How Much Paint to Remove

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi All

Question to those who have re painted there cars, how far did you go inside the engine area, the area behind the engine. Spent 2 days sanding back to factory primer, removed 2 re sprays to get to factory paint, now back to primer, going to stone chip with black under the tub and up to the front area but not sure if I should go further with the sanding. Top coat will be Red so it's down to how far to do the red.

Alan

This is where I am as of tonight



Should I sand down to the red line and finish the red lower

[gmw9666]

this chap went all the way ooo errr = http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[v8s4me]

Won't you be covering that area with heat-shield anyway?

[Alan Whitaker]

Good point Joe, I was only going to put heatshield on the exhaust pockets but could do the back, so back to ebay for some more.

Alan

[v8s4me]

Do the whole area as far back as the gear stick hole.

[Alan Whitaker]

v8s4me said:

Do the whole area as far back as the gear stick hole.

With paint or heat sink

Alan

[Alan Whitaker]

Hi All
Think I am going to do the RED down to where it's primed and black stone chip from there.

Alan


Few bits to fill in, it's primed so a bit of Dolfin Glaze and a lot of hand sanding

[v8s4me]

Alan Whitaker said:

With paint or heat sink Alan

Paint and then heat shield. I haven't used it my self but I've been told this type of product works well.