Blacked out emblems/Painted calipers/Personalized plates
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GalacticToast
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Blacked out emblems/Painted calipers/Personalized plates
Thought I would share some pics of recent small mods made to my 8. I painted all the emblems satin black, I also painted my brake calipers red and got black personalized license plates. Enjoy! Also I apologize for the shitty pics Im still rockin a cell phone camera
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black on black looks good.
I thought there was an easier way with the plasti-dip thing.
How long did it take with the masking?
I thought there was an easier way with the plasti-dip thing.
How long did it take with the masking?
Last edited by pistonhater; 05-09-2012 at 11:16 AM.
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Yeah, I was referring to the badges mostly. It seems like the OP spent a loooong of time masking around those badges. But they turned out great!!!
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GalacticToast
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Yeah it took about 5 hours to do the whole project. I know about plastidip and did alot of research into it but for every good story there was a horror story to accompany it, I wanted something that was fairly permanent since I am lazy and had to talk myself into doing this project in the first place I only wanted to have to do it once lol but all in all it really wasnt to bad to mask off. I used a flat head screw driver to push the tape into all the little crevices and then used an exacto knife to cut it flush. I also looked into duplicolor's brush on kit for the calipers but being that I have a very unsteady hand I would of had to mask everything off anyways so I opted to do the spray kit. I bought a little hand held steamer from walgreens for about 30 bucks and used that to clean all the grease and brake dust off the calipers then I sanded them with 320 grit paper and steamed them one more time. then for good measure I sprayed them off with duplicolor's brake caliper cleaner then masked them off and painted them. I put quite a bit of paint on them, I used 2 cans of paint, half a can a caliper. makes for about 6 light coats per caliper, but all the work was worth it, the paint is very smooth and covers all the nooks and crannys. I am very happy with the way it turned out
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Great Job, and that custom plate omg!!!! i have a custom plate but couldnt convince them to let me do it in red or black (Harleys colours) only governemnt issue white and blue so im doing a custom plate cover, but that looks sooo hot!
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