Shavin Indeted letters on back bumper

NewbStang · Feb 2, 2004

yea I did....I told you guys it was after a crash right...turned out they glued the left fend side...we had to stretch the car cuz it stood crooked and hood was a little off..and weld it up..some minor stuff was messed too but we fixed everything..all thats left to fix is the CD changer eheh...anyhoo if you remember the thread you know its a GT...Everyone thinks it is a Cobra and I know I will get crap at the track...but hey now that it is fixed it cost me 12,300 and it only has 3000 miles on it

PoXiC · Feb 3, 2004

<--- interested in cost for that mod. I have a GT, planning on adding an 03 Cobra rear bumper, but dont want the words there. Cost anyone?

jadesville · Feb 3, 2004

PoXiC said:
<--- interested in cost for that mod. I have a GT, planning on adding an 03 Cobra rear bumper, but dont want the words there. Cost anyone?

im guessing ~$400 if not a bit higher

xenon · Feb 3, 2004

NewbStang said:
yea I did....I told you guys it was after a crash right...turned out they glued the left fend side...we had to stretch the car cuz it stood crooked and hood was a little off..and weld it up..some minor stuff was messed too but we fixed everything..all thats left to fix is the CD changer eheh...anyhoo if you remember the thread you know its a GT...Everyone thinks it is a Cobra and I know I will get crap at the track...but hey now that it is fixed it cost me 12,300 and it only has 3000 miles on it

Well you badged your car with the SVT emblem so why not leave the Cobra bumper alone. I could understand shaving if you kept the GT emblem.

PoXiC · Feb 3, 2004

jadesville said:
im guessing ~$400 if not a bit higher

not bad.

jadesville · Feb 3, 2004

PoXiC said:
not bad.

dont know, thats how much it would cost here to get your paint stripped, filled, preped, repainted, matched, wet sanded and all

PoXiC · Feb 3, 2004

jadesville said:
dont know, thats how much it would cost here to get your paint stripped, filled, preped, repainted, matched, wet sanded and all

Oh that includes paint too!? Not bad at all!

jadesville · Feb 3, 2004

PoXiC said:
Oh that includes paint too!? Not bad at all!

yeah, so im going to guess its around ~400-450 for it, which isnt really bad all, but i know thats the proper way to do it

NasaGT · Feb 3, 2004

yeah, jadesvilles numbers are about right.

Hoppy · Feb 3, 2004

When I had my bumper filled the body shop roughed up the cbra letters with a grinder and put some mesh tape in there too to help the filler material bond better.

The filler material is a binary polyurethane compund (it is slightly stiffer than the stock bumper material) . There were two tubes (one was the filler material and the other a catalyst material) whose contents was dispensed (from what could be described as a caulk type gun) out of one nozzle onto the prepared letters. The mixture was smoothed onto the bumper with a piece of plastice the size of a credit card. The filler quicky dryed. This process was repeated untill all letters were filled.

After the compound was completely dry, it was taken down with a grinder, then sanded smooth. It was next cleaned, and prepped for paint with primer and shot with the base color and clear coat.

Don't use bondo on this project. I don't know what tradename the binary polyurethane material went by. If your bodyshop doesn't use it and wants instead to bondo....move on.

My bumper work cost $500.

Hop

Dallasgt01 · Feb 3, 2004

i am in the process of a Y2K R concersion and i shaved all the emblems of the car both Gt the FORD and the STICK ON GT emblem on the trunk lid... The next thing was to do the Mustang and also the antenna...i was thinking of how to do that i thought of fiberglass... For the side holes i used bondo with some metel shavings in it so that when they take a mag. around my car to she what all has been wreck there is no part..I would like the name of that expoxy they used and was the mesh just like the mesh screen that i use with fiber glass???

PoXiC · Feb 3, 2004

Hoppy said:
When I had my bumper filled the body shop roughed up the cbra letters with a grinder and put some mesh tape in there too to help the filler material bond better.

The filler material is a binary polyurethane compund (it is slightly stiffer than the stock bumper material) . There were two tubes (one was the filler material and the other a catalyst material) whose contents was dispensed (from what could be described as a caulk type gun) out of one nozzle onto the prepared letters. The mixture was smoothed onto the bumper with a piece of plastice the size of a credit card. The filler quicky dryed. This process was repeated untill all letters were filled.

After the compound was completely dry, it was taken down with a grinder, then sanded smooth. It was next cleaned, and prepped for paint with primer and shot with the base color and clear coat.

Don't use bondo on this project. I don't know what tradename the binary polyurethane material went by. If your bodyshop doesn't use it and wants instead to bondo....move on.

My bumper work cost $500.

Hop

YOU RULE MAN! Great information... and a sweet car!

JonJon · Feb 3, 2004

Expensive for sure...

NewbStang · Feb 3, 2004

yea i was hoping around $300..dont know if it is worth 500

oh yea and I didnt badge it SVT I bought it like that...I was thinkin of changin the cobra emblems to GT and shavin the Cobra letters but now I am starting to think it is not worth 500 bux

mike2858 · Feb 3, 2004

what about the doorhandles- would it be the same process with the same stuff or what?

nickthegenius · Feb 3, 2004

mike2858 said:
what about the doorhandles- would it be the same process with the same stuff or what?

That would be much more involved. To be honest, I can't remember if we have plastic or metal doorskins and I'm at work so I can't go check.

If the are metal, it will involve welding, smoothing with filler, priming and paint. If it is plastic, I'm not exactly sure how they shave door handles on a plastic doorskin. I've seen posts of '93-'02 F-bodies with shaved handles back when I had my '99 and '01 Formulas, but I can't remember what the process was for the plastic skins.

tarch · Feb 3, 2004

Hoppy said:
When I had my bumper filled the body shop roughed up the cbra letters with a grinder and put some mesh tape in there too to help the filler material bond better.

The filler material is a binary polyurethane compund (it is slightly stiffer than the stock bumper material) . There were two tubes (one was the filler material and the other a catalyst material) whose contents was dispensed (from what could be described as a caulk type gun) out of one nozzle onto the prepared letters. The mixture was smoothed onto the bumper with a piece of plastice the size of a credit card. The filler quicky dryed. This process was repeated untill all letters were filled.

After the compound was completely dry, it was taken down with a grinder, then sanded smooth. It was next cleaned, and prepped for paint with primer and shot with the base color and clear coat.

Don't use bondo on this project. I don't know what tradename the binary polyurethane material went by. If your bodyshop doesn't use it and wants instead to bondo....move on.

My bumper work cost $500.

Hop

even though it looks awesome, i don't think that look is justifying the 500 spent...

jadesville · Feb 3, 2004

tarch said:
even though it looks awesome, i don't think that look is justifying the 500 spent...

well, you could just put duct tape over it

NewbStang · Feb 3, 2004

heh...*** it I rather be called a ricer than shell out 500 I can spend on gears or exhaust

jadesville · Feb 3, 2004

NewbStang said:
heh...*** it I rather be called a ricer than shell out 500 I can spend on gears or exhaust

be called a ricer?

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