Winter Mod Thread...
#77
02-27-2011, 10:24 AM
I'm so pissed! I spent 2 nights working on the bezels as far as painting them the two colors I wanted to use. I primered the bezels and let them sit for a solid 24 hours next to the heater to make sure they were fully dry before applying any paint. I painted the projector shrouds a sick satin nickel with a real fine metal flake in it. It looked amazing when it was fully dry. I masked off the painted shrouds with blue painters tape so I could paint the rest of the bezels black. I applied the gloss black paint to the bezels and let it dry for 24hrs before attempting to remove the blue tape on the shrouds. I was preparing everything for a couple coats of gloss clearcoat to finish it off. As I was removing the blue tape from the shrouds it started pulling the metal flake paint off the shrouds.
I had to strip all the paint and primer off the shrouds and bezels last night with a paint thinner so I can start all over again tonight with the paint work. I stopped at Home Depot last night and picked up a different type of painters tape called "delicate surface" which has a lower adhesion rate or something so hopefully it doesn't pull up the paint this time. I was hoping to have these finished tonight or tomorrow afternoon so I could put them on car but now that I lost like 3 days worth of work I don't see that happening until early next week
FML
I had to strip all the paint and primer off the shrouds and bezels last night with a paint thinner so I can start all over again tonight with the paint work. I stopped at Home Depot last night and picked up a different type of painters tape called "delicate surface" which has a lower adhesion rate or something so hopefully it doesn't pull up the paint this time. I was hoping to have these finished tonight or tomorrow afternoon so I could put them on car but now that I lost like 3 days worth of work I don't see that happening until early next week
FML
#78
02-27-2011, 06:40 PM
Thanks for the advice! I ended up buying another type of tape that was for "delicate surfaces" and it had a lower adhesion rating and it worked flawlessly. I posted a ton of pics in my thread earlier today if you wanna see how they came out
#79
02-28-2011, 01:44 PM
#80
02-28-2011, 03:10 PM
#82
02-28-2011, 03:35 PM
its killing me waiting to install this damn turbo kit and get my car to the shop to put the body and my carbon fiber on. But I gotta wait for this crappy weather to be over and done with for the year before I can begin the install. Probably looking at May or June before I can get around to the install now that I'm moving for April 1st
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#84
03-11-2011, 12:16 PM
tomorrow is the big day for body parts!!!
Kuruma front bumper
carbon fiber nismo rear diffuser
carbon fiber roof spoiler
MG2 carbon fiber trunk lid
all going on the car between tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
Picking up my 19" Racing Harts tomorrow too
this weekend couldn't come fast enough!
Kuruma front bumper
carbon fiber nismo rear diffuser
carbon fiber roof spoiler
MG2 carbon fiber trunk lid
all going on the car between tonight and tomorrow afternoon.
Picking up my 19" Racing Harts tomorrow too
this weekend couldn't come fast enough!
#86
03-11-2011, 12:42 PM
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