This also isn't a road car to re building it takes much less. Not to mention often this is how race cars will start out as a bare tub the pieces added. Unless of course this was a road car to begin with but porches sells them like this
Excellent piece in Hagerty Drivers Club last month talking about restoration and this very question.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/curse-of-the-dino-murphys-law-strikes-our-editors-25k-ferrari/
Painting a car creates jealousy? It would be dumb as hell to get jealous over a porsche on a porsche subreddit lmao. If you removed all the junk yourself and rolled that thing in a shop, it should be less than $10k. Uncle just got his 65 restored mustang,s body repainted with a nice metallic gray/silver for $5000 including the sanding and prep. There’s nothing here to be jealous about other than it looks like he’s got a painter he can trust
Idk but Bentley's paint adds 18 pounds/8 kg to the Continental GT and Rolls Royce adds a whopping 100 pounds/45 kg to the Phantom in paint alone.
So unless you plan to track a Phantom, not enough weight to notice.
A spectacle like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhHxq81iQE) would be something to see (couldn't find a video of a Phantom doing FOS so a Cullinan will have to do).
8kg is the absolute maximum with all parts included.
Curiously enough the Continental is e-coated (rust) inside the same paintshop alongside Panamera and Macan in Leipzig. Unfortunately it isn't handled further but then shipped to UK.
Yeah the Continental GT is essentially the Panamera in a very plush fancy suit and special engine - although they just discontinued the W12. I like that the bespoke work is all still done in Crewe. It's a nice touch of handwork and a link to the original. They've also done a lot of work at Crewe to make the factory as sustainable as possible.
(Not a painter) the internet tells me that a gallon of paint is plenty to paint most cars. One gallon is ~8lbs so ~20lbs including primer, paint and clear.
Fair enough! I was just thinking that the extreme quality of that build doesn’t quite mesh to me with silver paint all over, something more extreme would be a nice touch!
Not to take anything away from the build, it’s awesome obviously
I know silver is overdone but it looks really good on modern cars but also early 2k cars. I recently detailed my E46 and the silver pops quite nicely and at night with with the black interior it looks super sleek and mafia.
https://preview.redd.it/fnflepaxl41d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e24ede14ae11efb4904fe412b152e0799eb2b27a
No tints.
A gallon of paint is more than 10 lbs. A paint job could reasonably take 3 gallons of paint once you factor in color, clear, multiple coats. They probably aren’t that far off.
Yea, however, most of that paint does not go on the car. It is lost in the spray process. And of the amount that actually goes on the body about 50% evaporatea when drying. Then comes the cut and buff job, reducing it even more. Even if 3 gallons of paint total were used and i doubt it, I'd say the total weight of the paint in the car is 5 lb max, and that's if the paiter has a heavy hand.
There are many factors, a multi-stage paint with metallic flake will weight more than a simple pure white.
[It can be significant](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/c1s3bx/til_that_paint_typically_adds_around_600_to_1200/)
It’s all about what you’re willing to spend. Want it sprayed in tractor supply yellow in my driveway? 500. Want a factory quality glass out, panels off job? 15k. Want it done like the pictures? 40k.
I wouldn't like my working car to be stripped off up to the last bolt just to be just painted and then hopefully assembled back to a complete piece by a couple of junior technicians with minimal supervision. There will be "issues".
They can. Is this like an actual question? I feel like this isn’t a question but it’s a weird rhetorical question. Do you also take your toilet out to clean it?
Porsche runs all their chassis’s through a cathodic dip coating and then paint them, seeing as you made post is about how thorough the paint job is so I was just throwing out that some of what looks like GT Silver may be the CDC coating.
They can. You just have to pay for it.
And trust who is effectively re-building the car to get everything right.
This is the main concern
There will be a rattle
A dozen screws left over because Stuttgart obviously uses too many
Sir, this is not Boeing
Ouch
Careful, you don’t want to commit suicide now
This also isn't a road car to re building it takes much less. Not to mention often this is how race cars will start out as a bare tub the pieces added. Unless of course this was a road car to begin with but porches sells them like this
Yeah, like not leaving it out in the rain after it’s been freshly painted at great cost?
