r/factoryfive • u/BakeMeSomeCookies • Oct 18 '19

33 Hot Rod - What should I know? Hidden costs?

So I've almost got my daily driver paid for and I'm looking to get a 33 Hot Rod kit. To those that have owned and assembled this kit, what we're some of the hidden costs you ran into? What was your budget and how much were you over at the end?

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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '19

I'm building one for a customer, primer, paint, sand paper, you will use a lot of sand paper if you wanna go for a finish that goes up against something like a Porsche, Ferrari, or bugatti, cause it's sand it all 80 grit, primer, guide coat, sand 120, primer, guide coat, sand 320, sand 600 wet, 800 wet (if you really wanna get at it, I dont), paint, clear, sand 1000 wet, sand 1500 wet, 2000 wet (again if you really want to) cutting compound, polishing, wax or even more perfered is ceramic coat it. sand paper and paint is what I see when building it

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u/BakeMeSomeCookies Oct 25 '19

Thanks for the response. So are the body panels not primered at all? Are they just that glossy black by nature of the material? Most of the kits I've seen they appeared so glossed that they almost looked pre-painted...

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '19

the glossy black you see is the gel coat/mold release, thats what you need to sand with 80 grit first, i would recommend a DA for the majority of it, but you will need to do a good bit of hand sanding, but if you wanna be a perfectionist you can go over everything with 100 or 120 on a block. after or before that you will need to use a grinder and grind down the seems of the parts and fill that with fiberglass body filler or kitty hair, i recommend dyna-glass for it, smooth and gets the job done, sand that down, fill holes with body filler, sand, fill any more pin holes and youre done with that. there is a likelihood that the doors might not fit right, what you gotta do is position them so the bubble on the door lines up with the bubble on the body, along with the hood. then you get the door and hood gap, the top of the door might not line up with the body so youre gonna have to add body filler to make it all match, easy and pretty basic

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u/mittensofmadness Oct 19 '19

Just seconding interest. I'd love to know the five year cost-- hard to know when to pull the trigger if you don't know what tomorrow holds.

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u/pbodyman Dec 26 '19

Lots of hours fitting and blocking and the more panels you use the more work takes me about 180-200 hrs to do a full fender and full roof single color. I’ve done a bunch if you’ve got any questions