where can i find an overlay for our bowties? i wanna cover the gold with black and leave the chrome since im doing that to the ss badges, is there anyone out there that makes them? or where can i buy some vinyl

 

i don't think i've ever seen overlays..
everyone just paints them
and yes there's a how to with pics

 

the gold and chrome parts come apart if you heat it up pretty good, and then just paint it.

 

i dont feel like taping them up to paint em jsut wanna slap a vinyl overlay on em and be done with it but w/e ill figure something out

 

im sure you can cut to fit yourself, paint is pretty easy though

 

that is my point, you seperate the gold and chrome pieces so that you can spray the entire gold piece w/o taping then just get some good double sided tape and stick it back together.

 

I wanted to do the same exact thing with my bowties. Front and back. How would I take the front and back bowties off w/o damaging them? Especially the front one. Do you know?

 

the front is easy, just two bolts behind the bumper... the rear is tougher, but if you heat it up w/ a blow dryer and try twisting it off or if that doesnt work try some fishing line (remember the more you heat it, the easier it will be) good luck

 

Cool, thanks. And both the bowties can be heated apart so I can paint the gold black and leave the chrome as it is, right??

 

i have never took apart the rear one but im damn sure its the same.

 

Cool, and to put back together and back on the car, just double sided sticky tape. Alright, that's a will do tomorrow.

I'll post up some pics asap for ya Coblt SS Super so you can see what it looks like.

 

just so you no for the front youll need a 10mm wrench. thats if you cant get it off with your fingers.

 

Cool, thanks again.

 

i am "murdering" OUT MY CAR and what i did was debadge my cay except the bow ties then got some of that there vinal from a tint window shop then layed it over the whole bow tie, chrome and all. then took a very sharp razor blade with out cutting myself i found the out line of the chrome and cut on the indent thing they peeled the extra and called it a day looks great

 

^^^^^^^^pics???

 

Not yet. I'm working on it now actually. And if he put up a pic of the tint idea you could compare. hope he does.

Does anybody know how long it takes for those pieces to heat apart....damn, my hand is getting hot. lol

 

that's what I did, it's easy

 

Before:


And the after:


Sorry about it being a little blurry. I'll get better pics a little later but there you go!

 

looks good man...wanna do mine for me? lol

 

i hope you sanded it, cuz if you didnt in about 2-3 weeks u will notice it will start peeling...happened to me and now im fixing it

 

yea i did...with a really fine grit sand paper so the scratches in the plastic won't show up. I'm gonna do the same for the back bowtie as well.

lol, yea if you send me the emblems I will do it for you and send them back. It's not that hard, just time consuming cause it takes forever to get the two pieces apart. lol

 

Looks pretty good. I've been thinking about doing this, but just haven't really had the time.

But now I wanna see the vinyl ones.

(Next time, hold the badges about 1 foot farther away from the camera. If you notice, it was focusing in on the ground. Hehe )

 

Yea, I'll get some better pics tomorrow of it on the car. It was hard to tell how the pic was gonna come out cause it was really bright outside and the screen on the camera is small and hard to see from the sunlight.

How do you like my weed bed???

 

Its Beautiful!! I didn't realize people in other states had rock yards too. I thought it was just an Arizona thing. Its just so hot here that grass doesn't want to stay alive.

Yeah, I know it sucks how small screens keep you from being able to tell what the pic will look like.

 

No, we don't have a rock yard. It's just up next to the front of the house where we had mulch. But I get rid of the weeds in a day and the next they show right back up....

But here is a better picI hope of the front badge on the car.



Wow, the sunlight at certain angles makes my car look orange in pictures.