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Old 03-20-2010, 08:53 PM
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Originally Posted by miataspeed2005
You should paint my bumper :-)
Spray can of red, spray can of clear lol why haven't you painted that dam thing yet!
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Old 03-20-2010, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by stranges12712
Spray can of red, spray can of clear lol why haven't you painted that dam thing yet!
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Originally Posted by Fran82
Nice work on the hood, that looks good. Is the vent aluminum too, so it can stay polished or brushed?
The vent is cast, but it polishes up the same as the aluminum hood...
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Old 03-20-2010, 10:11 PM
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I want it to look nice
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Old 03-20-2010, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by miataspeed2005
I want it to look nice
Nice is over rated... I just want my car to be like a 10ft'er, so the rattle can job was good enough. I know where your coming from though
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Car looks way better sans stripe and the black rear top area looks great. You should keep the two tone them and move it to the front and paint the lower rocker white.. Did I miss the post, how did you get the lids attached to the hood?

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Originally Posted by jacob300zx
Car looks way better sans stripe and the black rear top area looks great. You should keep the two tone them and move it to the front and paint the lower rocker white.. Did I miss the post, how did you get the lids attached to the hood?

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Thanks dude, yea, the rockers will be going white. I used epoxy to attach the lids...gobs of it ...then just some bondo to blend things out a little
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Are you going to the uconn car show on the 10th? I'm going fo sho.
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Old 03-21-2010, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by miataspeed2005
Are you going to the uconn car show on the 10th? I'm going fo sho.
Yea I'll probably head up. We should see if we can get everyone to meet somewhere and head up there together
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Old 03-21-2010, 02:44 PM
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Gotta love the weather!! I made up some clips/tabs to hold the new vent in place and went out for a drive. Heres a couple shots of the car as she sits now with the vent....outside of the garage.

The z34 vent is nice too since it already had threaded studs for mounting
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Old 03-21-2010, 09:28 PM
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The finished polished vent....took the better part of 2.5hrs with the same procedure I did for the hood

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I put the right hand vent up for comparison to show what I started with....

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Are you painting the rockers white?
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Old 03-22-2010, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by stranges12712
Are you painting the rockers white?
Yea, thats on the list of things to do....just trying to finish up everything one item at a time
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Great work!
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you need to wrap the top, hood, and headlight covers in that material... would really finish the look... or paint to hood and headlights black...

but the polished looks so sweet... Man, what a quandry... your car not mine.
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Old 03-23-2010, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by codeman583
you need to wrap the top, hood, and headlight covers in that material... would really finish the look... or paint to hood and headlights black...

but the polished looks so sweet... Man, what a quandry... your car not mine.

Wrap my carbon top?!
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Originally Posted by codeman583
you need to wrap the top, hood, and headlight covers in that material... Would really finish the look... Or paint to hood and headlights black...

But the polished looks so sweet... Man, what a quandry... Your car not mine.
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Old 03-23-2010, 10:22 PM
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f-me I forgot you had the carbon top! nevermind.... I should be so lucky.
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So when is this car hitting the track. Looks like it would be fast as hell
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Old 03-24-2010, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by 02semiata
So when is this car hitting the track. Looks like it would be fast as hell
Thats a good question...I'd still gotta get a roll bar, helmet, and get a couple other things squared away. I wish I had'nt spent so much money already this year....I probably wont make it to a track day till next year
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Shame on you! She deserves better... next time I'm up that way I'll take her for a track date!
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