At this point the weldings for that area were pretty much done and I grounded most of the seams. I couldn't reach and ground all of the seams but those aren't visible anyway so I just cleaned them up. I did some slight sand blasting again to get the flaking rust away and also removed the paint from wheel well etc and prepped the area for painting. I don't have any good pic from that work. One I got is after first bucket of sand.
At the time I was shooting the por the temp was -3 celcius
and I was bit scared if the paint would cure at all. It did cure but took pretty long time (4-5 hours or so before dust dry) and I had to leave back to Tampere before I could shoot another layer so there is only one layer atm. I might shoot one more layer during next weekend if the temp stays near 0 celcius.
I had one infra red heater and one heater fan to keep the surface of the car atleast bit warm while I was painting. After 3 days I called to my parents to check the paint out and it had cured rock hard, although I have no idea if it will stay on the metal. I'll need to check it out with knife or something.
I'm also going to do empiric test to see what kind of prepping new metal needs to get the por 15 adhere it. I have sanded the smooth surfaces with 180 grit sandpaper before painting but it seems that the adhesion isn't the best possible. Much better than smooth surface but could be better. I can't use the metal ready in all places so I'll try some things out and do some test painting. I'll report how it goes. If anyone has any suggestions or first hand knowledge, please inform me.
