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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Not my taste but looks very sharp and you've done a pretty good work there. Looks different...but to each there own.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    +1 Approve. Very Clean.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Not a big fan of the yellow but overall a job well done.

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    It's different.

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I love it, maybe not so much the yellow but looks hot. Nice job

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    I appreciate the time + effort you spent working on your car. Time spent in and around one's own car is time well spent.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    You know.. I know a place that does plastic chroming... I might see if I could maybe get that done to my cover..

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I like it... may even wanna do the fuse box cover and battery cover as well.. looks good.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I more than like it. Love the contrast.

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    i want mine red.. lol

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I like it. I like it a lot.

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I dunno about painting the battery cover and fuse box, maybe just accents. I'd look into something like a yellow hose joint to replace your blue one by your intake filter.

    Something like this:
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Quote Originally Posted by KenYork View Post
    I dunno about painting the battery cover and fuse box, maybe just accents. I'd look into something like a yellow hose joint to replace your blue one by your intake filter.

    Something like this:
    That's gonna take a lot of work.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    LOL... I thought it was about the end result.

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Can't say I like it. Too.... yellow.

    And it looks like you got the wrong shade of yellow if you were trying to match the other car. It looks like they used school-bus yellow (yes, that's a colour).
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    +1 I like very much!!!

    I was thinking of doing the mesh a color and the rest piano black.... Whats the quick and dirty how to? What Paint did you use? and did you sand it down?

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Well done.... funny I was thinking of doing the same thing lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by mleblond View Post
    +1 I like very much!!!

    I was thinking of doing the mesh a color and the rest piano black.... Whats the quick and dirty how to? What Paint did you use? and did you sand it down?

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    i did sand it down before and in between... i used caliper paint because it has a rubbery/durable feel to it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Unoriginalusername View Post
    i did sand it down before and in between... i used caliper paint because it has a rubbery/durable feel to it
    Do you know the grade? So you used the duplicolor caliper paint from CT...I guess your calipers are yellow I got the blue for mine...will do the mesh blue and piano black the rest.

    Also did you take the tape after it had dried? or while it was still fresh?

    Sorry for the questions but I was really thinking of doing this soon!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mleblond View Post
    Do you know the grade? So you used the duplicolor caliper paint from CT...I guess your calipers are yellow I got the blue for mine...will do the mesh blue and piano black the rest.

    Also did you take the tape after it had dried? or while it was still fresh?

    Sorry for the questions but I was really thinking of doing this soon!
    i just had some really fine sand paper that i used, i edged the tape with a knife and then removed the tape so i got a clean line

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    Well good job! I will try to do it soon!....do a little trip to CT this weekend...

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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    i like it, but it would look alot better with some other colour accents, like in that other pic you posted.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    Looks good, Yellow not sure of but its growing on me. Id for sure leave it at that. Id stay away from painting the fuse/battery box. That will be too much. But thats my taste and you do what floats your boat.

    Nice job, though very clean.
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    Default Re: Yah or Nah... my IC cover mod

    I really like it, well done. Gotta see it in person. Yellow is different.


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