Anyone else bothered by sunlight bouncing off the hood scoop?

It works, my friends Land Rover has it from factory, and helps at night with oncoming headlights. Its around the same shape as yours too, nice looking!

 

This is what I did. Traded a guy 1 for 1, since he had to come from out of town.

 

Dude just spray it with that plasti dip stuff. It dries into a plastic rubber feeling stuff and if you don't like it it peels off and doesnt mess up the paint underneath the dip. I did mine. It takes few coats to really get a good solid even layer. YouTube plasti dip and you'll see. And if people call you a pussy for derpin instead of paintin just tell them, atleast mine peels off.

 

I'd like to see some pics of this Plasti Dip coated hood. I'm still skeptical of this stuff.

 

Having completed the plastidip hood blackout deal several weeks ago, here are my thoughts for those going this route:

- Don't screw around, take the hood off and prop it against a stable object at a relatively steep angle (ie, close to vertical). The plastidip can sprays much more evenly when it's close to vertical.
- You're limiting factor is the time allowed by the dip before you pull your tape. I wasn't able to get the texture/coverage I wanted across the entire area before the dip began setting up. This foiled my first attempt. For round 2, I sprayed 2 corners and about half of the hood, hitting the edges heavily. I then pulled that tape and proceeded to do the remainder of the hood.
- For subsequent coats, I taped back to the crisp lines and repeated the process. One tip is to lay your base tape about an inch outside of your desired line. That way you can just retape the actual edge you're trying to paint, without recovering the hood.
- Use low-adhesion painters tape. The regular blue 3M tape pulled some of my hood paint (very pissed)... Hence the sticker in front corner.
- I laid out a "mat" of painters tape on a cutting board and traced various round objects (bondo can, etc) to get the desired radii for the corners. I used an angle-transfer jig (woodworking) to transfer the angle between the front edge of hood and the shoulder line to the tape mat and cut out the radii for each corner. I believe the front is about 2-1/2 inch radius, rear about 3/4 inch.
- There's a thread on a more expo-oriented site with additional info, as well as dipyourcar.com.
-If you're leaving the scoop un-dipped, pull it and reinstall later. No sense risking a wrinkle/tear in the dip by trying to pull it off of that section after spraying.
- Last tip... it's a little tough to correctly follow the "shoulder" of the hood with tape, expecially in artificial light. I waited until evening (cooler hood anyway) and pulled the truck into the street. Looking at about eye-level from the front, I made pencil reference marks at the front, back, and intermediate spots, then taped to my reference marks.

Cheap thrills. Low commitment. Relatively unique. Draws more comments thus far than most of the technical stuff I've done to the truck.

Good luck. DC

 

Pretty sick

 

Looks killer! More pics from different angles if you can! Who did the work? Pay someone or did it yourself??

 

Forgot to mention... the truck is wet in the photos above. The color variance you see in the blackout is from it being partially dry. It's not perfectly even, but a hell of a lot closer than it appears in the photos. I've dipped other stuff that didn't need to be taped and you can generally get the dip to lay down smooth and with a consistent "sheen" or lack thereof. This was by far the hardest time I've had getting a consistent finish with an aerosol can. Like most of us, I've been forced to develop a relatively solid skillset with the rustoleum/krylon/duplicolor products but the viscosity of the dip, and the seemingly high can pressure gave me a hard time on this project. I'd like to try running it through a wagner type sprayer at a lower pressure... which is likely why the dipyourcar.com site is now marketing a customized pneumatic sprayer setup for doing your whole car... or 20 hoods at a time.

Other uses for the dip... Spray your spare recovery shackles, hi-lift components, and anything else you store under your rear seats to prevent them from rattling. Spray the handle of your "Damn it I'm stuck" shovel to keep the wood from drying out on your rack. Spray your impact sockets to help protect rims from scratches when rotating tires.

 

Great idea to spray your shovel and sockets! There is certainly an art to using plastidip...I attempted my wifes wheels on her car only for an epic fail, too inconsistent with the spray...wasted hours of time and money!

 

Looks great!!! I've been wanting to do this a loong time ago, i just dont have the time to do it as it should be!

 

Cell phone pics upon request.

Only slight variance in texture of the dip coating. Front left corner shows a small bit of dip that snuck under my last round of tape, creating a slight "corner" where the radiused tape met the shoulder tape. I just need to x-acto that little nub off. Front right corner (under "illest" sticker) is where the factory paint pulled up. I used duplicolor etching primer and paint to ghetto-repair the bare spot... Unhappy with the color-match so instead matched the bronze FJ's with a $2 sticker... problem solved.

Note : You can't "clear" a dip can's nozzle by holding it upside down (at least I couldn't) and spraying for a couple of seconds. Make sure you wipe the nozzle in-between coats and DO NOT begin spraying without hitting a piece of scrap cardboard or similar first. It's way to easy to shoot a clog or drip onto your 90% completed hood and the stuff does not "self-level" like a normal enamel.

 

I've never really had an issue myself however I have polarized sunglasses on at all times if the sun is out when I'm driving.

 

Ok not a computer tech so bare with me here. I did if remember right abt 5 coats. I used 2 cans an some change. And the white flecks Øn the black is cig ash not a chip/scratch. I had to go back out and verify lol.

 

Even with my polarized Oakleys I still squint at things.

 

nope.

 

Same here. I kept meaning to come on there and ask/post the same question, but stumbled on this today.

Need to check this out.

And check this one too.

As for the majority of the hood being black, I don't dig that. I'd prefer just the skewp to be un-shiny.

 

plastidip..

 

Not bad... you need to do the roof now to match.

Frank

 

Oakley polarized