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I had thought about relocating the exhaust hole to the right like they did in this photo, but I rather coverthe original side and leave the muffler hidden from sight. Instead of having the tip straight back ill have it curve down so it wont burn the bumper.
Yes, its possible that it might be for a EF. Did you ever had a chance to installed this muffler?
Thank you for the kind words. I started doing the covers as a hobby and some of my friends liked the result. Started to sale a few and the I went into the forums to advertise them. My prices depend on what the costumer wants. For a regular paint and clear I charge $100 plus your cover or you can bring me your cover if you like. If its a color that I don’t have it will be $40 extra. If you want letters to be shave (gone), cam gears cut out (moon cut, full cut) it will be more.
I still have my old lip. I will be cleaning it and giving it another coat of paint to post it up for sale.
A small update. Will be picking up these mirrors today after work. F1 style with some nice blue tint LED to match with the jasper green.lol Im just messing, the LED will be remove and I will cover up the hole. Will probably modified the base of the mirror to have a smooth flat surface instead of the double step.
As soon as I got to my parents house I started to sand them and get rid of the LED light.
Let the filler dry and drove home to finish them
First coat of primer.
I didn’t like the double step base plate that came with these mirror so I started to modified. The finish product will only have one solid base plate.
You can see the mirror on the right side is hoe it originally came, the one on the left is the modified. I still need to lower it more and then fiberglass/body filler the two bases to make it a one piece.
lol. Its not that hard to learn Colin. It takes practice and a lot of time to get good at it. I learn it when I was a little kid, my father taught me everything I know about cars. Instead of playing outside with the rest of the kids, for the most time I was working with him on cars (not because I wanted) lol. Now I thank him because I learned a lot of things that are now helpful to modified my car. The rest I learned it on my own by trial and error :).
I don’t doubt I have the ability, the time to get in the practice is my problem If you haven’t noticed I LOVE projects, any sort of project. Like you my dad was really handy and always had his own car, home, or motorcycle projects. He’s also a jeweler by trade so obviously that’s another hands on type thing he does and I spent years doing that with him when I was young.
Funny, I’ve always liked the color matched bases for an OEM mirror. But for aftermarket (Spoon, EC Works, or the race style ones you have) I like black base plates.
Not sure if you’ve ever used any Eastwood spray paint products but I’m becoming a HUGE fan of their “Underhood Black”. They make a matte and a flat version. I use the matte version a lot, its great for tons of things, especially in the engine bay. Possibly a little too flat for the base plates though. The awesome thing about it is that it nearly perfectly matches the matte black powdercoating that my powder coater uses.
rollinmyda - lol I did it because I didn’t wanted the whole car to be jasper. At first, my intentions wer to paint match the lip and haveth black grill. After days of picturing and seeing other cars I didn’t like that idea. To me, it was going to look like a MACCO paint job in which everything got sprayed because nothing was taking off. So I got the idea of the mirrors from the spoon mirrors.
Colin - The color match bases look nice on the stock mirrors and that’s the way all db2 came with. I wanted a little different touch and since my car isn’t a real DB2, I didn’t wanted a replica.lol
I use duplicolor TP70 trim paint. That thing looks awesome in my opinion. Not too glossy nor too flat. I took all my window plastic moldings off and retored them with the duplicolor trim paint. I had to prep them before paint since they had some scuffs and sun cracks. So far they haven’t been re-spray and the paint is still holding great.
That’s good to know about that trim paint. I think I have used it before but wasn’t aware it held up that well. when you said you did prep, does that mean you filled all the little imperfections? Eventually I’d like to paint my car but about half of the replacement moldings/trim that I’d need are no longer available from the dealer so unfortunately I’d need to reuse a lot of the old ones. I hadn’t thought about spray painting them, especially since some of them are quite glossy from the factory.