what would you do?

[EScanlon]

Forget using a typical spray gun to spray POR. Even if you use their solvent/thinner to reduce the viscosity... it just does not spray... through a regular spray gun. I tried several guns, and even thinned a batch until it finally sprayed and ended up using more solvent than POR. For me that was a dead end.

It DOES level out well, especially if the temperature is warm. Humidity DOES play a very important role and I've even seen it "foam" due to excessive humidity in the air.

I brushed it on using those cheap disposable brushes available at Harbor Freight (that way no need to waste money on cleaning them up), and the only problem I had was that the brushes would sometimes shed a hair or two.

(If that is a problem, get a wire about the thickness of a large paper clip and using your utility knife try to "cut" the end off at an angle. Do that several times around the diameter of the wire so that you end up with small barbs of metal angling out from the main shaft. Those barbs will hook onto to the hair and allow you to pull it off the paint.)

For those areas where I absolutely HAD to spray the POR, I was going to use my "Body Shutz" gun as it's a simple venturi feed air blower when I discovered that Harbor Freight sold one for a couple of bucks. Sadly that item is no longer available through them, but it is easy enough to replicate.

Get your normal, run-of-the-mill air blower with replaceable tips, and unscrew the tip. Get a piece of tubing that can be threaded to replace the tip and drill a hole towards the opposite end of the tube from the threads and braze/solder/epoxy a small tube that just barely juts into the air stream, leaving the outside of the tube long enough to attach a piece of PVC tubing to. Once assembled, connect the PVC tubing, putting one end into the POR can, and the other to the air blower, and the air blower to an air hose and spray away. It's a very simple venturi tip attached to an air blower. You may want to attach a weight to the end of the PVC tubing to keep it IN the POR.

With the one I used I was able to spray the inside of both rear fenders, the plenum underneath both quarter windows, the rocker panels from the inside of the car and the fresh air ducts in less than an hour. Additionally I used less than a quart of POR.

If you were planning on top-coating the POR, you can either do it as it is setting, or use the Tie-Coat primer or their Etching primer. Both of those primers have been specially formulated to "bite" into cured POR. Using a different brand of primer would require that you scuff the surface well enough to achieve mechanical adhesion, and believe me, POR is extremely HARD to scuff.

Hope this helps

E

[kenz240z]

Eastwood has a product called Rust Encapsulator which can be sprayed on. It is their version of POR. I have used it on several cars now with good results. They have also have a product called Chassis Black that makes a great topcoat for suspension parts. Not too glossy and not too flat. www.eastwood.com

As far as interior paint, I sprayed the visible interior areas on the 2 Z's that I painted a different color from the original. Basically the tool bin/spare tire well area. I didn't bother with anything that would be covered by interior panels, carpet, dash, etc...