Brett Jenkins

I'm considering a complete repaint for my 928. Picture attached The hood has faded (I believe it's cracks in the clear), my sunroof is a shade off, and I need to repaint the right quarter after repairing fender bender damage as well, so I was considering a complete repaint instead of getting patchwork and taking the chance it is off like the sunroof.

My car is currently liney grey metallic, looks silver. Clearcoat, I assume.

I am considering doing the paint myself after practicing on a couple junkers to get the techniques down. I painted several cars back in the day but I'm sure a lot has changed since then.

Questions.

Considering the overall condition of the paint is pretty good, how should I go about preparing the car for a repaint? The ultimate would be to completely strip down to metal, but I'd like to keep the factory metal prep and avoid the time and mess of doing a compete strip. Can the current topcoat/clearcoat be sanded/roughed up and painted over? Does the clearcoat need to be stripped and then paint over the basecoat? What?

What paint, primer, clear should I use?

What size, strength compressor do I need?

Any tips on what to avoid, how to avoid paint blemishes, ie orange peel, fisheye, runs, etc?

Any suggestions on a new color? I'm partial to arena red, but that may be too extreme a change. I plan on doing door and hatch jams and as much of the engine compartment that can be done tastefully without pulling the engine.

Speaking of jams, any suggestions on how to paint them, especially the hatch without having to mask the inside of the car? Perhaps a smaller, finer spray gun?

Anything else? Anybody think I'm being foolish or biting off more than I can chew? Keep in mind, I paid $4k for this car and it has 190k miles, so it's not a museum piece or concours candidate, but I'd still like it to look nice.

Can anyone identify the color of the car below? Does anyone have a picture of an arena red 928 or good pictures of other colors that you'd suggest?

Thanks in advance for any help or comments.

Scott M.

Brett;

Got to: www.928s4.com for some arena red shots. Chris redid his S4 this color.

I like the grey widebody, not sure of the color but do you have any more info on this car??

khalloudy

wanna sell your design 90s?

Brett Jenkins

Sure, almost anything is for sale for the right offer. :-)

Brett Jenkins

Scott, I know nothing of the grey widebody, other than it's a beautiful car. I found the picture on a website that had a bunch of exotic 928's. Different colors, lots of body kits, some with lambo door, some with gull-wing doors, convertibles, etc.

rixter

the widebody almost appears to be granite green

DFWX

You are fooling yourself - big time - if you have no experience painting a car. It would make FAR more sense to fully prep it up yourself and have it repainted by a chain paint company such as miracle - and stick with original color so not to have the terrible problems of door jams, under hood, etc, etc...
Prepping a car takes A LOT of time.
If you paint it yourself, you can create a real nightmare having a thick layer of bad paint then to contend with. Painting a car takes a lot of skill and feel for it. Setting the spray nozzle to not be too wet or too dry, to lay it on thick enough to smooth but not too thick so it runs - etc, etc all take experience.
I tried to paint a couple cars some years ago (A convertable Mustang 351 and an Alfa Romero GTV2000 - nightmare results and tried over and over...)
Just pay someone else the $1,000 to do the painting. You'll be very glad you did so and it will be cheaper. A good set up for equipment will cost you that much anyway - and you don't have a paint booth.
Mark
DFWX
DFWX

sportscarclassics

Are the design 90 worth anything? I have them on my 90 GT?
Thanks
Carl