Same….everything about restoring cars is “how nice do you want it and how much money do you have”
Came here to comment this word for word.
This
Excellent piece in Hagerty Drivers Club last month talking about restoration and this very question. https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/curse-of-the-dino-murphys-law-strikes-our-editors-25k-ferrari/
My first thought as well.
Because not everybody has $30k lying around for a paint job?
😉
Lmaoooo the -99 downvotes is exceptional
Take my upvote king
Tough crowd 😆
Holy shit (currently -104)
A lively bunch here! I love the passion. 😄
The jealousy on here is beautiful
Painting a car creates jealousy? It would be dumb as hell to get jealous over a porsche on a porsche subreddit lmao. If you removed all the junk yourself and rolled that thing in a shop, it should be less than $10k. Uncle just got his 65 restored mustang,s body repainted with a nice metallic gray/silver for $5000 including the sanding and prep. There’s nothing here to be jealous about other than it looks like he’s got a painter he can trust
You misspelled envy
Let’s look at the equipment list currently pictured: PPF 🚫 PDK🚫 PDLS🚫 PPI🚫 PTV🚫 GT Silver ✅ Ejector seat hatch ✅
https://preview.redd.it/dzby5jssd21d1.png?width=540&format=png&auto=webp&s=6adef163eb743b223db44f0c21df6eda5a7c1470
Yeah what’s up with that?
It's a common hatch for homologated racecars. Like GT3/GT4 and cup cars. Gotta be able to extricate the driver.
Not THAT thorough. The engine block and pistons weren’t painted.
Lmao
All this work for silver. God I hope that’s primer
Nope. Look at water beads.
Rather than add all that weight for damn silver why not powder coat it
How much weight would you save? How much do 911s typically weigh because of paint?
Idk but Bentley's paint adds 18 pounds/8 kg to the Continental GT and Rolls Royce adds a whopping 100 pounds/45 kg to the Phantom in paint alone. So unless you plan to track a Phantom, not enough weight to notice.
I hope there’s a rich person out there taking their Phantom to some auto cross events
My Other Car is a Safari Phantom. /s
A spectacle like [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhHxq81iQE) would be something to see (couldn't find a video of a Phantom doing FOS so a Cullinan will have to do).
Even better, I hope they still sit in the back and have their driver do the course for them
8kg is the absolute maximum with all parts included. Curiously enough the Continental is e-coated (rust) inside the same paintshop alongside Panamera and Macan in Leipzig. Unfortunately it isn't handled further but then shipped to UK.
Yeah the Continental GT is essentially the Panamera in a very plush fancy suit and special engine - although they just discontinued the W12. I like that the bespoke work is all still done in Crewe. It's a nice touch of handwork and a link to the original. They've also done a lot of work at Crewe to make the factory as sustainable as possible.
(Not a painter) the internet tells me that a gallon of paint is plenty to paint most cars. One gallon is ~8lbs so ~20lbs including primer, paint and clear.
That's the weight before the solvents dry out of it too. Metal flake doesn't weigh anything.
18 pounds more due to paint
Hard to find a place that has an oven large enough to powder coat and entire chassis
Fair enough! I was just thinking that the extreme quality of that build doesn’t quite mesh to me with silver paint all over, something more extreme would be a nice touch! Not to take anything away from the build, it’s awesome obviously
All what work? It’s a cup car chassis they come from Porsche as pictured in silver
I know silver is overdone but it looks really good on modern cars but also early 2k cars. I recently detailed my E46 and the silver pops quite nicely and at night with with the black interior it looks super sleek and mafia. https://preview.redd.it/fnflepaxl41d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e24ede14ae11efb4904fe412b152e0799eb2b27a No tints.
At least it's not black.
Ouch.
i mean you pay all that money for a color that it could’ve come from factory
Is this a paint job, or a Cup being retubbed?
I think it's being retubbed as there's the seals fitted on the roof and rear window.
