two quick questions,

one if you were doing the pvc pipe method, how long does the pipe fitted into the bezel have to be? or how short rather.

two - the flexible bumper filler then with minimal putty filler is the way to go without cracking?

 

1) don't know how long but you can probably dry fit it and trim as necessary
2) It's been a canadian winter and two summers almost now and no cracking so far.

 

Awesome, thanks

 

Is it 2 or 2 1/6" for the pvc pipe?

 

god sanding this thing sucks. More sanding to do today, then fill in with glazy putty as little as possible, then paint. HOPEFULLY finish it today. Not hard just time consuming

 

^ very true

 

People bitch about price too sanding part sucks on these things

 

Dunno what your charging now but your price is what forced me to make my own and intern started making them to sell um

 

got it done today. looks good from about 2 feet away. when you get up close though theres a few things im not 100% with. Mother of god though im done sanding. my girlfriend was like oh wow i want to start making these. im like have at it....

 

I mean no offense by this but. Yikes:s

 

Yeah, sanding is the worst part. I repainted mine twice because everytime I noticed something I missed and had to fix. Seriously, fix it before you put it in otherwise you'll have to look at it. What grit paper did you use?

 

is it just me, or does that look like its angled outwards

 

lol i told you it wasnt 100%. was my first one.

Its not outward its straight on when looking at it.

i used 220 to get it down, then 600 to finish. im thinking my issue was in the mixing portion of things. i was trying to mix good and apply to whole piece, i think im going to mix less amounts at a time, and work on one area at a time for the next one.

 

It probably didn't look that bad when you had sanded it too. People (and I include myself in this) think paint will fill in and hide stuff but it actually shows all the imperfections.

 

i primered it just to see imperfections 3-4 times. I think half my problem with it was I got to the primer stage and kept thinking all i gotta do is paint and im done and rushed the end. I did spend a **** ton of my day sanding it though.

 

once my parts come ill be attempting this, ive got a tri gauge pillar from my old LS, so ill be cutting that up

 

so six hours of sanding since my last pictures I came to this. VERY Happy with it.

Was how it was before I decided to put more time into it, cant really tell from this picture, but it wasnt pretty. But you get an overall idea vs stock









The blank one my girlfriend wants to do now into a dual. She said it looked cool.

 

Waaaay better, good job!

 

Thanks man

 

6 hrs of sanding?.... Your doing it wrong lol


If it wasn't for drying time i can knock one of these off in an hour tops

 

is it just me or would a dremel work well for sanding to some extent?

 

so was it 2 or 2 1/16

 

2 - 1/16

and cad - lol yeah youve made how many? was my first time making one, and my first time working with any of these materials. learned alot. gonna try another one next week after canada. should be able to bang out in half the time for sure

 

Here's the first one that I made... Haven't finished sanding yet. Then plasti-dip:

 

Works ok to remove any xtra filler,