1994 - Ford Escort Cosworth - power steering fluid tank

For the underside, bay etc. Yes.

I'll be using cellulose as I can spray that with my same setup.

For the exterior. Undecided.

I'll probably epoxy prime the exterior, but I'm still not certain if I'll the top coat. I'm tempted to do in cellulose simply because I can then do any repairs to the paint at home. But if I go to a paint shop they will do a better job of it, and it may be tougher paint finish.

Previous cars I've painted with cellulose have survived well. I just had to leave them a good wile for the paint to fully cure.

Any reason for a black interior?
As that is surely going to soak all the heat up in use

Or is it purely for lack of glare on the inside of the glass?

Today was a busy day, but didnt end up with much vissible.

I bought a couple of heaters and put them on raising the temp in the workshop to help cure the paint.

It worked, and after about 20 mins it had got uncomfortably warm with my normal overalls and jumper on. Not sure of the exact temp, but I think it was pushing 20deg. I left it all to bake for a few hours. The paint felt noticeably harder to the touch by the end of the day.

I then spent the rest of the day seam sealing the underside. I used PU adeheasive / sealant put on with the calk gun and then flattened with a finger.

engine bay key seams.

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I've purposely not sealed the bottom of the inner wings as I want any moisture to run out not get trapped.

Inner wings

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The gaps are where there's weld beads sealing, or at the bottom faces where i've again left open to allow moisture out.

It looks fairly heavy applications as it black on light, however its a very thin smear on all joints.

and the underside

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It took a surprisingly long time to do.

Still it should all have set ready for me to scotchbrite the primer next time and get some white on it all.

Which is now likely to be after Christmas.

Thanks.

Well. Here's hoping i got it right and it all works!

Outside will be satin black, with a level of rally stickering and possibly some subtle gloss black or colour highlights in strategic places.

After a few weeks on other things I was back on the escort today. ]

I scuffed back the paint to key it for the top coat.

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then started masking up

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the luminous green tape really pops against the black. Hmm maybe I need to find a way to bring it into the design of the cars paint.

then to prevent overspray making it into the car I used poly sheetig to close all appertures

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flipped it over to start painting, and closed in a gap where one of the rollcage members passes through a double skin that is left open.

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then cleaned it all down with an air dust and panel wipe, then on with the paint.

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I got the first coat on the engine bay, them promptly ran out of paint! I thought I had two cans of white, but it turns out i didnt.

This scuppers my plans but I've ordered more, unfortunately it wont get here until at least the 4th. Doh.

I may well have to start prep work on some of the other bits, like wings, doors, boot, and interior panels (foot rests, and tank cover). Plus a few other jobs.

So as per last post, the paint arrived.

lots of it

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I had a tidy round and found a new space for it.

Then mixed up some paint and went rount with the spot repair gun getting to all the difficult to reach places.

Then flipped the car over and applied a light first coat of paint to the underside, starting off round all the seams and hard to reach places, then a light dust over all the floor.

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then gave the bay a once over again

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I did much better at avoiding runs this time, the paint grips much better when wet to the existing paint coats that it does when wet to the epoxy.

put another coat on

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its starting to get there, but i think will need another couple of coats

Thanks.

Its slowly getting there!

Excellent work, it looks great.

Tom

Then gave the floor etc a clean,swapped out the filters on the extractor and on my face mask, then set to putting another couple of coats on.

I used the touch up gun first to get to the difficult bits first, then onto the main gun to get some volume onto the rest.

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there are a couple of small really really awkward bits that need a bit extra on, but I just cant work out how to get them! once its all set i'll see what I can do with the spot repair gun to get into them. But i need the paint to have a fair chance to set first as otherwise i'll just chip it trying to get into them.

I banged the heaters on and gave it a hour or so at temp to help set it all off well.

Once this was done I pulled the covering plastic off.

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a couple of spots the masking had moved and bled through a bit of paint.

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but these should be fairly straight forward to sort.

I then moved on to masking up the car ready to sand / paint the outside.

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I've takem a few extra days off, so tomrorow will be finish the masking off, then sanding down the body.