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I'm shopping for compressors as my old Coleman is pretty weak. It used to keep up with a DA sander but those days are about over. I was looking at one that puts out 7.1 cfm@40psi and 5.5 cfm@90 psi. Do you think that's adequate for painting a car? I have no idea what the specs were on my old one; it was an oilless 4HP motor with an 11 gallon tank and the one I'm looking at is belt driven with a 2HP motor and a 24 gallon tank.

This is what I have have. It's a 5hp & it will not only keep up w/any air tool but also will fill the tank up & shut down while running any airtool in the process. PLUS it's made here in the good old USA in Quincy, IL. On an air compressor I have always went by the rule "BIGGER is BETTER". I paid $1100 for mine at Rural King a couple of years ago...joe

I got a 5 horse one from Lowes for about 500.. It does pretty good but the high CFM stuff will slow it down sometines..It keeps up very well spraying paint though...Nothing worse than having spray pressure issues when painting...there's enough other stuff to go wrong, sure don't need that.

I have the 5hp splash lubricated quincy with 80 gal tank, the not as fancy version of toomany2count's. I think it was about 1100-1200 last year. I want to say it is rated about 19cfm at 175psi. whatever it is we have no problems. I'm not a painter, seems to me of the tools I do use the one that takes the most air is the die grinder for some reason. we've got it setup with two outlets so we can run two at the same time, but we haven't yet.

for the investment I think it is better to buy bigger rather than wait till later. resale on the small compressors isn't crap so it isn't like you get a credit when you upgrade. might as well bite it all off at once, if you can.

Red