I'm building this in my garage....

[turbot2496]

The paint booth not the plane. LOL

http://home.hiwaay.net/~sbuc/journal/paint1.html


Finally after years of procrastination and high estimates, I'm gonna paint this sucker myself. I haven't painted a car in years but after a $4000 estimate and no time frame from the latest place the wife finally said OK. Especially when she saw I could get the paint gun, freshair system, painting system and all for under a grand. No huge compressor needed. Plus since its my car, I have a feeling I'll take my time and do an awesome job. After doing the research, I've found that you can do a really good paint job with a stage 4 turbine hvlp system. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

 

[QuickWrench]

Hey there,

Keep this thread updated. I'd love to see how this turns out.

If someone could come up with a booth like this that's effective and could be broken down in an hour or so, that would be great. I'd build one tomorrow.

 

[Kent C]

Why don't you check around usually there are places that will rent you there booth. I have done this many times and it is typically about $100. Well worth it in my opinion

 

[turbot2496]

No place around here close to rent a booth. I would need it longer than a day anyway. Car is going to be totally stripped and reprimed.

 

[Mike70gtx]

Looks good. Have thought about the same thing. I have an article from Car Craft in April of 2001 on building one in your garage. In comparison to that one. You might want to move a little more air. A couple of filters and a couple of fans. CAUTION, with paint products going though the motor on the box fan. Better to have a squirrel cage with motor out of the flow of the potential explosives.

 

[QuickWrench]

Originally posted by Kent C
Why don't you check around usually there are places that will rent you there booth. I have done this many times and it is typically about $100. Well worth it in my opinion

Another big reason I'd like to have the booth is for engine assembly. We typically go through the bottom-end of a motor after every race, so we'd use it 15 - 20 times per year. Having an isolated booth with air that's better than ambient would be nice.

 

[sixgun86gn]

I have one of the HVLP turbine setups and painted my car with it.Turned out nice with no runs.

Only problem I had was I cheaped out and used single stage paint and it orange peeled.I tried wet sanding it out and made it look really bad.I will be re doing it with a basecoat/clearcoat this time.

You should have no problem laying down a decent paint job with yours.