Painting my 1st Gen

Man that looks so killer. Giving me inspiration to tackle my trucks wreck of a paint job.

 

How many gallons and CFM rating was your air compressor?
The Harbor Freight HVLP or HTE spray guns I've researched would require a minimum 11CFM at 40PSI. That means investing in a 60 gallon compressor because pretty much all affordable 30/33 gallon compressors have a rating under 9 CFM @ 40PSI.

 

The harbor freight purple gun requires 6 cfm. So you need a compressor that can keep up with that. I used at 15 gallon dewalt air compressor that was just about right at 6cfm. I never lost pressure and stayed at right about 32 psi.

The purple gun is 15 dollars and the air compressor was about 450.

 

Oh! I may consider that purple spray gun then. All their other ones are much higher CFM requirements. Thanks

 

This is amazing. Inspires me to take on the same project myself.

 

Good job man! you can wet sand most of that orange peel out. Color looks sweet!

 

Got some camber to correct looks like

 

Yeah it does look like that in the picture… it’s fine in person. Had an alignment not long ago. Don’t know if that is because of the lens of my camera or something… not sure.

 

Good stuff man! You really have me thinking of going this route too someday

 

Nice job man!

 

Finished up the last bit in the front. Officially de-chromed.

 

Sick dude. Awesome job.

 

Logged in for the first time in forever to add my praise - fantastic job. Love the de-chromed look. I'm just about to start painting my '04, but I figured out a little trick to doing a quality job on a budget: I painted my wife's Highlander first. It was great practice and she didn't mind me that I spent the money on all these tools that I just happen to have laying around now.

But yeah...tedious is putting it mildly.

 

Nice job looks awesome

 

What color are you going with?

 

What did you paint your bumper with? Did you have to sand the chrome off?

 

This turned out awesome! Great job OP!

 

Plastidipped the grill and bumper. I did the grill a long time ago.

 

What paint and clear brand did you use? Planning something similar for the summer! Thanks, and it looks great!

 

I also want to see how the door jambs turned out, im thinking of doing this to my 1st gen as well.