on this episode of hands on cars Kevin sprays urethane primer
perhaps the camaro for paint and takes a trip to spring Carlisle
hey guys kevin gates thanks for watching hands on cars and thanks for following
along with our project vehicle
this is project said sled are 1978 z28 camaro and boys come a long way
we have graduated recently from the high build polyester primer surfacer which is
essentially the last stage of your body work
blocked out nicely two sessions of priming and we've been everything about
four coats of the black 2k urethane primer surfacer but even while I was
spring and I saw some hints that maybe the bodywork wasn't perfect in a couple
of places so i decided to run a block over it one last time
sure enough I'm finding some waves and finding places that with a black paint
chopper with any pay job for that matter are going to show through your top coats
like I've said a hundred times and i'll say a hundred more times you have the
opportunity through blocking through citing through guide coating to inspect
your surface and make sure that by the time you get around to spring that paint
you've done as much as you can to perfect that surface and that substrate
so I'm going to take this opportunity to block it out one more time spray a
little bit of primer and then we'll have that reward when the paint comes
so while i'm doing a little rubbing on the Jets led we're going to show you
what it took to get to this point
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for a final primer surfacer I was like to use a 2k primer and reason east to
its 421 urethane primer
that's black it's nice to have an option with the color because black hole on top
of us can be black neutral gray goes under just about any other color as a
nice ground coat and if we play our cards right and we find this car
properly we stay with the black we can bypass the process of doing this sealer
less solvent less layers better paint job so he's shaking it like James Bond
we're going to stir it scrub your stick across the bottom you feel any gumminess
or anything up to that lump that means there's talcher sediment or it separated
hanging out the bottom
you gotta stir it up and shakers a great idea but always double check
there's a couple things going to make your life easier when it comes to mixing
your primer surfaces and that's these mixing cups
we found our four to one ratio right here so we're going to just click on the
amount we want we're going to mix up to
let's just say to them then to the next floor which is for 21 and you've got a
dead accurate mix the right proportions going to make all the leisure between
this and the port lids
we're not making a mess we're very accurate Katie likes this
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thats it for parts surfacer one part activator stir to blend the components
and filtered into your gun you're ready to spray after a good wipe down with
pre-painting prep
I like to blow the car and the parts all for the blower and at a craig and i set
the air pressure to a little more pressure than I spray the primer
this makes sure that the dust is not launched into the air and that is
removed from the surface and not trapped underneath the layer of primer
i'm using my concourse pro-gun with the 1.7 fluid tip for the 2k primer surfacer
i'm using a 50-percent overlap and laying down a wet coat for all 3 of the
Code some spring you can use this priming stage as a rehearsal of source
for when you're painting your car you can map out your strategy figure out
difficult to reach spots and roughly gauge how much material you will be
using / code of whatever your spring just by keeping track
obviously in my booth I've got great airflow but even if you don't have a
booth to spray and make sure that you can evacuate the air and filter the
exhaust to help you dry and cure the primer
otherwise you could trap solvents and that's not good
you can tell that the black toque a primer is dry by the velvety look it
takes on and it gives you a pretty good idea of how straight the panels are two
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hey guys kevin gates for hands-on cars you oh there were knee-deep in project
said sled and we're racing towards having that silly sucker finished enough
to drive we're excited about it but just like you
we got the disease so we're constantly looking out for the next possible
project and what better place to start that then spring Carlisle look at the
car corral look at the vendor tents
this is it baby and sure enough look over here 79 z/28 we are at home
let's check this out let's get some cool stuff
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it's nice to see Camaros especially z28 but this right here is one of my
favorite year Chevrolet's this is a malleable 1966 and it's good to know
we're not the only people do an LS swap into a vintage car
check this out Corvette motivation is going to carry this sucker down the road
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ok whoever buys this fat find me i will give you a big discount on the Patriot
asian fiberglass repair DVD just saying because dang
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if you know we'd all you know i did a show called trucks for about nine years
so obviously i'm a truck guy -
and this is a beautiful example i actually had one of these in high school
- 57 f 100
you can tell it's a 57 because it's a single headlight year for the next
generation passed around fender once this has a couple of things that my old
rusty POS never had small block chevy and most importantly air conditioning
I grew up in the okanagan valley and bc and it was hot in the summertime it
i wish i had some of the some of the curve of field at this truck head
I don't just brings me back very cool truck
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now this is one of the coolest things about coming to Carlisle if you're
looking for a project vehicle you could come across some money interesting stuff
this is a rare bird this is a real 1968 z28
and it's headed an enormous amount of work done to it is about new floors new
trunk floors and an OS quarter on one side and a reproduction quarter on the
other side all the rust repair is kind of done on this thing so you can take
this start off with a solid foundation and get up and running pretty darn quick
but something's kind of wrong because I think that part supposed to go in the
back
