I finally decided to do something with my beak. Looking forward to find out how it turns out.
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I should get it back in a day or two. So I will be driving my car without the nose/beak. Finally pulled the trigger on it. I did a lot of thinking how I want it painted. Hope it will turn out the way I want or at least pictured. New beak picture will be updated soon.

 

hey - at least you are getting a better airflow to your car.

 

Thought of putting a little table fan and ziptie it. Thought about the fan mounting bracket all night. Will post a pic after mounting the fan

 

What are you doing to it?

 

 

OK, you've got my attention.......

 

Hey SB, I was only kidding!!!
the status of my beak is coming along.
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base coat
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Clear coat

 

Can't wait to see the finished grille back on the car.

 

It should be good to go by eod. It should come out clean.

 

Finished product.
any comments are welcome!
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Nice.

 

Thanks. Next to no orange peel, but all factory paint does. Oh well! Hopefully, it won't be a big deal. Acura/Honda barely put layers of paint on their vehicles. I really don't feel like coat it with couple of clear coats then wet sand the whole car. Paint correction?!?

 

The final shot of the beak on the car
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All the difference in the world.

 

I hope you don't mind me posting this but what are your thoughts on adding this piece to your already great looking grille ?

 

Great! I appreciate the offer. But I like the subtle stock look. CF is nice but not what I am going for. Cheers!

 

Looks great!!

 

Looks nice... good job

 

Hey that looks familiar...

 

Great minds think alike?!?

 

yup yup... you'll be the only one here pretty soon though... with the new mods on the front end it isn't matching anymore... so we're gonna have to paint the center as well so it matches with the new look... I loved it with just the center silver till I put the 2012 headlights on and lost the silver in them... now with them blacked out the center looks out of place =-(...

 

I don't mind the clear lenses. To be honest, I like the way my beak looks now. No intention of putting 2012 headlights. I guess I will be the "only one" here, which makes me unique

 

Yeah it looks good... we just started down the road to blacking a few things out and now it's went to "okay anything silver on the car has to go"... LoL... one day soon i'ma take a day off from my renovation on the house and wrap all the trim on the TL... to take it one step closer...

 

Welcome to project "batmobile"

 

Well done!

 

Looks good!

 

Thank you all. I like the beak now as if it was meant to be from the get go.

 

I agree, Acura should of had the bezel of the grille paint matched. Looks good though, I wanna see a full body shoot lol.

 

that is a good look

 

So minty!!! Kudos for not being like everyone else and blacking out the entire front. I agree. It's a little much. Takes away from the luxuriousness. Just my opinion.

We need a full shot now!

 

We need a full shot now!
I will post one soon. I am not a fan of painting the whole beak

 

This is exactly what I envisioned for my car as well, then researching tonight, I find this! haha. Looks great. Not sure if you painted it yourself. My biggest concern would be color match. Last time I had something painted, I had to leave the whole car with them to get the damn thing to match.

 

What was the cost to get this painted?

Post some pictures that shows the whole car

 

It was done by a bodyshop. I had to buy a pint of paint which came with the activator and the hardener. My new project for the beak will be done this Thursday. I will post pictures here on this thread for the final touch of the beak.

 

I'm assuming you got the paint from the dealership?

 

No from a paint place. Where bodyshops or the dealers get their paint. It cost me about $75 for the pint.

 

Cool. My biggest concern is paint match. Seems like there can be a few different shades of one paint code.

 

Its written on your driver side door panel plus after they mix the paint they should go to your car and match/look at it closely.

 

Awesome. Thanks for all of that information/dealing with all of my questions! haha

 

No problem. That's why you join the forum. Learn and share!! More info for my beak will be updated on Thursday. Looking forward to my final touch to finish the project "beak".