[rms427]

Well after screwing around for 2 years painting my car I put a big dent in it. Since I had taken out the radiator to remove the hood I decided to change out the hoses. I had a lot of trouble getting the lower radiator hose on the water pump. I was leaning over the front of the car (thought I was being careful) and put a large dent in the nose.

I have had nothing but problems painting the car. I painted it before without much trouble. I purchased a new fairly expensive HVLP spray and have had a lot of problems with it. Main problem was dry spray which included a lot of overspray. Just didn't seem to get the coverage like my old conventional spray gun. I ended up respraying most of it several times. I used acrylic lacquer as I did before. I kind of wonder if the new guns are set up for the newer paints? It looked fine after I finished sanding and polishing it but now some flaws are showing up. I think the paint is already starting to fail so I'm very disappointed after all the work I put into it. The one thing about the dent is that it makes the other flaws somewhat disappear. I thought about repainting it but I'm tired screwing around with it so I'm just going to finish putting it together and drive it. At least I won't have to worry about getting the first dent.