Best way to rebuild

[joe newsom]

I was hoping to get opinions on the best way to paint and rebuild car without messing paint job up..

 

 

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[Zed Head]

Need more detail.  Paint over the old paint would be the obvious answer.

[joe newsom]

Sorry,

I have dismantled car... hood , doors , hatch, axles, interior, glass, engine bay. everything.
Stripped, sandblasted now just coated wit por15 on undercarriage and interior and engine bay.

Thinking how to go next :

Do I paint chassis without doors and panels so I can rebuild then paint doors, hood etc and install then color sand. Just curious of your guys process


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[Mark Maras]

 I'd paint the chassis without the panels and doors installed but paint everything at the same time.

[siteunseen]

I think the engine bay would determine my paint process. Same color as the body or black? I would pull the motor and transmission,  paint the bay and undercarriage then the car. Rebuild and reinstall engine and transmission. 

[motorman7]

Door jams, hatch area, and engine bay first.  Best when car is mostly disassembled.  This is what my paint shop did.

 

Pics on this link near bottom of page 7

 

[Patcon]

Depends on the paint. Solid or metallic? Light color or dark color? If you go metallic you need to paint the car all assembled or different panels will come out different. Dark colors are more forgiving for the amount of coats you apply but less forgiving on the body and metal work. If you paint a sold color on a disassembled car, you need to be careful and apply the same amount of coats to each part or the color shades can vary...

[joe newsom]

Sweet this helps.

Are the hood springs typically painted or plated?

 

 

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[Patcon]

I believe they were painted from the factory, but I plated mine

[joe newsom]

Yea your zcar looks awesome. I posted a question about plating on your thread. Was curious if the rubber grommets and plastic pieces will survive the plating process. Some of them seem they would be destroyed by removing


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[Richard McDonel]

Joe,

How much experience / practice at painting have you had?

By following instructions, we back-yard restorers can assemble the engine, the suspension, and all that mechanical stuff, and if we get something wrong unfasten and reassemble, but painting, based on my limited experience, is very much a practiced art.  

Unless you have something less valuable than your 240Z - perhaps a friend's stock car -  to practice on,  I'd let the pros do the paint.  Guaranteed, your first try will not turn out looking like those photos posted by Motorman7.