Shavin Indeted letters on back bumper

[NewbStang]

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]

<--- 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]

<--- 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]

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]

im guessing ~$400 if not a bit higher

not bad.

 

[jadesville]

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]

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]

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]

yeah, jadesvilles numbers are about right.

 

[Hoppy]

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]

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]

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]

Expensive for sure...

 

[NewbStang]

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]

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

 

[nickthegenius]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[jadesville]

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

be called a ricer?