Race Car Interior Paint

Are you sure they weren't referring to McMasters? In that case, they would be the supplier and not the manufacture.

We use McMaster all the time. They are fantastic.

 

Most race cars I've seen/owned have interiors in gray, white or body color... in a durable gloss paint not flat (hard to clean and maintain appearance) or black (hot)... YMMV

Best,
Tom

 

Best answer! No Flat and definitely not Black

 

+1! Life savers when I owned my shop.

 

The interior of a car has a lot of area that is difficult to cover well with a spray can. Paint should be applied using a spray gun with air supply. You can apply a lot more paint, more quickly, and with much better durability. Use a paint with a curing agent and the results are 10X better than a spray can.

As for colour, it is up to you but from my experience a gloss light grey is best on all the sheet metal and tubing with the dash of course being a non-reflective black or dark grey. The reasons are as follows:

1. Gloss paints are the easiest to clean which makes crack detection easiest. White is a pain to clean and it stains easily.
2. Light grey in gloss bearly reflects light anyways
3. Light colours keep the interior cool

Hope this helps.

 

Don't do flat black! Mine are silver.

 

I painted mine white when I painted my car white but didn't put the clear coat on the interior...flat wasw a big mistake because it is so hard to clean. When the fire extinguisher went off in the car, I vacuumed and vacuumed and still didn't get it up. I think if it was gloss I could of brushed it right out.

 

I am a weight weenie and err on the side of function over cosmetics. I have painted lots of car sections before. So lets say you spray on a qt of primer here a qt of color there then a qt of clear to get a durable finish. So does anyone know if those 3 qts add 3 qts of weight to the car? How much weight volitalizes off into the air? I hate to think I just added 8 lbs to my total weight.

 

Good question, I'd bet at least half the weight is evaporating liquids.

 

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