Painting the lower of my rear bumper??

ProKiller · May 6, 2009

thats way to much work. i'd just do it in vinyl. that stuff is cheap and you just cut it to fit.

ARdoller · May 6, 2009

if taking 2min to take some tape and mask off a little part of the bumper to prevent overspray, is too much work, then you must be real freakin lazy.

SRT Handz · May 6, 2009

take your time masking, thats the trick. Try to get the paint line right in the middle of dip in the bumper. thats how ford did it.

i spend about and hour masking (2/3 mess-ups) and put trashbags over the whole rear of the car.

not much work when it cam out as clean as it did on my car's ass lol

i guess it all depends on how good you want it to look

project94 · May 6, 2009

Man its all in the prep. 90% of a awsome paint job is in the prep

SRT Handz · May 6, 2009

project94 said:
Man its all in the prep. 90% of a awsome paint job is in the prep

QFT

ProKiller · May 6, 2009

ARdoller said:
if taking 2min to take some tape and mask off a little part of the bumper to prevent overspray, is too much work, then you must be real freakin lazy.

i'm actually really meticulous about body stuff so i would end up spending the time that SRT Handz did if i wanted to paint it.

GDTrumbo · May 6, 2009

^+1

GT

ARdoller · May 6, 2009

ProKiller said:
ARdoller said:

if taking 2min to take some tape and mask off a little part of the bumper to prevent overspray, is too much work, then you must be real freakin lazy.

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i'm actually really meticulous about body stuff so i would end up spending the time that SRT Handz did if i wanted to paint it.

I can understand that, i mean i take hours upon hours finishing out just one tail light, but something as simple as taking enough newspaper just to cover any overspray, which you dont need any more than 1 newspaper's width of paper lining the entire part of the bumper where youre painting, and taking a rattle can and just spraying over the existing paint, takes all of 10 minutes. ive done this on 3 cars now, and the first time i did it was roughly 3 years ago, and i never saw any flaking, and it look(ed/s) perfect on all the cars ive done it on. it looks like the factory painted it, and it took no prepwork. i did back into a stone wall at work that put a few small gouges in the bottom valance, but i just took a pinch of body filler, put it in, and even without masking it off, just resprayed it, and you would never know there was any marks there from the wall.

i guess its one thing to take your time, to take your time, but you can only take so long to spell your own name... i guess what im saying is, its one thing to take longer to make it look nicer, but if its going to turn out just the same doing it in 5min, whats the extra 6 hours going to do, other than just waste time?

boosted93 · May 6, 2009

I bet you ask any bodyshop and they would recommend wet sanding it or at lease scuffing it up..We all know that paint sticks better to a clean surface and a good way to do that is wet sanding it.. and why not take the extra time to make sure its perfect?

JDwhite98gt · May 6, 2009

+1000 to SRT handz I did it exactly the same way just scuff the valence and use the bumper paint he used its a perfect match. Oh and do a few light coats. The reason you want to cover up most of the rear is because in a spray can, the paint will spit out so you start spraying on the newspaper and sweep across the valence. Never just spray where you want to paint, it will splatter.

griffin7t1 · May 8, 2009

Alroight thanks guys, im probably gonna tackle this tomorrow if its nice out... New Englands weathers been caca. Showing 70 and rain tomorrow FML.

It should work out to be Nice out... Im gonna take the handz approach to it and take my time, I actually planned on masking it off (Mid groove). well see how it comes out i think im gonna repaint my gas tank/ gas tank straps also. ill have the car all masked off n shit in the rear anyway.

Ill be sure to have some before and after pics up asap.

joekd · May 8, 2009

griffin7t1 said:
Alroight thanks guys, im probably gonna tackle this tomorrow if its nice out... New Englands weathers been caca. Showing 70 and rain tomorrow FML.

C'mon man, don't go jinxing our NE weather, I plan to open my pool this weekend

Win · May 8, 2009

I'm gonna try to paint my side skirts and if they turn out good i am going to do my Bumpers. Who knows

duff daddy · May 8, 2009

ahhhhhhhh you need to go to the track on the 16th im racing that slow car known as venom351 then :evil:

griffin7t1 · May 9, 2009

Duff man im not gonna lie... your cars beastmode... that things great looking and im sure it moves.

Lookin forward to seein it at Kimballs this season yoo!

duff daddy · May 9, 2009

hahah thansk griff, it ran a 12.66 and 1.66 short time a few weeks ago at NED so im pumped...

griffin7t1 · May 10, 2009

OOOIIIIIIGHHHHT GUYS im headin outside right Meow to paint this facker.... wish me luck ill have hella pics peccce

griffin7t1 · May 10, 2009

Just finished it. it looks great holy crap. i snapped a few pics but im goin cruiszin later so ill be sure to get some good ones

This is all i used for the job... and i didnt even end up needing the blade.

scuff pad some tape and thats about all ya need