Ok, so I used SPI epoxy on the bare metal, then 2k and blocked it, then epoxy as sealer. I used dynacoat base with dynacoat clear pro, akzonobel products. I would have used SPI paint but I had bought the dynacoat stuff before I discoverd SPI products. I used the correct activator for the clear, mixed it 4:1 as the tech sheets recomend, however In the past I never used a mixing cup or stick, I use a small mixing cup to get my parts, so 4 cups of clear and one cup of activator, it probably isn't the most accurate way to mix paint but it's worked fine for almost 30 years of painting vehicles, I will be using mixing cups from now on. I used slow activator and reducer. So I painted it the last week of august, left it dry a few days then sanded and buffed, that went great, paint looks very nice. after I was done with the buffing I would set it out in the sun when we had sunny days but now it's september in WI so the temps weren't all that warm. It probably had a few weeks in the sun, temps ranged between 55 and 65 degrees with an occasional warmer day of around 70. The car sat in my unheated garage all winter, I've been bringing it out in the sun as much as I can but we've had a lack of sun and the temps haven't been all that warm yet. I'm guessing it probably had around 30-45 days of full sun but temps werent all that warm. As far as number of coats, I did 3 but 3 very heavy coats, something I've never done before, I have always done first coat light, little heavier on the second and heavier on the last coat. I knew I was going to be sanding and buffing so I wanted to make sure I had enough paint so I didn't burn through. I probably should have done a longer flash time between coats with such heavy coats but I didn't. I did but a lot of basecoat but each coat was flashed off before the next and I waited about 3 hours before spraying the clear.