88 turbo swap: Shaving the molding away
So I never have liked the molding on the side of the car, I ripped it off today and started to fill it with dura glass and going to use fiber glass with top coat for the final finish. I think the molding is a eye swore and I think it will look good and clean when done. Still have a little bit of sanding left and then glass and top coat it, probably will be done tomorrow
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S4 has the good trim! Can I have your old trim if it's in good condition? Lol
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I've seen this done before... The car looks very strange without it.. I don't think it works. But if you like the result, that's what matters :)
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Car is going to look strange, especially if the door isn't perfectly smooth.
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Personally I dont like it haha I hope I don't hate it when its done:p worst come to worst I just put a stripe painted on across the car to break it up. (I'm painted it white) and my molding is in great shape!
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Does anyone have a pic of one done? I can't find one anywhere
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Im glad you like it, Ill be doing this mod right after I paint a huge penis on my hood.
Its your car, do as you wish, but man that is a lot of bondo. |
Have fun with that penis lol, dura glass is not bondo it's made with fiberglass and resin per mixed in it and use a activater to make it hard, it's like bondo but it's not
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give it a month, with some nice humidity, or even better is when it gets chilly :D
hope you prepped the paint to accept the resin...... Lloyd |
My car has the moldings shaved... Lemme see if i can find a pic
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Surprisingly this is the only.pic i have of it... I think it looks much more modernized without the moldings http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/...Florida_US.jpg
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Originally Posted by fc3sfreek
(Post 11107217)
Surprisingly this is the only.pic i have of it... I think it looks much more modernized without the moldings
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You should've welded a filler strip in, then used bondo to finish it. Either way, I don't care for the look.
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Looks like it was a nice car.
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Originally Posted by Rob XX 7
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Looks like it was a nice car.
huge mistake. |
I think the body looks bulbous without the trim lines breaking up the expanse and it looks weird that the bumper caps suddenly sprout trim lines that don't match anything.
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What trim lines on the bumper? Lol if u look closly my back bumper has them but i molded it so the molding kinna fade in instead of just randonly show up http://i1144.photobucket.com/albums/...03d95508f1.jpg
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Originally Posted by fc3sfreek
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What trim lines on the bumper? Lol...
Which has trim lines. That don't go anywhere. |
Thats because the back bumber looks awful without the moldings... But hey we all have our own cars we can all do what we think looks good
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Originally Posted by fc3sfreek
(Post 11107432)
... But hey we all have our own cars we can all do what we think looks good
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I think your car looks awesome man, and this isn't my first first time doing body work, I should of welded it but my welder is broken, and I have used this stuff before and it works really good, I spent a lot of time on the prep.
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Some plans fail in the execution, others in the planning.....this would be a case of the latter.
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Originally Posted by powerhour
(Post 11107439)
I think your car looks awesome man, and this isn't my first first time doing body work, I should of welded it but my welder is broken, and I have used this stuff before and it works really good, I spent a lot of time on the prep.
the issue will be expansion and contraction, out in the sun will be the worse place for your car to be, it will be a battle against time for your bodywork not to crack along the edge. I refused to do this for someone years ago based on this reason, he had someone else do it and just 2 years later all the moldings had already started to crack and come back. the darker the paint, the more time out in the sun- the worst this will be. good luck with your project, to each their own but im sorry man but in most people's eyes the car has been ruined. |
Mines been out in the sun for a little over a year. Still looks the way it did when i first got it done
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Originally Posted by fc3sfreek
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Mines been out in the sun for a little over a year. Still looks the way it did when i first got it done
pictures from today, not last year |
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