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gabriel_dsm

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Mar 27, 2014
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Okay im stuck on Modifications for my car its a 95 Eclipse gs non turbo besides the obvious selling and buying a GST or GSX Im just going to enjoy my 95 for now but i dont know what else to do to it! i already bought a greddy exhaust(not installed yet) a Gsx spoiler(not installed) and to be honest im tapped out dont know what else i plan on dipping my wheels a Vintage gold

Also want to do my hood black while i save up for carbon fiber! have extra black plasti dip laying around but how many cans do i use for my hood?

if anyone have opinions on what i could do or something help me out any comment is appreciated even negative one so come on
 

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Well you can get a 95 GSXLOL
But on a real note it will Probly take about 2-3 cans to do the hood. You want to remember to do it in decently thin coats and let them dry fully in between. The more coats the stronger and more durable the plasti-dip will be. But the plasti dip is a matte finish, you can also put glossifier on top to shine a little bit and it will make it easier to wash and harder for dirt to stick. If you are gonna get a new one later anyway I'd just paint it with normal paint just looks better. Just be ware with plasti-dip it can and will get jacked up from road debris quickly and the finish can be spotty due to the matte finish so doing your whole hood with a rattle can will more than likely leave stroke marks so take it slow and even. Good luck:D
 
It would take an easy 3 cans. like the above poster said, do it is thin coats in long even sprays. I've seen a few people try and do a quicky job and it almost always turns out looking like you spray bombed it.
 
When I did my hood I ended using 4 cans of matte black. Its best to remove hood and paint at a vertical angle. If you try to do it while the hood is on the car once the can is about halfway empty it will begin to splatter due to the can not absorbing enough dip. Also, make sure your coats over lap evenly! I would suggest to buy the tip which offers a wider spray for more coverage.
Good luck!
 
yes i have plans to do a 97-99 body conversion soon hopefully! to answer that Talon steering wheel question to be honest i dont know i got the car like that aha and 3 cans okay ill remove the hood and spray it do you guys recommend a spray gun. or just the can itself
 
I don't think the plasti dipped hood will look good. You're setting yourself up for disappointment. The texture won't match your cars' paint texture and it will look like a junkyard hood.

Get on ebay- Buy some black vinyl wrap (black gloss) and wrap your hood in high gloss black vinyl. It will look epic, cause you less headache, and you'll enjoy it much more.
Or you could even wrap it in carbon fiber.
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^ Wrapped hood.
 
^agreed, if your car was a mate color then it would match more, heck even with 5 cans of glossifier on my trucks bumper its not mate but still no way near glossy.
 
The carbon fiber wrap is and looks fake, will not shine like a carbon hood or paint job. As for the gloss vinal wrap I havnt seen it myself but I'm sure it'd be great for a summer or so in the sun. There is uv protection in clear coats for paint and carbon hoods and I doubt vinal could stand up especially black.
 
wha are your thoughts on this hood?
 

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302_, People have been wrapping cars in vinyl for decades. It's nothing new. Advertising vans, metro buses- etc. They last years in sunlight. Hell, they used to trim houses in vinyl. Black, blue, purpose or yellow- Doesn't matter the color, vinyl wrap is durable.
 
i was actually thinking of wrapping mine carbon fiber its $90 here to do it but i saw this hood for $100 but i dont know i never seen this type on a 2g
 
As someone who used plastic paint, i can tell you its a huge waste of time ALOT of time!! removing that crap is torture, and no matter how you remove it "you will eventually" it will drive you crazy. Just skip the life lesson and find other means to accomplish you goal.


As a reference, i had to strip my car to bare metal in some areas just to remove the "cancer" i call plastic paint!!
 
I personally wouldn't paint the stock hood unless it's repainting the whole car the color of the car I did think of plasti dipping my old hood. Then I save my pennies and bought a nice Vis CF Hood on my taxes never looked back and saved the money's on the cans for the hood for sparco SS Hood pins.
 

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Agreed on the wrap, plastidip will peal off fine only if you get it on heavy enough, although if you use the glossifier it will make the pealing much much harder, it will come off in little pieces instead of one big one. That's all if your planning on ever taking it back off. I can speak from experience that even big enough bugs will damage the dip and once theres a small area wind and water will keep making it bigger and bigger over time.
 
I've had some friends complain their plastidip would show scratches after washing their cars, even carefully. Perhaps their painting was not done well
 
In my experience plasti dip is over rated... It doesnt last very long, and it looks like shit if dust gets on it, it's not super easy to wash either. It's just not a good perminant way to go about paint, if you plan to reapply all the time then go for it. But it should be used on things that dont see much physical use/wear

Also yeah it will only peel if it's on heavy, if it's over sprayed you have to use scotch bright pad or a sponge or something that will then ruin your windows and clear coat.
 
true it will only peel if applied heavily enough, to thin and it becomes a pain to remove,
Granted the dip is on the wheels/ bumpers of the tow rig and not the dsm but have held up to ne winter for 2 years this years in tx, numerous times off road submerged in mud,rocks, high speed gravel and highway travel, high pressure car washes. and have yet to have either rims or bumper to get a nick in the dip. i did use about 1-2 cans per wheel and about 3 on the bumper to have it be heavily applied.
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the wrap would be easier to take off and more uniform if you get spots or runs in the dip.
 
Yeah on rims I would use it. Ive seen some brand new expensive sports cars that choose to do their whole cars though.
 
yeah the bumpers and side vents are also diped for over 3 years no peeling or nicks yet in it.
 
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