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07-21-2004, 12:14 PM
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molding my bodykit?
How do i properly mold the bodykit on my civic. Ive noticed it looks a lot better when its molded. Do i just take bondo and do it that way or is there other ways?
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07-21-2004, 05:24 PM
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Yahoo Watashi wa kattaze!
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does anyone have a body kit here?
just asking |
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07-21-2004, 07:43 PM
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Location: northeastern connecticut
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a friend of mine just had his molded. It looked really sick and there is no noticible difference, the whole car looks like one piece. I'm assuming bondo (if done really good) could probably work however i'd suggest practicing on some shitty junkyard car first or something because if you fuck it up you're gonna have one hell of a mess
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07-21-2004, 07:57 PM
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Yahoo Watashi wa kattaze!
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eh I wouldnt think you really can screw it up since you can always remove it by sanding (forever if necessary).
Ive done drywall mud several times and I think thats a huge pain in the ass...and thats all flat...so I can only imagine how it'd be on a curved surface |
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07-21-2004, 08:00 PM
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here's some advice man, do not mold the kit, aside from it looking nice to begin with it's more of a pain then you want to deal with.
if it's your daily driver i strongly suggest against it, but if it's a show car thats another story my friend has his drift kit molded to his cavy, one peice, i admit it looked nice but the trouble that came along with it...wasnt worth it here's the problem with doing it, you will have to redo the "molding" job whenever you happen to hit a curb or just bottom out the seal will break and no matter how hard we tried there were always cracks. we molded it with fiberglass and bondo and we remolded it about 6 times before he ditched the cavy for a golf. it's just a warning of the pains to come if you do it. but if you do i suggest put a layer of fiberglass along the back of the kit then put a layer of bondo over that and on the front bondo it and be ready with a powersander and lots of sandpaper.
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07-22-2004, 02:08 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: no longer Cal or AZ now in Pa at least until Feb
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I'd have to agree with Darin^ unless its going to be show only it really wouldn't be worth it, another thing that I've thought of other then the points he brought up is that its going to also be a real pain if you should get into an accident to have to undo all that sh*t to remove the damaged parts and then have to redo all of it again to make it look right
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07-22-2004, 12:19 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: northeastern connecticut
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yeah another thing about that, my friend installed a aem short ram on his car before he had the body kit installed, and he didn't remove the airbox piece that was in the bumper, he figured the guy doing his bodywork would...
come to find out he left it and molded the bumper so now that air box piece is stuck in there, making it look stupid and adding dead weight.
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