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05-18-2011, 05:51 PM
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JZ
Drives: 2011 Synergy Green Camaro Join Date: May 2011
Location: Arizona
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Tail light black chrome bezels!
Well took me 2 days of work(drying time takes awhile), but I made my tail light bezels look like black chrome! It looks amazing, at least I think so ^.^
I can do a write-up if anyone wants to tackle this. It's pretty easy, just the outside ones were alittle tough to get to one of the tabs. No broken pieces tho thanks to my feeler gauges ^.~ BTW you can make it light or dark, depending on the coats you apply! -- next task, tackling the camaro lettering!
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05-18-2011, 06:02 PM
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Drives: ...and they're both wrong Join Date: Aug 2009
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What process did you use?
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05-18-2011, 06:29 PM
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JZ
Drives: 2011 Synergy Green Camaro Join Date: May 2011
Location: Arizona
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After cleaning with Simple Green, I used
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Hi/low 8k HID kit, Injen WB long tube, Pfadt stage 2, Rx black ice-olator, Rx catch can (color matched =D). |
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05-18-2011, 06:32 PM
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Drives: 2011 RJT 2LT/RS Join Date: Apr 2011
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Looks awesome
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05-18-2011, 06:36 PM
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Drives: 2012 Chevy Silverado ZL1 Join Date: Apr 2011
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Looks good! I think I'm gonna give this a try on some smaller pieces I wanna do!
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05-18-2011, 06:40 PM
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Drives: 2015 1SS/RS M6 Join Date: Oct 2010
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looks phenomenal. Nice work!
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05-18-2011, 06:41 PM
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Wow! I've seen that stuff before... wasn't sure how it would look. Great job.
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05-18-2011, 07:06 PM
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JZ
Drives: 2011 Synergy Green Camaro Join Date: May 2011
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Thanks everyone ^.^ hoping to get bowties/camaro lettering on fenders(which is going to take a lot of work), some interior pieces done as well. It just looks so good
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*2011 SGM Camaro*
Hi/low 8k HID kit, Injen WB long tube, Pfadt stage 2, Rx black ice-olator, Rx catch can (color matched =D). |
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05-18-2011, 07:14 PM
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Very nice work.
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05-18-2011, 08:26 PM
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Drives: 2011 Black 2SS Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: South Carolina
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Man, I tried the exact same thing this weekend. End result was I ended up finishing it off with two coats of black paint to cover up my busted black chrome attempt. You definitely did a better job than I did. For those interested Advanced Auto Parts had/has these on sale for $19 a box (about half of what you can find it for online). I'm curious what you did differently.
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05-18-2011, 08:53 PM
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JZ
Drives: 2011 Synergy Green Camaro Join Date: May 2011
Location: Arizona
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Ya i got mine at pep boys for 16.99 i believe. I didn't feel like paying 160 bucks for the same thing on ebay, when i could do it myself, and use paint stripper to get it off if i happen to mess up. lol.
I'll try and do a write-up today or tomorrow. Mines not perfect tho =( if you stare at it, on the bigger bottom section of 2 of them, you can see where the shadow coat didn't set long enough from the "wet" application and it kinda ran when i sprayed the clear finish coat on. It's not bad, but I like perfection, lol. I still love the outcome tho! ^.^
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Hi/low 8k HID kit, Injen WB long tube, Pfadt stage 2, Rx black ice-olator, Rx catch can (color matched =D). |
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05-18-2011, 10:38 PM
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Drives: 2011 3.6L V6 6 speed synergy green Join Date: May 2011
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Looks awesome. Mine is synergy green and I think the chrome bezels look bad. I just changed the front fender emblems to the 1968 emblems and it looks sweet
 for some reason your synergy green looks much darker than mine. Perhaps a different camera?
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05-18-2011, 10:42 PM
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JZ
Drives: 2011 Synergy Green Camaro Join Date: May 2011
Location: Arizona
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I'm using my Droid-X 8MP, no flash. It's been overcast with a little sun peaking through today. Finally rained around 6, lol.
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05-18-2011, 11:16 PM
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i tried the exact same thing. lets just say i covered it with plastidip.
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