I'm strongly considering adding a drift kit some time this summer as I'm going to be having my car repainted. To save on the cost and down time, I'm going to do all the major prep work myself, all the sanding, filling, primer, everything. I'm going to have the car sprayed by a professional because even though I have the equipment, I don't have a sterile environment to spray the base/clear. I can live with a little dust during the prep but paint isn't cheap and I only want to do this once. Anyway, I've never mounted a body kit before, and I'm wondering what kind of prep work I can expect for the kit itself. Will all the pieces fit or is there a lot of things I'll likely need to do? What about the surface quality? Is there going to be a lot of sanding and filling there too? I'm leaving myself a full 3 days for prep work, 5 at the most. What do you guys think?
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Anyone?
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Do you have any previous experience with body work/repair? What are you using to prime?
I know a lot of shops won't touch the work if it has been prepped by someone outside the shop, so make sure that wherever you take it will work on it...
Yes I do. I've done work on motorcycles and other small projects, and the techniques are pretty much the same, this is just on a larger scale. I'm actually using a friend's equipment but I'm using PPG products (primer, sealer, paint) because I've used their stuff before and I've always been happy with it. The paint gun is from DeVilbiss I think, but it's a gravity feed. For metal work I'm having my friend help because I can't weld worth a damn. I'll be doing everything else before we take the car in. I've already talked to the place that's going to spray the car, and they're fine with all this. The color is going to be Nissan Midnight Purple Pearl, and I believe Nissan uses PPG at the factory, but if not I can probably get the code and have it mixed.
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search for how to install a body kit, its easy
Johnathan (Der Schlafwanderer) wrote: but it's a gravity feed.
You say that like gravity feed is a bad thing? lol I'd take gravity to syphon feed any day
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Johnathan (Der Schlafwanderer) wrote: but it's a gravity feed.
You say that like gravity feed is a bad thing? lol I'd take gravity to syphon feed any day
LOL. No, I don't mean it that way. I just hear a lit of crap from people because I use gravity feed, but I'm an airbrush artist, and I'm kind of fond of the gravity guns because that's how my air brush works. I've heard that the other guns are better, but I stick to what I know. I'm young but I'm old school. My art teacher in high school builds hot rods in his spare time and he taught me pretty much everything I know, and that's how I learned. Old school.
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Well, I've looked around and there's a lot of places where the full kit is like 350-450, depending on where I look. I spent some time on the Gravana site this weekend trying to do some research on them and their products, and they have the kit. So does Racerwheel.com and a ton of other places. Honestly, they all seem like the same kit to me, but I don't know which is why I'm asking. If there's a lot of prep, fine, I just want to make sure I leave plenty of time so I'm not doing the "Overhaulin' Chip Foose Day 3 Boogie" on Wednesday when it has to be in the booth on Friday.
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well i am happy some one see`s the light and is using ppg products
lol, you don`t need to be in a hospital room to prep or paint a car lol
fiberglass kitsa will always have allot of prep work
i know my self and the shops i worked for would never ever take some one`s else car if they did it them selves to much of a head ache allot more work and can get very expensive
and yes most imports use ppg`s dbc system
can i haz bondo
Johnathan (Der Schlafwanderer) wrote:[quote=¤§Fallen Angel§¤]Johnathan (Der Schlafwanderer) wrote: but it's a gravity feed.
You say that like gravity feed is a bad thing? lol I'd take gravity to syphon feed any day
LOL. No, I don't mean it that way. I just hear a lit of crap from people because I use gravity feed, but I'm an airbrush artist, and I'm kind of fond of the gravity guns because that's how my air brush works. I've heard that the other guns are better, but I stick to what I know. I'm young but I'm old school. My art teacher in high school builds hot rods in his spare time and he taught me pretty much everything I know, and that's how I learned. Old school.
I like the gravity feed guns myself. I'd LOVE to learn how to airbrush, that's the whole reason I got into body and paintwork to begin with. Someone who owned a body shop seen my art work, and was like "did you ever think about doing airbrushing on cars?" I was like "yeah that would be freakin awesome!!!". He told me to come to his shop on Monday and he'd teach me everything I needed to know. Unfortunately, I never got to toy around with the airbrush much
I also learned "old school", but learned some "new school" at another shop I worked at.
Check this out:
http://www.hotrodder.com/gbnd/
This is my old art teacher's car. He built this in his garage when I was in high school and I spent a ton of my time at his house learning what I know on this very car. eight years later and it still looks like this. The man is an absolute genius, and all the awards he has for this car shows it. He just built a shop near his house to do this sort of thing and I'm actually considering having him spray my car.
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Well, you won't know what work you will need to do until you test fit the kit.
I have installed several different kits from generic $250 up to high end $1500+,
the least troubled kit I did was a $300 Ebay kit.
Usually higher end nonfiberglass kits are better fitting then glass ones, but not always the case.
