Interested in painting the fairings on my track bike. I'd like to use actual auto paint so it holds up, but I did not realize how expensive this shit is. Figure I only need a quart but most of these places sell by the gallon. Looking for something pretty budget, not expecting greatness. Any recommendations? Local auto supply place quoted me $200 for primer/sealer, 1qt basecoat, clearcoat.
>>28217265Check out Eastwood they have decent paints for budget and usually in the reviews people who have used it post pictures of whatever they painted.
>>28217266Looked at this first but seems like they only sell by the gallon for 95% of their colors
>>28217265Summitracing.comNot even joking they have some of the best and cheapest paint packages out there. Color selections are kino as well.
>>28217265you can buy a whole gallon of rustoleum for 50 bucks but you better not cheap out on the clear coat, also I reccomend buying a couple pints of black to darken it, it is the absolute cheapest conceivable way to paint a car.
>>28217265reminder, prep is everything.
If you go into an actual local paint shop you can get pints and quarts. I use PPG or Nason primers, House of Kolor paint. You can probably get away with a pint of actual color for a set of fairings.
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>>28217265Just about any exterior paint will hold up as long as you prep right. I've painted quite a few cars and bikes in rustoleum spray cans that turned out great and are still holding up a few years later. DA down to base, then mud as necessary without caking the fuck out of it. Surface prep should be 220->400->600. Since farings are generally all curves, get a cheap flexible block set on Amazon and take off the orange peel with 600 -> 800. You can get into hand finishing with 1000+ grit if you wanna get crazy.
>>28217367Share a pic of one
>>28217397Pic rel is the last bike I did with cans. IIRC, the base was Rustoleum gloss deep blue (closest I could get to Yamaha blue) and the clear was what I had left over from painting the foxbody behind it (which I did do with proper auto paint). Most of it was hand finished with a foam blocks, and I bought the sticker pack off Motox.
