my car has been stripped and most of the bondo work is done. so i didnt rust, i sprayed a surfacing primer over most of the car. a tan color and then a black to show high spots. but now i just was to spray a primer on it so i can put the car back together enough to drive it.

what kind of primer should i spray on it? i have no clue on this stuff.

this is how it looks right now. the surfacing primer is a real rough texture and gets dirty REAL fast. any little touch with a finger leaves marks. is there a more durable primer? i see a lot of cars driving around in just primer and they dont seem to get so dirty.

 

Epoxy primer is hard a nails when it dries and very easy to work with. The only thing you really need to know is it has a 30 min induction time, but it will tell you that on the can. You can get this stuff from oreilly's I think. If you drive your car around in only epoxy it will chalk, if it does this scuff it with a scotch brite pad and re-apply a coat over it. Good luck! Here's how the hood on my truck looked like after I epoxied it.

 

Another product you might want to use is Featherfill. It is a self-leveling primer that will cover up any imperfections like scratches. I would use it only if there has been alot of bondo work done.
http://www.evercoat.com/productDetail.aspx?pID=171

 

i have a quart of the black featherfill. so if i mixed that up and sprayed it over my whole car, i would be ok to drive around on it for a while? theres not a lot of bondo. just bunch of little spots from tiny dents. nothing major.

 

epoxy=water proof

high build like feather fill = not water proof

 

ahhhhhh i see.

eastwood is out of stock of epoxty primer and catalyst (i think thats an activator?).

so now whats a good brand of epoxy primer? how much do i need?

 

Standard primers are porous and water retentive. So, those ricers you see driving around with multicolored primer everything, they will be rust buckets much sooner...

Don't drive it with only primer, or your work was useless...

 

yeah thats why my fastback has any color on it. i did that only to seal all the bodywork just some single stage

 

I agree with Baddog. If you do drive it around with just the primer, be it epoxy or not, you will probably have to redo the work. You will get road oils and such on there that will affect the final paint if you don't get it all off.

If you decide to go with the epoxy, you will need to block sand the fill primer first like you were going to top coat it. Get it like you want it to look for the top coat. Then shoot the epoxy. then when you are ready for paint, all you have to do is scuff up the epoxy and go.

 

true66,

What size wheel and tire do you have? (front and back)

Thanks!