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I have the paint im gonna use to do my interior and cage. I was gona use rattle can and white but I got some nice paint for free and this is part of my vision prior so im using it. I can use my spray gun good enough to do this but I dont see how the hell people are getting it all covered in coupes?

Im spraying the trunk and inside, and all the cage. So does anyone have anything they can help with this? I want to get it all covered. I figure the glass has to go.

Its ALOT lighter then this pic.

well usually it involves taking off all the glass off the car

tape up LOTS of newspaper, or something absorbant and thick?

Cages are a pita to paint. The fact is, the longer it takes you, the better it will look. You do not HAVE to take out the glass, we usually dont. However, it should take a solid day taping and masking it off, maybe more.

The cages we put in fit very tight, usually actually touching interior plastic, in these spots, its almost impossible to get paper around, so we run a strip of tape in a spot thats not touching through the cage, and slide it down until its squeezed between the cage and panel, keep doing this until you have a complete tape circle around the whole area touching.

Also, we use nothing but tape to cover all areas around the cage for about 3-4 inches, and only use paper for the surrounding areas. TAKE YOUR TIME! The tape gets expensive, but shittilly painted cages are uggo.

this may or may not be a stupid question but why not paint it before it goes in and then touch up the weld spots?

this is fine for bolt in cages, but for weld in cages you want to paint everything at once, to have the paint lay out even and clean, if you try to touch it up it wont work all that well and welding makeds the metal very hot so it will also damage paint already there.

(12-29-2009 08:13 PM)landins13 Wrote: [ -> ]you want to paint everything at once, to have the paint lay out even and clean, if you try to touch it up it wont work all that well

exactly

aaahhhh i see okay well that makes sense thanks!

that and the fact that my cage is from piper motorsports and it seriously is tight where paper almost doesnt fit through the gaps between pipe and body. No plaastic here. Im just painting the whole interior and cage together. I think im just gona tape off the windows inside,dash bar/wiring and just wing it. The rear will get tapped too.

paint the cage corey. with a super expensive brush