3 coats of clear later....
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It looks really good. Tiny bit of orange peel. It needed the third coat. After 2 coats I said, hmm, that looks pretty darn good. After the third, it was oh yeah.
Not bad for raw unbuffed.
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So some notes. The base coat runs were sanded out with 2000 wet. I then came back over with a shot of color to even those spots out. I don't see them at all.
I don't see any of the sanding scratches that I was worried about. Aside from some trash in it which you will have in any garage paint job, I'm thrilled. If I were really going to go for show car quality, I would block to 600 in the primer, 3 coats of base. Sand out any bad spots or dirt with 2000 then a quick shoot with a light coat of color. Flash, tack it off and clear it. Same thing, probably 3 coats of clear, clean it up and then 1 more wet coat followed by buffing.
So having now used the SPI materials start to finish, I like the epoxy primer a lot. The 2k is okay. I think if I had reduced it, 10 % or so, I think it would be fine. I'll report on that later. The base coat sprays really nice and honestly hides a lot of stuff it probably shouldn't. The clear sprays very nice.
I will say, the tech sheets are very lacking. I've found that the tip size recommendations for the primer are a little big. I had much better luck with a 1.5 rather than the 1.8 tip. That said, what the tech sheets lack, you cannot beat the customer service. Andy at SPI is extremely attentive. I sent an email last night and had a reply at 6:20 this morning. Emails are returned within hours and many times in minutes. You can't beat that. I've been beating him with noob questions for over a month now.
If I can get the rest of it to look this good I'll be a happy man.