Somebody know how to do that???
I ask the guy at the body shop and he never did that...he think its gonna be hard....maybe its simple! Let me know how....
Thanks very much 4 the help!
depends. are you working with a metal or fiberglass hood? i've heard of a lot of people welding metal eyelids to the hood. or you could make fiberglass ones if you know how to work with fiberglass. it doesn't seem like an incredibly hard process, but i have a cavalier, what do i know? lol
-john
we def. need the eyelids how to, to be a freakin sticky!
cannon fodder wrote:http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=7&i=262763&t=248927&start=50
Hey thanks for savin me the trouble!!!
how we did mine we took one piece of sheet metal then welded a brake like to the edge making it round then welded another piece on the bottom
Hi there..
I just need some help here. I bought the attachable evil eyes for the sunfire hood from ebay which says it's ready for paint, meaning its all primered and all. Is there any procedures I should follow on painting it? My car is black so is there any particular brand of paint i should use? how many coats of paint and clear coat?
TIA
you have a couple choices.
#1: take it to a body shop and let them paint it cause you have no clue.
#2: buy a paint gun and compressor, ppg paint (or whatever brand you really want), finish prepping the pieces (sand smooth), give it a few layers of color, wet sand the color to reduce orange peel, give it a few coats of clear, wet sand again, buff, install. that's the short explanation, in reality it's not quite that simple, but you get the idea.
Jeff G wrote:Hi there..
I just need some help here. I bought the attachable evil eyes for the sunfire hood from ebay which says it's ready for paint, meaning its all primered and all. Is there any procedures I should follow on painting it? My car is black so is there any particular brand of paint i should use? how many coats of paint and clear coat?
TIA
honestly id throw them away and get them done the right way. those attachable ones look like crap imo. if you do keep them, do not paint them yourself
or you could buy from a reputable company.
but anyways, maybe as im molding the pass. side of my hood ill do a how-to.
hmmm, maybe ill do that tonight
^^^thats a very nice write-up. great pics!
StrippedCav98 (Now Quotable) wrote:Jeff G wrote:Hi there..
I just need some help here. I bought the attachable evil eyes for the sunfire hood from ebay which says it's ready for paint, meaning its all primered and all. Is there any procedures I should follow on painting it? My car is black so is there any particular brand of paint i should use? how many coats of paint and clear coat?
TIA
honestly id throw them away and get them done the right way. those attachable ones look like crap imo. if you do keep them, do not paint them yourself
Attachable FTL
John Piparo: I have an erection!! You guys are turning me on!
or someone could come buy my stock sunfire hood that has the eyelids done already just needs paint
that's all i can afford at the moment... I'll live with the $15 eyes for the mean time just to see how it looks like til I can afford a cf hood with evil eyes. and hey, they're detachable so if it looks like crap, its off the car right away.
love the write up, quick Q though, is the cardboard template still in there, so the fiberglass doesnt sag when you first apply it?
^^not sure how he did it, but i back my projects similar to this with cardboard, lay down the resin until its 90-95% hard, then pull it out. you usually end up leaving a thin layer, but you'd be covering it from the back with glass also, so it dosent matter much
Jeff G wrote:that's all i can afford at the moment... I'll live with the $15 eyes for the mean time just to see how it looks like til I can afford a cf hood with evil eyes. and hey, they're detachable so if it looks like crap, its off the car right away.
They're going to look like crap. Just refer to my photo.
John Piparo: I have an erection!! You guys are turning me on!
*headdesk*
John Piparo: I have an erection!! You guys are turning me on!
Very easy to do if your doing it with steel, I did mine start to finish in about 5 hours into primer and then sanded and painted the hood enxt day...
ShowFire
Nick Lafave wrote:Very easy to do if your doing it with steel, I did mine start to finish in about 5 hours into primer and then sanded and painted the hood enxt day...
when you say with steel, do you mean that the hood was OEM, and you glassed the eyelids on, or the eyelids were also steel? Just curious because i'm ready to do this to my OEM hood.
