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Throw some Japan dry in, it dries pretty quick.
Japan dry?
please 'splain....
With mineral spirits and some desert sun. It was dry in a day.
If only we had that much space in NY! Would that work with other colors or really only with black?
Yes, I'm a noob...
and Yes, flames are welcomed.
Safety Yellow works great too...
http://something.nulldaemon.com/blog/?p=204
WHo doesn't have an air compressor? Well, me for one. I do have a $17 Harbor Freight self contained spray gun that worked out pretty good when I was doing my stucco with Latex, so I may try it on the next car.
If we had the luxury of time to let paint properly dry, I'd be all for rolling or spraying it on, but time is something we never have enough of before a race. That's why I like to stick with rattle cans, dry to the touch within a few minutes and totally dry within an hour. We had less than 24 hours to take our GTP from pitch black to bright white and there was no way it could have been pulled off without fast drying spray paint or a time machine.
Sure, that's a $10 paint job if you already own a compressor (what $200?) and the spay gun. Buy yourself the snap on plastic rattle can trigger and you can spray with the rattle can at least 75% as well as you could with the spray gun. Even better if you are lousy with the spray gun.
THIS!! these things are fantastic, but you need to get a good one. Or more ideally One for each team member. Then you can simply touch up with the can as well.
$10/quart for primer and paint and cheap rollers from NAPA. It took about 45 minutes to roll on one coat. It took days of sanding off the old bondo skin and making other repairs.
What we started out with.
Somewhat cleaned up and sporting a new cage.
Sanding and bondo.
Rollering primer
Transformed!
Yellow!!!!
Done, just in time to put it on the trailer.
Off the trailer, still looking naked.
By the end of the weekend...
Somewhat cleaned up and sporting a new cage.
I wish you guys had found a way to keep the Corvette wheels 
We still have them. We raced with them at Reno-Fenrley.
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