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

 

Nice! Good looking emblems.

 

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Cool work brah.

 

looks good man, hopefully I'll be painting my calipers soon too.

 

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?

 

Plasitidip=less mess and masking

Duplicolor caliper kit is a brush on=no masking

looks good though...

the sale on the avacados looks good

 

Cool.

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!!!

 

after 8 yrs on the road i had to redo my emblems. this time in plasti-dip..........

 

not bad at all, i have yet to pull the trigger on painting my calipers black ... they are starting to get that greenish moldy color from washing the car so much lol!

 

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

 

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!

 

lolol I know right


I just take my emblems out paint them and put them back on. easier.

 

Plasti Dip is the way to go for emblems. Takes all of an hour to do, and you can easily go back to chrome.