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PAINT
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Red Base Coat
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On to the painting.....
First John would lay down the red base coat...

Back in the booth all prepped and ready to go....

Let the painting begin.

It was so wild to watch the process.
Getting to help out really gave me a sense of the effort that goes into a good paint job!

Finally a red car....

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Black Base Coat
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With the body in red base coat, John now had to get the car ready for its second color...black. He left it in red base coat and let the coat flash. Then we decided how high the black would come up on the bottom of the body. He taped the line for the black, then papered the body to avoid any over spray of the black base coat onto the red body.

Here it is taped and ready.

Sprayed

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Clear coat
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Once the black had flashed...

The car was then ready for the clear coat. John removed the tape that was placed for the black base coat. Both colors would be sprayed with the clear at the same time. This would keep you from having as much of a transition in the paint.

Now its ready for the clear coat....

All painted.
Looks like a totally different creature, Eh?

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BODY PIECES
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On to the other body pieces...
They received the same treatment.
Red base...taped off then black base....then cleared.

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Bumpers
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red and taped for the bottom black...

Here we are in red and black…

Mirrors and wiper cowl...

I could not wait to see the mirrors on!

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GFX
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Look at the gorgeous shine on the frt. gfx. bottom.

Look like its wet doesn't it.
here are the rear gfx.

Same beautiful gloss...

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Assembly
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As we are putting the rear bumper cover together! GFX on…

We have just added the lower spoiler...

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DIRECTORY FOR RAIF'S EXTERIOR SITE
01 Site Overview
02 Red Window Tint
03 Red Window Vinyl
04 Stance
05 Bumper Insert Conversion
06 Ground Effects
07 Lower GFX Spoiler
08 SunCoast Hood
09 Shaving
10 Shaving Electronics
11 Antenna Relocation & Gas Tank Filler Neck Reroute
12 Headlight Conversion
13 Clear Front Turn Signals
14 Exterior Underbody Neon
15 Strobes
16 Spoiler
17 4h Gen Mirror Conversion
18 Tailights
19 Primer
20 Paint <<<
21 Emblems
22 Smoothed TA Fender Vents
23 Clear Rear Side Markers
24 Paint: Jam Touch Up

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