Last week, before I left, I hit the stripped and repaired body with an epoxy sealer, and then a filler surfacer primer. The filler/surfacer is a high build primer that helps fill in the low spots. It was very exciting to have the body all one color. It was an amazing feeling.
So this week, I started by putting a light guide coat of rattle can primer on the car. Not enough to have a color per say, just a light misting. Then...guess what? I sanded. This phase is called 'blocking' the car. I used 400 grit wet sand paper and sanded until my hands fell off, or until the guide coat was gone. Low spots show up when the guide coat doesn't sand away, while the surrounding area gets sanded down to fiberglass. High spots are the opposite. Thankfully, there were VERY few, VERY minor low and high spots. Saab does a really good job with fiberglass. The corvette guys in the class are very jealous.
After I was done, there were a few pinholes left over from the 30 year old filler on some of the edges, and a couple of minor low spots. I got that all finished before I left. Which means....next week...paint...eep!
I have to pick out the color...i think I'll go with the original blue, but with a little metallic added in. Unfortuneatly, you can't just go get the color code and say "add metallic". It won't work. You have to go get a paint that was fully designed with metallics. So I'll have to dig through the paint chips for all of the manufacturers and come up with something that's pretty close.
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