James's SE

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:46 pm

Cheers man! slight update, paint is looking very ratty. So i just bourght 6 cans of plastidip. Im just going to give it a clean and paint over whats there. I dont know whats going to hapen but ill find out! ill post before and after pics when i do it.

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:47 pm

Cheers man! slight update, paint is looking very ratty. So i just bourght 6 cans of plastidip. Im just going to give it a clean and paint over whats there. I dont know whats going to hapen but ill find out! ill post before and after pics when i do it.

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 4:51 pm

AndrewJZX100 wrote:always hang out for updates on this thing, so much ghetto win.

should just paint the wheel spokes red ;)

That's what I thought, but I'm not going to stifle James' creativity/madness - this thread is like watching one of those movies where you have no idea what's going to happen next.

If you end up peeling back some of the plasti-dip to redo it, can you please get some shots of what it looks like?

eg. Does it come off in big strips or does it flex too much and end up coming off in small messy "bites".

Also interested to know what the paint looks like underneath. I know that Billy Bunter's red stripes left a pink stain on his white bonnet and that some red plasti-dipped rims get left with a pink tinge when removed so would like to know if your Velocity Red ends up with a blackish stain.

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 7:57 pm

Lokiel wrote:
AndrewJZX100 wrote:always hang out for updates on this thing, so much ghetto win.

should just paint the wheel spokes red ;)

That's what I thought, but I'm not going to stifle James' creativity/madness - this thread is like watching one of those movies where you have no idea what's going to happen next.

If you end up peeling back some of the plasti-dip to redo it, can you please get some shots of what it looks like?

eg. Does it come off in big strips or does it flex too much and end up coming off in small messy "bites".

Also interested to know what the paint looks like underneath. I know that Billy Bunter's red stripes left a pink stain on his white bonnet and that some red plasti-dipped rims get left with a pink tinge when removed so would like to know if your Velocity Red ends up with a blackish stain.

haha always make me laugh man xD
im really doing it so i can paint over my current job, just to experiment even more. and i have heard many bad stories about plastidip like u said but also that it was cleaned off as well, never perminent. lets see how it goes though!

AndrewJZX100 · Postby **AndrewJZX100** » Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:12 pm

keen to see some pics of current paint condition, tossing up plastidipping mine yellow but would be a bit annoyed if it looks like arse after a few months.

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Tue Aug 19, 2014 11:31 am

you would probs say mine looked like arse but its been over a year easy.

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:09 pm

soooo update! been busy( or lazy) and not posted anything this week.

thanks so much "Pezchops" for the resistor that goes in my airbag plug! annoyed i couldnt thankyou in person but ill see u round hopefully!

and my cans arived! had a 3 day weekend to paint sebo. sat+sun= rain all day. so monday started sunny and i prepped. tapped up lights( i didnt need to last time, but i have different plastidip coloured lights at the back and eye lids on the front), tapped and newspapered most of the softtop and wast rim. then as im about to paint the sky looks dark and it gets windy. so i put a tarp over it all and waited till after work tuesday. 6 cans, going over the old 15monthish job, imo looks so much better. doesnt look like a 3k respray but for 100 bucks im pretty darn happy with how it turned out. im going to redo the taillights, they are currently "smoke" plastidip. they look sh1t now. gonna dump a few pics.
first some pics from before.

and after ( lights are a bit wet if u were wondering)

let me know what you think! and any questions or shizzzzz

happy to discuss plastidip or anything xP

cheers yo

James

AndrewJZX100 · Postby **AndrewJZX100** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:22 pm

That came out pretty good, nice work mate

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:45 pm

Looks good, like the windscreen sticker :mrgreen:

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:40 pm

haha thanks andrew and okibi ^^
if you cant make fun of urself (or car) , what can you do?

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 11:56 am

perchased a new splitter

should be here in 2 weeks ish. super excited for it, im a massive sucker for aero!( even though i have none) I WANT LOTS!

mr bender · Postby **mr bender** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:01 pm

james_p93 wrote:perchased a new splitter should be here in 2 weeks ish. super excited for it, im a massive sucker for aero!( even though i have none) I WANT LOTS!

what sort did you buy?

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:32 pm

The gap between your bonnet and front bumper should look more like this:

- rather than this:

Your front bumper is actually sitting on the inside edges of the headlights, causing the bumper to be pushed forwards and upwards - hence the larger gap.

Not sure if there's a reason for this due to any mods, if not, you should re-fit it to close the gap.
When you fit the front bumper, angle it at 45* downwards to ensure those "bumper corners" near the inside edge of the headlights slide BEHIND them; when you clip it in place it should then look like the top phot and the gap will be much narrower.

james_p93 · Postby **james_p93** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 9:23 pm

mr bender wrote:
james_p93 wrote:perchased a new splitter should be here in 2 weeks ish. super excited for it, im a massive sucker for aero!( even though i have none) I WANT LOTS!

what sort did you buy?

there was a group buy and i got one for an SE , dont know much more about it haha, its functional though as aposed to the "style" one which was offered.

and simon, yea bumber is hanging down in that shot, when i damaged the front it broke a clip or something or bracket
i used to zip tie it on and it was just like stock but i just leave it to the "home made elastic quickrelease" to keep it on. also the angle makes it look worse haha.