hamburglar490

Apologies for the dirt. But behold, plasti dip

Acura_Swag

tls looking good bro. I alwys loved that blue. no plans on lowering on some nice shoes ?

Skirmich

Needs a Drop...

Ah its plasti-dipped!

.5 Pinoy

man I really dig everything you've done with it so far, keep up the good work. I have an 03 NBP Type S and Im the original owner and its in much need of some love, curious as to where you got the hood supports?... seen a few on ebay but wasnt sure of the quality of them.

hamburglar490

Thanks man, and here's the exact ones I bought, they've worked great since I got them
And sorry to disappoint you guys but I'm just not a fan of lowering lol

hamburglar490

Finally got around to wrapping the inside of the shifter with carbon fiber. Somebody did it on the forum and I liked the way it looked. Didn't come out too bad for my first ever attempt with vinyl.

hamburglar490

Trunk light was pretty dim so I went ahead and put a strip of LEDs in. Came out better than expected.


Comparison with a stock bulb in a '04 TL

the-G-ride

Wow those LED's look amazing in the trunk. I was thinking about doing that myself along with putting LED strips under the dashboard and under the back of the front seats. Where did you get the strip from?

How is your plasti-dip holding up? I'm still debating on whether to plasti-dip or but carbon fiber vinyl over the pillars.

hamburglar490

Thanks! I used this LED strip ( ). Pretty good price and seems to be good quality, sure is bright lol. Just cut it to length then tap into the trunk light power.

Also, I did the under the dashboard lighting you're talking about with really dim amber lighting, looks great. Advice, do NOT make it very bright. I used the same strip I linked to above but in amber (I believe they call it yellow) and cut it so i had 6 LEDSs in each footwell. Looked good but at night it was really distracting. Cut off half so I had 3 on each side and it's much nicer, just like a mood light that you only see when it's night as opposed to lighting up the whole cabin lol.

As for the plasti-dip, it's holding up fine, but I'm not really liking the matte black appearance of the B-Pillars so I just ordered some 3M gloss black vinyl. So IMO opinion, go with the vinyl.

the-G-ride

Thanks. That's a really good price on the LEDs. I thought it was going to be way more expensive. The LED strips I see in parts stores are about triple that price for half that length. Seeing as how I have amazon prime, this just might become my weekend project. I was going to use two LED strips, one that is connected to the light on the door so that when you open the door, the bright white LEDs come on to light up the footwell area and one strip as ambient lighting. I don't know if to do blue or amber though for the ambient lighting.

I'll most likely wait until spring time to do the pillars, its getting cold now . I'm gunna go with the vinyl though and propably carbon fiber. Dunno if it'll look cheesy or not, but I want to wrap the pillars, door handles and grille all in vinyl.

nats007

Soooo clean! Looks flawless im my honest opinion. This shot is why I'm going to plastidip the pillars on the 2G

hamburglar490

Oh man I know at part stores it's like $20 for 3 feet . And that's actually a pretty cool idea about wiring one strip up to the door light, might have to try that when I get some time lol. Let me know how that goes. It's getting cold here too but I'm gonna try and get my gloss black vinyl on my pillars before it gets too bad, can't stand that matte black

hamburglar490

Just put the vinyl on my b-pillars. No idea what I was thinking with the plasti-dip. This is definitely the way to go.


One Done.

After I finished

Acira

iTrader: (1)

Looks good man.Did you have to wrap the front and back,or just the face?

hamburglar490

Thanks man. I could never figure out how to remove the b-pillars so I just did the face. I think that'll be fine though, doesn't feel like the vinyl is going anywhere lol

dreem1er

iTrader: (2)

Over time the vinyl will fade. And can get bubbles. Removing the pillars isn't hard.

Remover the rubber seal from the door. And I think its was 4 screws/bolts 2 top and 2 bottom. there is a diy for it somewhere.

If it gives you issues later on its better to remove them and either wrap them completely. Hydro dip them or good old fashioned paint

hamburglar490

Yeah I saw that DIY but without the pictures I just couldn't figure it out lol. And even if they last 2 years it was pretty quick and easy to do so I'm still pretty happy with it
But thanks for the tip, maybe when these fade I'll try paint

guitarplayer16

iTrader: (8)

Nice progress!

Vinyl > Plasti-dip

hamburglar490

Thanks man, and yup totally agree. It not only looks better but it feels SO much better than plasti-dip

hamburglar490

Installing the Outlaw Engineering ThermoBlock spacers...

Gabru678

iTrader: (1)

You did my Carbon fiber shift gate mod!

Im so happy you liked it and did it!

This is the first time someone did something I did that I haven't seen here before!

What do I win? lol im really happy right now!

HairyMonkey019

iTrader: (7)

How do you even take that shit off???

I wanna vinyl wrap mine, but not cf

hamburglar490

Hahah yeah I saw yours a while ago and figured I'd try it. Came out better than I thought.


And today I clayed and compounded the hood. The rest of the car will be done eventually lol. The claying really makes a world of difference.

Acira

iTrader: (1)

That shits clean man. I need to do mine also,my paint is starting to look dull.

hamburglar490

Finally got warm enough to wash my car and polish it




And this is an updated image of the interior. Hated the smokey black woodgrain that was on the type-s, so I got the regular instead. Also didn't like the type-s speedo so I got the base version of that.

M224armstrong

VERY CLEANNNNNN!!!! Makes me wanna go polish mine. The weather been so crappy here that I've just been driving her and not even washing it. Can't wait for all this snow to be over. Smh

Gabru678

iTrader: (1)

Dude awesome!
That first shot of the results of the clay looks great!

And you liked the base cluster? You shoulda asked me to trade lol.

And HairyMonkey its just really takes a bit of heat. Think of it as a deluxe textured heavy duty sticker. I have removed some of mine and have had literally no reside left over.

hamburglar490

Thanks! The claying is incredible, the paint seriously feels like a brand new car at a dealership

hamburglar490

Finally decided to tackle the ugliness that is my roof. Looks pretty good!

Nicks2001tl

If you keep it up hopefully it will not come back. A lot of people don`t know what claying and then applying a couple of coats of wax does the paint job of their car. Not only will it get out the imperfections but leave you with a great finish.


Shh, don`t tell anyone.

Gabru678

iTrader: (1)

I know I have seen this.....on gone wild?
nahhh...

hamburglar490

That's the plan Spent roughly 12 hours detailing it the past 2 days and it's definitely worth it. Dreading having to take it outside in the snow though...

And I'll post a new picture later today hopefully if I can finish what I'm trying to do with the door panel

hamburglar490

Making some slow progress on this. Gonna wrap all the woodgrain trim inside the car with a brushed aluminum vinyl. Absolutely love the way this door turned out. Baby steps....



The final product

Blowgarian

Looking good!

Nicks2001tl

The best way to do the pillars is to mask them off with tons off newspapers and paint them with a primer/paint black gloss paint. Scuff up the pillars with a 200-300 grit sandpaper before hand.


Otherwise your interior and exterior looks good.

Powashiftin

Was this compounding done by hand or machine?

hamburglar490

Machine. The DA polisher from harbor freight. Pretty good deal

KatabaticSaint

How does one reverse polarize the LED's for the clock and AC and such?

mugenspire

iTrader: (4)

nice ride yo! love the color. way to keep it clean

MarcDavidoff

Nice job! Your car looks better than new. Always loved that color. Don't see hardly any around now.