Wait...Red_Zed...
You said that you replaced the rusted parts yourself. Are you referring to the slender black X-brace rear and single-brace front?
If so, yeah, it's just paint, and yeah, it will rust. For a comparison, the control-arms on my G20 look similarly painted, etc. and I bet are even a similar alloy. Yes, when scraped they rust a bit, but I bet unless I drove it through salt every day it would be fine. If not, it does look like an easy fix as you noted. Pull them, spray with truck-bed liner, replace, done.
Was it some other component you meant?
As to the orange peal. Dude. I own a 'vette. Orange-peal is LITERALLY part of the "feature" on that car (No, I am not kidding, the clear is purposefully sprayed so thick that on the SMC panels near the bases it ALLLLMOST runs. This is by spec, and it makes for a car that doesn't chip like a 370Z, but it's not "pretty" like the Z's paint, either. Hence my desire to wrap the hell out of it. No, this is not GM marketing BS. I was at the plant and observed in detail.)
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