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we'll come to any Carlisle event is always a big time and this one has
taught us a couple of things in the first place the hobby is alive and well
this place is packed and in the second place the swapmeet well it's a good
shape - it's not all just online
so come onto a Carlile event check out the swapmeet there's all kinds of great
deals on unbelievably rare stuff in the car corral was fantastic but as much fun
as we've been having reliving my past in automotive history
I gotta go to work I got a workshop to teach
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spring Carlisle was a great event and after an eight-year hiatus
the people love to see Eastwood return and they were really excited about
Kevin's paint demo but you know what else is really exciting
on the next episode of hands on cars Kevin's going to show you how to prep a
car for paint prep a booth for paint and spray base and clear coat
you need to click the button subscribe because this is an episode you don't
want to miss if you're ever planning on painting your own car
but now let's get back to the action see what Katie's up to want to talk about
the next stage of primers which is used to it's 2k primer surfacer it's a
urethane primer in our case we're using black well because their top coat is
going to be black and it's a perfect ground coat
it's a little bit different philosophy we're not so much shaping but we are in
a sense so I like to use blocks and not finger since i have a combination of
soft Sanders and your blocks that helped me get the job done and let me show you
what I'm talking about
now there's not a single piece of sheet metal on any car that is dead flat so
different shapes on the sheet metal different shapes on the sanding blocks
the soft side is a perfect for that because they're flexible
there's a lot of different shapes even this one that looks flat it's got a bit
of a crowd to it so it's nice for these internal crevices and my dira blocks are
here for the night hard foot and a perfectly flat surface for the pieces
that six square inches on this hood that are actually flat so i'm here to take
our soft sander and I can perfectly block the center coat here
it's not be jamming a hard 90 down into that thing and hoping it's actually
utilizing the shape block itself
finding the happy place
and walking as I need to we need bottom time to stop blocking it
right here is where we body worked the top of the hood into the top defender so
there's a little skin coat of filler there
and this one of the things that are really like about this black primer
surfacer to start with it acts as it's only diet coke you can see low spots
here particularly this little divot right there at that
until it disappears that particularly well it might lock out it might need a
little bit of filler on top i don't want to dig a hole since this is black is
going to be perfectly class
you're just so right here we're down to filler and i'm still gotta do it there
that's going to stay like it is i'm going to do a little micro wipe of
glazing putty get that up to speed
re prime that it will be good for the areas that truly seem flat
I'm going to use my big flat durable travel with my ex pattern
you never want to assume that anything is perfect on your car
the brand new hood it's a beautiful stamped piece from national parts depot
stuff can happen during shipping is shipped in a giant cardboard box and you
know it
break you
see that stuff to the paint job
so it's worth it to you
worth it to go the extra mile spend a little bit more money on primer surfacer
and make sure that your panels are flat for you put your cock
so obviously it's a lot of work it's a lot of work to get a car straight and
flat but it's worth it and you guys can do it with the help of eastwood into
education and the one thing that struck me was when I prime this thing out in
the black
it looks so sinister in this black primer I almost wanted to leave it as a
matter of fact a buddy of mine Chris German has a 2nd gen f-body and he's got
his in flat black with red accents and boy it looks mean so we're going to meet
up with kris on some autocross course it was you
it's but I wanted to show you also the pretty painting prepping the pump
sprayer again it's another tool to look and see you can see what kind of a
powerful tool when checking your panels is one of the things that I wanted to
talk to you guys about was the fender vents here
now this is something that is actually lighting up Facebook guys love this
stuff and I can't even take credit for it because it's still GM stuff
these are custom vents this is not a custom opening this is what the factory
provided us
here's the difference these gills used to be put on from the outside
all we did was flip around and put them in from the inside
big thanks to kiwi chris lee from Kiwi classics and customs for figuring out
the tabs in the mechanism for holding it in from the back side but it's really
really simple and we didn't have to fabricate anything look at the cool look
that we've got this is going to be outstanding
and at least for a little while until you guys start doing it it's going to be
unique so let's let has come a long way
thanks for following us along and the next time you see this car
it's going to be bathed in black black black
triple black stupid shiny and we're going to show you that just with some
time investment the bodywork is worth it
before we go there's one more thing I want to show you now as much as I like
the vintage in 90 wheels
I am crazy about these wheels these are not new these were used we got him off
of an Internet auction and did some tricks with some nice wood coatings and
check it out
stupid wide rubber really neat-looking wheels black brings it up current and we
didn't pay an arm and a leg for these wheels so if you're wondering what I
used
it's not powder coat is the metal blackening system from eastwood sorry -
and where
you but I'm excited about this coating this really works well it's really good
for almost any substrate with very minimal prep looks great and it's easy
to apply and very affordable
so what do we got we got new skins for Zed slit
thanks for watching i'm kevin gates you're watching hands on cars we got
some cool stuff coming up for you in the meantime do it with your own hands do
the job right with the help of east with on the next episode of hands on cars
Kevin paints the camaro and gives you tips on how to do the job right
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