The racing beat springs on my Miata are nasty. All the paint is flaking off, and they are starting to rust a bit. What kind of paint should I use, and how should I clean them up? Maybe I could paint them with that rubbery wheel well paint stuff?
Joey
strip and powder coat.
what about spray on bed liner for pickups? Its pliable enough not to flake off.
I'd also like a paint option... The ones from my donor car have spots of rust coming through. I can swing free sandblasting... but paying to powdercoat eats into the 2009 budget...
Cheaper paint options?
splitime wrote:...but paying to powdercoat eats into the 2009 budget...
Not if you get the eastwood / HF DIY kit. The powder itself is cheap.
sand blast and rattlecan! It's worked for so many, for so long.
save the fancy powder coat for parts that will be seen a lot
I painted a set of springs with the sanding and rattle can method, I sold them so I don't know how they did in the long term, but in my informal tests the paint seemed very flexible. I also rattle canned a set of leaf springs which are now on the Samurai, and the paint is only coming off where the springs are abraded by the various things I drive over.
edit: Actually those leaf springs are brush paint followed by rattle can followed by clear coat.
DILYSI Dave wrote:splitime wrote:...but paying to powdercoat eats into the 2009 budget...
Not if you get the eastwood / HF DIY kit. The powder itself is cheap.
I've thought about that... I don't have a spare oven to bake in though... or the room for one :(
I've painted plenty, without issue. The bedliner would probably work better than paint, but your colour choices would be limited.
