Need help re: Racing Stripes

it depends on your location. some areas you are able to find someone to paint them on for cheap. i know someone who wouldnt paint it for $2000. i would for about $1000. there are some vinyl places that would charge over $1000 for the stripes. the vinyl is rated as a 5 year product. it depends on how your car is used/stored also. if you keep it in the garage most of the time, you could probably get more life out of the vinyl. i personally prefer the painted stripes, but you have to find a good person to do them it is easier to mess them up (crooked lines, bleed through on the tape edges, etc). vinyl will give you a good cut on all the edges, because they are computer cut. paint has more human error. it is also best to remove many parts from your car, so the paint comes out good. if you want stripes on the bumpers, you need to remove them. how about the spoiler? remove that too, as well as the hood squirters, decklid badge, ets. theres alot more labor in the paint and most people would just mask around most of these items, because they are too lazy to remove them. the choice is yours, but i think painted on is better. you can also clear over them and sand out the tape line, so it is smooth. if you clear over vinyl stripes, you risk damaging the vinyl when you are scuffing them, and have a higher chance of the paint peeling over the vinyl stripes.

sorry this is a long post, but these are a few things to consider when doing stripes.