paint or $75-100 in automotive is worth the little extra for better quality and durability.

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Grant Hughes

I have been happy with rustoleum in the can and using a spray gun to apply it. If you thin it down and apply multiple coats it haas a decent shine ot it. honestly it looks better than the outside of the rally car but then most people paint that with automotive paint two. When people ask now I tell them we were going for the rat rod look not that we were to cheap to spring for a real paint job.

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Matt Smith

Racing in glorious black and red

My daily life is a Saab story (sold!)

Painted the inside of our car with thinned rustoleum shot from a gun. I regret that now. It looked great for a couple months but now is dull and chipped. I used POR-15 "hardnose paint" in the wheel wells and its proved to be almost bullet proof. I would use this inside the car next time too.



- Luke





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/23/2007 06:36PM by Saabfarm.

POR-15 can't be beat for durability - thats my experience for sure.
Real auto will - in my experience - outlast stuff like Rustoleum - but not by much. Remember how it's being abused...

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Brgrds
Brian

You guys have made me ask this on specialstage. Thanks.

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Grant Hughes

So what paint did you decide on? Or do we need to check for your anouncement on specialstage? LOL

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Gone fishing

For interior I'm going to try automotive urethane put into an aerosol spray can. Primer followed by white.
Exterior I'll probably spray with traditional paint gun.

I want to do the interior in my garage so I can start running brake lines. Once car has brakes I'll move it to the back of Salta Motorsports/Checkpoint Racing and paint it in their back lot.

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Grant Hughes

NoCoast Wrote:
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> For interior I'm going to try automotive urethane
> put into an aerosol spray can. Primer followed by
> white.
> Exterior I'll probably spray with traditional
> paint gun.

Grant, seems there's always places you cant get a gun OR a can into, and with a can maintain the correct orientation, specially if there's a shitload of tubes going all over.
The simple old paintbrush should not be forgotten, it can get anywhere.

The really large areas inside, can't see why you'd want spray cans for that.
Spray gun worked fine in mine.
I did the spray while it was in the rotisserie turned 90, like on the doors, painted everything I could then flipped it.
>
> I want to do the interior in my garage so I can
> start running brake lines. Once car has brakes
> I'll move it to the back of Salta
> Motorsports/Checkpoint Racing and paint it in
> their back lot.
>
> Grant Hughes
> www.nocoastmotorsports.net
> Denver, CO

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