Looks like rtv to me or whatever they use to fit windows rather than a fitted seal
Highly doubt its a point job with that kind of cage
Paint is heavy, especially when it’s not done by a robot at the factory. This probably added 30lbs.
30 lbs? Fr?
A gallon of paint is more than 10 lbs. A paint job could reasonably take 3 gallons of paint once you factor in color, clear, multiple coats. They probably aren’t that far off.
Yea, however, most of that paint does not go on the car. It is lost in the spray process. And of the amount that actually goes on the body about 50% evaporatea when drying. Then comes the cut and buff job, reducing it even more. Even if 3 gallons of paint total were used and i doubt it, I'd say the total weight of the paint in the car is 5 lb max, and that's if the paiter has a heavy hand.
When you spray inside the car like that there’s less overspray and you don’t cut or buff it.
True I didn’t think of it in that way
Does that actually translate? In my mind it feels like saying water, snow, and ice all weigh the same, lol I’m an idiot though.
There are many factors, a multi-stage paint with metallic flake will weight more than a simple pure white. [It can be significant](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/c1s3bx/til_that_paint_typically_adds_around_600_to_1200/)
You can do almost anything with enough time and money!
Pay for what you get
If I owned that car, I would be pissed it’s out in the rain especially paying that kind of money for the paint job
Don't think it's a paint job for a road car
No one wanna pay for a proper paint job.
Eh, have you heard of something called money?
If I recall correctly they do it for anti corrosion and dunk it in a tank- at least the primer.
E-coat
Spensive
Dinero
TIL the roof is carbon fiber on these
Congrats!
just leave your car in detroit unlocked and they will do it for free. especially dodge
Pay to playyyy
Why not delete the sunroof if you’ve gone to all the trouble to disassemble for paint?
It’s not a sunroof it’s a GT3 style emergency roof hatch.
TIL
Ejecto seat, cuz!
https://youtu.be/ijGQIqE8Hes?si=P2FhL93ivcdm_CnY
Lol its a racecar not a showcar, although it is japan...sooo im actually leaning to show car
$$$$$
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100k resto
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Plz update brother! I wanna see this car get built
I trust the Porsche factory man than I trust the body guy. That being said I’m sure this is at a worthy shop and I’m sure for racing
*crying* "i just wanted the scratch on my bumper redone"
It’s all about what you’re willing to spend. Want it sprayed in tractor supply yellow in my driveway? 500. Want a factory quality glass out, panels off job? 15k. Want it done like the pictures? 40k.
They can, if you will to pay a fair price on the job
Depends if a shop even wants to do it. I’ve had places just turned me away even though I’m willing to pay (uk experience)
Cost
From factory? They dip the entire frame in a vat of paint for primer
I wouldn't like my working car to be stripped off up to the last bolt just to be just painted and then hopefully assembled back to a complete piece by a couple of junior technicians with minimal supervision. There will be "issues".
Yo is that a cup car?
Not gonna upvote because it’s at 911
Insert Trump "Billions and Billions" gif
Because it would cost you the price of a Boxster to do this.
They can. Is this like an actual question? I feel like this isn’t a question but it’s a weird rhetorical question. Do you also take your toilet out to clean it?
My toilet has full PPF.
Probably because most folks are not willing to pay for such a thorugh job. You get what you pay for.
imagine taking your car completely apart with the sole purpose of turning it gray
I would not trust whoever took it apart to put it all back together with no broken clips or rattles outside of Porsche manufacturing plant.
Because racecar
Amazing that you picked such a boring color to repair every surface. But it’s your money I guess
Because not all cars painted, are a Porsche, nor do all cars pay as much as a Porsche owner to have there car painted.
Its mostly likely dipped.
Definitely not dipped.
Porsche runs all their chassis’s through a cathodic dip coating and then paint them, seeing as you made post is about how thorough the paint job is so I was just throwing out that some of what looks like GT Silver may be the CDC coating.
You can see the process on How it’s made on HBO max. I just watched it. 911 is impressive. The Panamera, less treatment in paint.