Paint needed anyone?

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:14

I need to look at it haha

Shine's stuff is almost dead on everytime, in terms of making the rears more bubbled, that requires quite a bit of work to do it correctly. I will say that with rolled fenders you will probably always have a slight line, its almost impossible to get rid of it and keep it looking right with the car.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:14

Yeah, the body kit and diffuser fit great. Zico said when he fit the body kit on while I was deployed last year that it went right on, no modifications other than drilling mounting holes. I think the diffuser might have been off on one of the sides just SLIGHTLY and it makes it sit just a tad lower on one side than the other, but you can't really tell. And I probably could have fixed that just by drilling one of the holes a little wider.

Actually I don't have a line on any of the stock fenders. We pulled the rear fenders about two inches past stock, but it has the lip now and I think I'd rather have it more bubbled. There is a guy on 7club, his name is supastar bruce, and his fenders are flared how I would like mine but he won't tell anyone how it was done. His is the last one. I had more pics of it but I think my HD has been deleting pics behind my back.

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:14

Okay yeah, basically to get your fenders to do that there are a few different ways of doing it.

One is welding new metal in, another is taking the burnout rear flares and adding material to them and molding the fenders in smooth with a special resin and bonding system, the other is use a bondo that consists of crushed and ground metal flakes (it spreads similar to bondo, but its metal) I have used this material for deleting sunroofs in cars and never had one crack.

Can be done, IS a total bitch, and WILL take about a week or more to finish properly shaping.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:14

Well the way we did it was just stretch the metal as far as we could under the circumstances. However, to try to accomplish the same thing but the way I want, we'd have to cut the "ceiling" out of the wheel well along the fender, because that part meets the fender so we couldn't extend the roller any higher. I'm not sure if you get what I'm talking about. But you've had an FD before so I'm sure you've seen it yourself. But this is only if we could stretch the metal up there more too.

I've thought about using the Burnout flares in the back, but I don't like how they have the distinctive edge, I'd rather it was rounded off. So I figure I could still try those and just sand down the edge to make it more rounded.

I'd rather not mold anything in because of what I'd always heard about the body flexing and cracking the mold. But I guess if you use the metal flakes, maybe that won't happen. I'd like to try stretching the metal again if possible, but I'm still not sure about cutting the part out of the wheel well inside either. Decisions...

Either way, if it would only take a week to finish shaping, that still blows away the timeline for the shop where I had it LOL.

Sorry for hijacking your thread haha. We should probably take this to PM I guess.

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:14

No no its good, this lets everyone else see whats going on, thats the purpose of the thread.

the problem with trying to stretch the fenders more outward is that since you have already stretched them once, they will warp with you going at it again. If I were you, I would get a heater and set it inside the wheel well until EVERYTHING is way hot and see if you can get the actual inner fenders to stretch out more. If that doesn't help, I would suggest bringing it to me but looking at your fitment right now, I would say a touch more stretch before bubbling the fenders would be the way to go just incase later down the road you want to lower the car more or something like that.

bellalyssa · Postby **bellalyssa** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:14

Yes, they wanted to charge me 1200, but I think they also wanted to completely replace the front bumper. I talked to another friend of mine yesterday at the AutoX meet and he said that in order to fix the damage under the fog light you should just be able to heat it and pop the dent out and then sand everything down and repaint. Who knows. I'll let you know about being in Denver next weekend and we can set up a time to meet and get an actual price set.

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:14

Sounds good just let me know.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

Chance wrote:No no its good, this lets everyone else see whats going on, thats the purpose of the thread.

the problem with trying to stretch the fenders more outward is that since you have already stretched them once, they will warp with you going at it again. If I were you, I would get a heater and set it inside the wheel well until EVERYTHING is way hot and see if you can get the actual inner fenders to stretch out more. If that doesn't help, I would suggest bringing it to me but looking at your fitment right now, I would say a touch more stretch before bubbling the fenders would be the way to go just incase later down the road you want to lower the car more or something like that.

Yeah I might try another go at it. I'd rather not deal with it though haha. And as it turns out I may be buying a house and not really have the money or time to deal with it for a while anyway haha.

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

Good for you man, buying a house is always a big step forward. Congrats

as far as working on the car, just let me know when you are ready to work on it.

speedjunkie · Postby **speedjunkie** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

Cool, thanks!

deepSpeedMS3 · Postby **deepSpeedMS3** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

well when the time comes i'll look you up chance...thanks for all the info

Gmoney · Postby **Gmoney** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

so have not posted in awhile............I also have an off mazda ?.......Do you know anybody that could powder coat my motorcycle wheels?

Need tires, and would like to have it done all at the same time.......Thanks

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:14

Yes I can get powdercoating done as well, but you will need to have a color in mind pervious to drop off. I will also need to look at them as SOME wheels will have to be sand blasted prior to powder.

Chance · Postby **Chance** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:14

This is one of the more interesting paint jobs I have done which incorporated a brilliant yellow under blue scallops. Wish I had the old pictures of fresh paint pre-stickers but can't find them now.

Renesis Rx · Postby **Renesis Rx** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:14

Chance, Looking to get my Mazda Speed Wing and Mazda Speed Style sideskirts painted and installed on my RX-8. Color=Sunlight Silver. All are black and primed Duraflex. How much would I be looking at and how long would it take?

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