before my engine goes in to the new shell i was going paint the engine bay black (its currently Red) I'm a complete novice with painting, if i was to rub back the existing paint with a scotch brite pad would this give enough key for a paint job (using cans)?
Yea that would be fine just scotch it back make sure no shiny places, any scratches or chips you might wanna sand so they blend in but other than that yea a scotch pad is fine I'm doin mine at the moment
coolthanks for reply
As said will be fine with a rub down with scotch brite
Make sure you de-grease it before rubbing down and before paint. Invest in a tin of panel-wipe.
This. ^^^^^Originally Posted by handsomedez
Use a degreasant then wash with fairly strong car shampoo then rinse thoroughly and dry....then rub down, wash, panel wipe then paint.
Definitely give it a good keying - scotch brite is fine but make sure you do a few passes so theres no shine left whatsoever.
I recently did my bay black, from red
to
I spent about 2-3 hours cleaning and keying it before hand and theres still a few bits that have chipped off fairly easily while refitting everything, but luckily you can hardly see them.
Depending on how clean or dirty it is a good jet wash wouldn't go a miss before you rub it down
Also believe it or not the scotch bright pads come in different grades so make sure you dont get really fine ones otherwise youll be there ages!!!
Superb thanks for all the comments
You might want to invest in a range of grades.Superb thanks for all the comments
it had crossed my mind Jonny
how many cans of paint did that take?
^^^^ Wish i had the money / space to do this while my SR is out.
right I've started rubbing down at the rate I'm going i should be looking at painting just in time for christmas...next year.
anyone got any recommendations for a electric powered jobbie that while save lots of time..oh and be fool proof?
Mate if you want text me and ill come give you hand with sanding it down if you like I'm free this weekend
If it's taking you that long you're doing it wrong! If you've degreased the bay then about half an hour spent with a scotchy should be plenty to key the surface. You're not trying to get it back to bare metal or anywhere near, just enough to rough up the surface so the new paint sticks. I'm doing this exact job on mine right now. To save time I'm soaking the scotchy in panel wipe and rubbing the bay to kill 2 birds with 1 brick
(Shameless picture whoring)
what colour scotch brite are you using?
It's brown
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