After doing the practice run with the interior it was time to move on to the engine bay. The 99 engine bay is not an easy thing to paint well. There are all sorts of nooks and crannies that are difficult to reach. Especially the “canyon” between the wheel well …
It looks like there is hope for my goal of getting the car painted this summer 😀 The prep work is finally done so I can move on to laying some Cardinal Red on the Turbo. Unfortunately the recipe for the Cardinal Red was not available anymore in the paint …
Paint prep is the stage in a restoration that I personally find the most tedious. It’s basically just doing the same thing over and over again until you finally get something acceptable. But at the same time it’s also probably the most important thing to get right. Imperfections and errors …
We are finally at the Metal prep & Primer stage with the Turbo. We used a standard 2k Epoxy primer. Basecoat will be water based color and over that some clearcoat. This will be the first time for me spraying metallics or water base color so I’m looking forward to …
