What's gone wrong with my wrinkle paint?,with pics

[con1981]

I did my inlet manifold yesterday and it came out perfect like this

So to day I cracked on and did my fuel rail guard unfortunately it's come out all glossy and no where near as finally wrinkled as the manifold.

What's gone wrong? Not enough paint? I used the same tin for both do it can't be a difference in batch

 

[Dan The Top Bloke]

only thing i could think of would be maybe that it effected the paint when you re sealed it and stored it overnight?

 

[con1981]

Gonna have to strip it and start again [emoji22]

 

[dangerous dave]

There are some many things people do to cars that make them look sh1t..

This isn't one of them... I sat with brake cleaner and engine degreaser on the Clio the other week and it still looked poopy.. This looks like an OE looking solution..

The top bit looks pukka... The lower might have had more contamination, strip clean, wash, degrease and leave to bake in the sun before trying again..

I've painted a few sets of wheels and leaving them to cook in the sun really helps after wet and drying, cleaning etc.

 

[con1981]

Cheers mate. Time to get some paint stripper and start again. I'll leave it overnight and see if it cures a bit more. The inlet manifold cured within 5hrs like that so I'm not hopeful as the guard has already had that time but hey ho

 

[Ol’ Tarby]

Inlet looks brilliant mate, think I'll do doing that with mine

 

[Freeman13]

When i did mine i baked my inlet in the oven came out well just smelt so bad and to achieve a similar crinkle on the fuel rail cover i baked it unpainted then sprayed it straight out the oven

came out fine on mine.

 

[con1981]

I'll give that a try. Off to get some nitro mors and more paint!

 

[Langy]

Where do you get the paint? Inlet looks good

 

[con1981]

Where do you get the paint? Inlet looks good

Halfords do it . £8 a tin. U can get the cut version on eBay think it's about the same price

 

[Langy]

Cheers, think I'll give it a go myself