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I had a Milano Red Si that I finally got to pretty much exactly how I wanted it.


Until this happened


So I bought this


but I absolutely HATE the 96-98 front end so I did this.




But I got tired of the two tone. So I started painting. Today I got the first coat down. I've spent less than $30 so far.





This is how it sits now. I ran out of daylight. Tomorrow after class I'll be sanding and putting down another coat. Looking good so far

I used less than a quart of Rustoleum red paint and decided to roll it on instead of spray it for several reasons. I'll have more pictures up tomorrow.

 
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Good move on the 99-00 front end, that's a huge improvement. I'm looking forward to seeing the results, I don't want to go rustoleum on my car, but I do want to attempt re-spraying myself..

What wheels are those?

 
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I picked rustoleum because it was the closest match to my paint. Nobody could match it because it is so red. Its Roma Red, a pain in the *** to find.

The Si had Racing hart CP8Rs that I polished up
The hatch has Sportmaxx 786 that I rattle canned bronze.

 
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ur pre-painted hatch looks like my car. lol

 
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Roma Red and everything?! Great minds look alike man

 
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hahah no no.

i went back to stock on my front end. so from the door and back, its painted oem, and from the fenders, hood, bumper...its primed. lol

ill get the whole car painted sooner or later

 
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I'm debating on going back to that tbh. Why you might ask? I'm glad you did

I would like to point out right now, how much I adimately DESPISE the Roma Red factory paint color. The reason being that it is IMPOSSIBLE to match. It is. Seriously. No lie. I checked on it first thing this morning and the paint dried a different color. Completely. I'm talking about Fire Engine Red vs Ketchup red, its a HUGE difference. Now I either have to finish painting it and be two tone again which I don't want to do, or paint the whole ****ing car which again, I don't want to do.

At this point, I'm faced with either finish it, go back to primer black, or do the whole car.

 
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Call me an idiot but .... whats the difference with the front ends? I don't see it O_O

 
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better get maaco. might be worth the $250 for a matching all around paint job.

 
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ditto. so similar, they look almost exactly the same. both have the same bumper, grill, and the same HUGE bug eye headlights. that's one of the reasons I like ej's, nice sleek headlights. and those headlight brows people put on their cars just look stupid imo. but hey, for $30 paint, looks good man!

 
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the shapes of the bumpers are different, the width of the grille the shape of the headlights are different, and the design of the headlights are different.

99-00 front

96-98 front

 
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So everyone has heard the song singing in the rain? I made up a new one called sanding in the rain. I needed to wet sand the first coat to put a second coat on today and it's been raining all day. At first I was pissed BUTT i figured why not go out and sand in the rain. It's ghetto as fehk but then again, I'm painting my car in my parking lot with house paint and a paint roller....it wouldn't be beneath me would it. So I went out in the rain and started wet sanding and let mother nature do the rest. A bunch of the paint ran off into a puddle and this STUPID ducks (they don't move for moving cars, I bump into them with my GFs car all the time hahahaha) walked in it so they now have bright red feed mwahahaha this is what its at so far.

paint looks dull because ive sanded it with 340 grit until smooth. The paint doesn't match but it looks damn good man. I will say that. Ironically, it matches Milano Red exactly. IIIIIIIIRONY. So it will look like a 99-00 Milano Red front clip on a hatch. Not too bad until I get around to painting it. I can deal with it for now until I can get the money to get it done with matching paint. It's better than it being black and everyone asking if I got in an accident. Ill post up more pics when I get another coat down.

 
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ahahahaha

Props for painting in a parking lot (I do the same), wet sanding in the rain, and dying ducks feet red.

 
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me 1 stupid ducks 0

FML heres my weather forecast. Fun.
http://www.weather.com/weather/map/i...ville+FL+32608

Sunshine State! WOOT!

 
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its starting to look pretty good now

 
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Okay .... now I see the difference ... the newer one looks nicer!
Also ... LEAVE THE POOR DUCKS ALONE~!!

 
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thanks for the explanation riot. totally different. and ya, the bumper looks better, the wider grill looks 10x better, and i like those headlights MUCH more than the 96-98, a lot more defined and contoured. good job man! paint looks good too! but i gotta say, i'm still laughing about rolling the paint on! lol sorry, just never seen anyone do that. good job tho!

 
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im guessing he wanted to do the work around other cars and didnt want overspray getting all over the place. when i sprayed my trunk, i went to the advance auto parking lot which was empty at the time lol.

 
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^I just have terrible luck with spraying lol I hate all the prep involved with spraying and the clear coating. I just wanted to have this on as a temp fix until I get the fundage to have it professionally matched and sprayed. If this stays for over a year, I can't complain man, I mean seriously, $30 and it looks damn good. It will look a whole lot better when I buff it after it cures. but thar she blows. Ill get better photos when its daytime




Not too shabby for 30 dollas. i need to do the mirrors grille and side skirts next.

 
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man you ain't lying everyone stopped and was like you can do that?! lol it would be really great for a flat black paint job. It can be done and cured in a day and would cost 100 or so to do the whole car and you can seal it with any kind of enamel based sealer/clear and it will last years.

 
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coming form someone who has a soon to be career tht cooks them.




and riot, thats is freaking awesome for a "$30" paint job. did u rattle it?

when i rattled my bike, it took almost $150+ in rattle cans from primer, base to clear.

 
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no suh, I used one quart of Rustoleum red (that I thought matched my paint) an aluminum paint tray and two ultra smooth finish high density rollers. With tax and everything and sand paper and such it came out to 27 and some pennies at Lowe's, we built something together. For yall other peeps out there with less obnoxious colors than Roma Red you can do what I did initially, pop your bumper trim piece off of the fender, the ones that run along the side of the car, and take it into the paint department, ask them to match that color. To yall with metallic colors, well yall are pretty much fehked since I don't see how yall can roll on metallic paint, but for the rest of yall, yall can thin the ***** out of a gallon of rustoleum or any other exterior paint and feed it through a gravity gun or a wagner power sprayer and do it that way with matched paint.

 
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did u primer it or just base coat it? did you clear coat it as well?

 
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holy ****. i jsut realized u did one of those roller paint jobs... VERY NICE MAN.

ive always wanted to try something like this out but never had to *****...but with my car showing it's age, i seriously might have to consider this.

 
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if it comes out horribly, its nothing that sand paper an spray paint can't fix. As far as prep goes, I had spray primer under it, I just scuffed it up with some 340 lightly and rolled it on and then 340 on the first coat and rolled on a second and done. Im going out now to see how it dried before I decide if it needs a clear. Ill snap some photos

 
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Singularly awesome. You, sir, are my new hero.

 
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I did rustoleum paint job before,
It comes out good only with a lot of sanding and a couple layers of clear

 
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hmm wonder if he is rolling on the clear too?

 
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dude i give you mad props. nice front end conversion, looks waay better, and DAMN that roller paint job looks sooooo good for $30! nice job man

 
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Hmm.... May have to invest in this. My paint is looking pretty bad.