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[Duncan]

Duncan.   Nice job!  Did you do the vinyl yourself? 
 
You going to be out at the Nasa Event in March?

I had a shop do the vinyl. I'll be at the NASA Mid-Atlantic event in March. I moved from California to Virginia late last year.

Duncan

[ChrisA]

I had a shop do the vinyl. I'll be at the NASA Mid-Atlantic event in March. I moved from California to Virginia late last year.

Duncan

Where in VA? I'm in Richmond.

[Duncan]

Where in VA? I'm in Richmond.

 

Fairfax

[DrDomm]

Awesome.  I love cars with color, that look like racecars should.

[Zack Benham]

Very entertaining thread, thanks for sharing, and great job on your build looks killer!

[RazerX]

I had a shop do the vinyl. I'll be at the NASA Mid-Atlantic event in March. I moved from California to Virginia late last year.

Duncan

So they cut and applied the vinyl?  I did some stripes 2 years ago and given all the curves it was a frustrating and time consuming affair.  

[Duncan]

So they cut and applied the vinyl?  I did some stripes 2 years ago and given all the curves it was a frustrating and time consuming affair.  

 

They did everything.  I didn't watch it go on. 

[RazerX]

Thanks.

 

Good luck in VA!

[David S.]

Wow, awesome work!

[fotostars]

They did everything.  I didn't watch it go on. 

 

Very nice vinyl work! It's a *LOT* of work, even for someone who does that for a living...

[brian0473]

Car looks great.

How did you ventilate your garage while spraying? I'm thinking about tackling a similar project and trying to plan for how to properly set up my garage "paint booth".

[Danny Steyn]

Duncan

 

Thanks for an awesome thread, and an amazing end result. Love the colors; fresh, clean and distinctive. It will be really easy to identify your car in the pack, part of my reasoning behind my personal color selection. And having a distinctive and attractive design makes it a perfect target for that trackside photographer!

 

Now I don’t want to rain on your parade, but I want to bring something to your attention, something that you (and many others) might not be aware of. If you are hoping to qualify for some Mazda contingency awards, you are going to have a hard time with your current design.

 

Mazda has very specific brand requirements for this class. Solid color graphics only in one of their 4 colors, black, white, silver blue, (no outlines, stickers only over solid colors etc.) As your car is now, they will probably initially decline your contingency requests, just as they did with my car, despite the attractive design and well thought out appearance. I had to make several changes that compromised my initial design and I know that other drivers were also initially denied their claims.

 

Something that we should all be aware of if we are hoping to claim contingencies

 

Make sure you read the Mazda Contingency Awards Program

http://mazdamotorspo...ut Schedule.pdf

[Jim Drago]

Danny is 100% correct! I had to deal with that last year as well with a customers car.
Jim

[Duncan]

Duncan

 

Thanks for an awesome thread, and an amazing end result. Love the colors; fresh, clean and distinctive. It will be really easy to identify your car in the pack, part of my reasoning behind my personal color selection. And having a distinctive and attractive design makes it a perfect target for that trackside photographer!

 

Now I don’t want to rain on your parade, but I want to bring something to your attention, something that you (and many others) might not be aware of. If you are hoping to qualify for some Mazda contingency awards, you are going to have a hard time with your current design.

 

Mazda has very specific brand requirements for this class. Solid color graphics only in one of their 4 colors, black, white, silver blue, (no outlines, stickers only over solid colors etc.) As your car is now, they will probably initially decline your contingency requests, just as they did with my car, despite the attractive design and well thought out appearance. I had to make several changes that compromised my initial design and I know that other drivers were also initially denied their claims.

 

Something that we should all be aware of if we are hoping to claim contingencies

 

Make sure you read the Mazda Contingency Awards Program

http://mazdamotorspo...ut Schedule.pdf

 

Danny,

 

Reading the attached, it looks like my only point of non-compliance would be the outlined Mazdaspeed on the front hood, correct?  If so, that's a fairly benign change.  The quarter panel decals are blue and the required size.  Am I missing something?

 

thanks for the link.

 

Duncan

[davew]

I think Duncan will be ok with Mazda. We also had problems a couple years ago. James came over to my tent at the Runoffs with a tape measure!!!!!!

