Bowtie overlay vs painted bowtie

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Jun 7, 2010 | 08:40 PM

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Braven101

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hey where does one find a black overlay vinyl for the front and rear bowties? i cant seem to find them anywhere?

Jun 7, 2010 | 09:02 PM

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hey where does one find a black overlay vinyl for the front and rear bowties? i cant seem to find them anywhere?

Flaming Decals is the site, Idk if its .net or.com though haha

Jun 7, 2010 | 09:14 PM

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I don't see any for our bowties. I cracked the gold part of my back one trying to take it apart to paint.

Jun 7, 2010 | 09:17 PM

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I'd vote paint it, the vinyl is alright, I have it on my emblem which is now off the car, but it just feels, wrong, like I know theres little imperfections and bubbles, but no one else noticed, but it bothered me haha

Jun 7, 2010 | 09:17 PM

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i took off the rear one and vinyl wrapped the front one in black and used houseofgrafx.com for the black ss and it looks great check my pics if ya wanna see em

Jul 1, 2010 | 06:15 AM

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toeknee(ss)

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where does one purchase the paint for the bow ties and the brembos

Jul 1, 2010 | 07:14 AM

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But taping off the chrome is a royal pain in the ass. It took me a very long time just to do 1 bowtie. I can't imagine how long it would take to do multiple SS badges. I can see the vinyl being a great and easy option assuming you take your time with alignment and do it correctly. But to each his own.

it took me 5 mins to tape off the chrome...what were you doing???

Jul 1, 2010 | 11:53 AM

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half the time even if you paint the chrome paint wont stick to it. anyways definately paint it. i think a vinyl over lay wont contour to the lines in the bowtie that well. its not hard to do. i did mine black.

YES, paint. Make dure to sand over the face and the chrome.

Jul 1, 2010 | 04:42 PM

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you do know the gold emblem comes off of the chrome background. It's held up only with double sided tape. I painted my background red and the front black.

Jul 4, 2010 | 02:44 PM

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painted both mine. masking off the chrome is a pain tho

Jul 4, 2010 | 05:36 PM

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you do know the gold emblem comes off of the chrome background. It's held up only with double sided tape. I painted my background red and the front black.

Thats how i did mine.