The car is go-cart-able and the electrical is done/tested.
I ground all the seams, used a Dremel to grind out any gelcoat or bubbles, filled with West Systems epoxy and then a few go-arounds with Rage Gold and block-sanding.
The next step for me is to spray Slick Sand Primer and sand and spray and sand.
Am I ready for this step?
The goals for the car are a 10-footer track car / street flogger. I figure that I have about 40 hours in the body so far (all this week). The final color will be white in single-urethane.
The body FEELS smooth but my hands are not trained for this. I was tempted to float the whole body in Rage but I suppose that's what the Slick Sand does. The doors have been fit and I'm not going to fill anything between the body and the doors- they look good to me and it took hours to get the doors hung/sanded to fit well (enough). I'll be cleaning up the door-hinge cutouts.
I would suggest you spray Epoxy Primer over any of the places that you have sanded through the Gel Coat and over all of you Rage work. Do this prior to your Primer / Surfacer. This will help prevent any of your repair work blistering up when it gets heat on it...like the sun. Then put a Gide Coat on your Slick Sand, use a Long Board with 220 to level it all out. More Slick Sand, Guide Coat, Long Board w/ 400 / 600 / then your single stage.
Jeff at Whitby Motors is the pro to answer this...your can trust his advice. He has seen and done it all with these cars.
Wow, your not worried about getting all this work damaged before you will apply paint? Seems like the opportune time now to paint it as well.
Looks great!!
Some primers can absorb humidity and other chemicals (Ie Oils,tar,bug guts ect) from the air you may be better of just spraying color now or risk possibly priming and sanding 1 or 2 more times.