 

James does the contingency and seems to spend a fair amount of time on Facebook. Post your pic and he will probably see it.

 

Dave

[dstevens]

Car looks great.

How did you ventilate your garage while spraying? I'm thinking about tackling a similar project and trying to plan for how to properly set up my garage "paint booth".

I've shot a few cars in a garage.  We would "bag" the garage using plastic sheeting like in a Dexter kill room and ventilate using blowers from HF and a porta cool swamp cooler.  You'll have to change the pads on the cooler once you are done though.  I use these blowers (not just for painting but for everything, welding, cooling in the summer, working with solvents) http://www.harborfre...ator-97762.html and this duct http://www.harborfre...duct-97763.html .  Others like Northern have them as well. 

 

Where we would paint the cars has become a full time fab shop so it's a bit dirty and a fair amount of metal shavings no matter how much we clean.  To avoid this when I started working on the Miata again I put an Easy Up outside, tarped the sides, wet the ground a bit and also put down plastic sheeting.  I still used the blowers and the cooler to vent.  I'll finish the interior like this but probably go to a local Maaco we used for my wife's old car who will do a quicky spray on the body for a few hundred as long as I do the prep.  Considering I'd spend $80-100 on material from TCP Global and have to deal with the mess and setup it's worth if for me.  The first couple of hobby stocks were cool but it's kind of a hassle now.

 

This was from a few weeks ago.

 

 

[Brian Ghidinelli]

This thread takes me back to when I decimated half of my brain cells painting my 99 in my garage.  I wanted to "do it all" and I sure did it.  Wound up with a secret aero advantage: orange peel so thick it was like a golf ball texture.  

 

I don't think I got fresh plastic after priming so I probably was blowing flakes back into it, which is pretty much how it looked.  Did it once, won't be doing that again but beautiful work by people who know what they're doing!  

[Duncan]

This thread takes me back to when I decimated half of my brain cells painting my 99 in my garage.  I wanted to "do it all" and I sure did it.  Wound up with a secret aero advantage: orange peel so thick it was like a golf ball texture.

 

I don't think I got fresh plastic after priming so I probably was blowing flakes back into it, which is pretty much how it looked.  Did it once, won't be doing that again but beautiful work by people who know what they're doing!  

 

It helps to use the proper plastic.  The 3M auto stuff is designed to let the overspray stick to it. If you use Home Depot type stuff, the paint doesn't stick to it well, and then you get flakes in the paint. 

 

Duncan

[Duncan]

 

I've shot a few cars in a garage.  We would "bag" the garage using plastic sheeting like in a Dexter kill room and ventilate using blowers from HF and a porta cool swamp cooler.  You'll have to change the pads on the cooler once you are done though.  I use these blowers (not just for painting but for everything, welding, cooling in the summer, working with solvents) http://www.harborfre...ator-97762.html and this duct http://www.harborfre...duct-97763.html .  Others like Northern have them as well. 

 

Where we would paint the cars has become a full time fab shop so it's a bit dirty and a fair amount of metal shavings no matter how much we clean.  To avoid this when I started working on the Miata again I put an Easy Up outside, tarped the sides, wet the ground a bit and also put down plastic sheeting.  I still used the blowers and the cooler to vent.  I'll finish the interior like this but probably go to a local Maaco we used for my wife's old car who will do a quicky spray on the body for a few hundred as long as I do the prep.  Considering I'd spend $80-100 on material from TCP Global and have to deal with the mess and setup it's worth if for me.  The first couple of hobby stocks were cool but it's kind of a hassle now.

 

My setup is very similiar.  I'll add a note of caution.  Make sure if you have a gas water heater in the garage, it's turned OFF!

Duncan.

[Danny Steyn]

Danny,

 

Reading the attached, it looks like my only point of non-compliance would be the outlined Mazdaspeed on the front hood, correct?  If so, that's a fairly benign change.  The quarter panel decals are blue and the required size.  Am I missing something?

 

thanks for the link.

 

Duncan

Duncan, I was called out for several items

• Outline on Mazdaspeed up front similar to yours
• non compliant color of the Mazda stickers on the rear wheel arches
• the front Mazdaspeed stickers appearing on non-solid color background

once this was brought to my attention I was given the opportunity to resolve the issues and resubmit my claims