Painting my 914, need compressor/ paint set up Options

[Always Looking]

This will most likely be a one time deal, so I don't want to spend too much ($300 or so total?) Any suggestions? I was thinking the HF $150 compressor (but low scfm - Too low?). Also, I was thinking flat black initially. Then maybe a color later, if i decide to go crazy on the bodywork.

Any help is appreciated.

[914GT]

QUOTE (Always Looking @ Apr 24 2005, 02:35 PM)

I just looked at the sears 25 gallon. The stats are SCFM Delivery At 40 psi 5.6 SCFM SCFM Delivery At 90 psi 5.1 SCFM . Isn't this too low for the guns? ps. smilies not working so, Cheers.

You might get by with this small of a compressor and HVLP gun, but the compressor will run almost continuously to keep up. If you go a little bigger to about 8.5 scfm @ 90 psi you'll have more capacity and the compressor will run about half the time for typical rate you paint a car. With these small compressors it's even more important you have a water trap and filter at the end of about 30'-50' of copper line (or at least some rubber hose) before you go to your spray gun hose. Putting a filter right at the compressor does not work. Otherwise you'll be spitting water droplets out of your gun and putting fisheyes in the paint. The other thing is to make sure your hose after the filter never gets contaminated with oil. Don't ever use a hose that's been hooked up to an inline oiler to your gun. HVLP guns need a lot of volume at low pressure (around 23 psi at the gun) so go with the largest size hose to minimize pressure drop to the gun.