Grassroots Article on 240z

[Guest jdllaugh]

Grassroots Motorsports Magazine has a nice little article on a "Gumby" green Turbo 240z in its August issue, which I just received in the mail (in June!). It's supposed to hit the newstands soon.

Says the car was painted with six cans of Krylon spray paint!

[johnc]

I've seen the car in person and in the article. While its a good rattle can paint job, it still looks like a rattle can paint job.

 

The owner works for Balanced Performance in Sugar Hill, GA which is right across the alley from Sunbelt Performance Engines. Balanced has tons of Nissan experience.

[pparaska]

Back when I was a poor college student, and had a bit of an interior fire that toasted the roof, interior, windshield, quarters, etc., I did the "rattle can" thing too. I found an "automotive finish" rattle can that had a very close match to the 110 red/orange that was on the car. I rattle canned it and it was an orange! I mean orange in color and orange in peel!

 

A few hours with some 400, 600, 800 sand paper and it looked smoother than the slightly oxidized true automotive paint on the car.

 

BTW, 320 rwhp for that type of a setup is damned impressive - 6 months to a year to get the carb dialed in though!

[utvolman99]

I have found that you can get a pretty good finish with a spray can on very small suface area items. The interior for instance would not be that bad because there are a lot of bends and the parts are pretty small. Its when you have large flat areas such as the hood, fenders, doors etc... you have the problems. My father owns a paint and body shop and for small items such as black side mirrors (only if the black is not suppose to match the car) he will use a spray can. There is just too much set up for the gun.