Hi all. Sorry for the long post, but after all the work I've done I don't want to screw this up. This is my first time at this.
I'm finishing up the prep for painting my 67 GTO. I'll tell you what I've done and I have a few questions.
I completed all the rust repair, a long list that I won't go thru here. I then applied some evercoat filler, the stuff with aluminum in it, I forget the name, directly on the metal, supposed to be made for that. I used this filler for some of my filling, specifically over the welded patches. Then I primered the whole car with DPLF90 black. This primer sat at least two months. I finished some more filler work over the dplf90. 180 grit sanding the dpfl before coating it with the filler. I always started sanding the filler with 80 grit then finished with 180 or 220. After all the filler work was done, I primed with K36. Block sanded (220 grit always), another coat of k36, blocked again, another coat of k36, blocked again. At that point I had it pretty straight, I used the guide coat method.
After the last block sanding, I had a few small areas that need more filler and primer, so I spoted these areas with primer over the minor filling. All of this work was done up to about 2 months ago.
In the last 2 months, I have wet sanded the primer, 2k glazed the minor pin holes and scratches, and touched up small areas with the k36 where I sanded thru.
I am planning on having a professional painter spray the car on Sat. Nov. 25. I have not sprayed any k36 since november 14, until last night. I found a spot on top of the driver side fender that needed filling. This is an area about 4 inches by 10 inches.
Now I'm worried about this area. I filled it,waited an hour, sanded 220 grit with the 16" board, then sanded 500 grit with a hand pad, then primed it with k36 about 30 minutes later. an hour later I wet sanded the primer 600 grit.
Is this acceptable?? Will 4 days be enogh of a wait for the k36 to shrink out? Should I set it outside over the next 3 days in the arizona sun to speed up the curing process?
I think I got in a hurry here at the last minute and screwed up. Sorry for the long post.
Also, does my preping process look right?
Thanks for the help.