ugh chrome

I hate chrome,

so I laid down some mgm chrome begone (AKA Orcal 937 Vinyl ) damn near paint match, tomorrow ill finish the lower grill part

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Post

 

Pics when mounted please!

 

its dark here now, so will snap one in the morning. but its a damn near perfect match

I do have to probably re-do it since im so anal about things, but I did an inlay for the vertical sides, but then in my haste last night (it was past 1am est) I forgot to lay down knifeless tape to cut out where i did the inlays & just heated & stretched the main piece into those corners but there was so much tension that it lifted a little bit.. I then attempted to cut out that area to leave the inlay, but I went a bit too deep w/ my knife & cut through the inlay exposing the chrome a tinnnny bit

 

and here is my mess up (the red shows the inlay I did behind the circle chunk missing) & then the pink square shows where I cut the bridging in the vinyl but went a bit deeper & cut through the inlay (its behind the main piece) down to the chrome

 

No one else will know and that looks soo much better than chrome I wouldn't even stress. Good job!

 

lower grill time



also in case anyone else goes down this route, just keep in my there are ALOT of sharp edges both on the grill & the hood buldge from the molding process/excess flashing. With the chrome , this makes it a PITA to try to sand flat/smooth w/ just sandpaper (since chrome is basically metal, but just a thin layer)

I used my Dremel to get them all smooth /flat, then used some 220 to smooth further.

I should have the final pic up shortly ... grill is hanging/drying after a thorough wash w/ some dawn dish soap

 

and its done



took a bit longer then expected, but all 1 piece no inlays

have to see how much I have left as I want to wrap the bumper middle section as well

 

Dayumm, well done!

 

Looks good OP

 

Impressive job!