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PHENOMenalVinyl
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Rob.Vegan wrote:I do want the fenders, I like the old design better but the new ones look good too. I think I'm going to hold out on them though, I think I'm just going to have my hood fixed a little and then painted. We'll see what happens.

Wet Works Garage (got a flyer on my car at the Stillen show) seems like they do some good work and I wanted to take my car to them, but they WILL NOT answer my call. I've called Wednesday, Friday, and today. Haven't left a message but thought they'd pick up one of my many calls (all at different times).

haha leave a message they never pick up at places


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Damn dood... Yea I remeber my VIS hood shaking like a bit** until I got my hood pins. Def. A must have!

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i had to repair my cf hood wen i got it. lots of wet sanding the surface scratches and sand down the spider cracks a couple layers, then retouch w/ lots of clearcoat. they can be such a pain. reinforce the inside for bends w/ sum fiberglass resin (one thick coat should do it) and respray another clear coat, and ur good to go!! as far as the gouges, do what i did!!!!!!!! bondo, fill, paint a design!!

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Damn Dan, that s*** looks gangster!

Sorry to hear about your hood Rob. No beuno :(

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Rob.Vegan
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I actually was going to have my hood fixed up as much as possible and repaint. Me and a friend are going to see if we can tackle it and if not just have it done when I take my car into the shop for the rest of the work.

I was thinking about having the roof painted flat black (if they are actually repainting it), and have the hood painted the same color leaving the carbon on the vents open. I'm also having parts of my fascia painted flat black soon so it shouldn't look too awkward but I'm still not sure.

If any of you have any ideas on how to paint my car (roof,hood, bumper) let me know so I can ponder it before the car goes in (before end of this week). The rims I decided on will be black and dark blue, having some blue accents on my fascia as well but it's gonna be hard to integrate that with the rest of the car

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Rob.Vegan
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What do you guys think about two toning my car like this. It would be the lower fascia, grill, hood (leaving louvers carbon) and roof.

Also to help tie it together, when I get rims I'd have the lip painted to match as well. Never mind the mirrors, I did it just to see but I don't like it.

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that looks sick rob


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