DIY - "JDM" Side Vent Piston Badge (Red)

[jeffsides]

Did mine today

[jeffsides]

[jeffsides]

Along with doing my calipers.

[jeffsides]

[ZeN6]

Here's mine:

[Nitro22]

Originally Posted by ZeN6

Here's mine:

^ I like!

[showbe]

Please dont use sharpie. I remember seeing the OP's picture and it looked horrible. If you do this please use paint or something similar like the other posters.

[ipothas]

Originally Posted by ZeN6

Here's mine:

Wow, that badge looks amazing. Mind I ask how you did it?

[ZeN6]

Originally Posted by Khalis

This DIY is to turn your boring old USDM Piston Badge into a ghetto "JDM" Piston Badge.

@Khalis: I don't mean to Tread Jack. If you want to remove this I can.

Originally Posted by ipothas

Wow, that badge looks amazing. Mind I ask how you did it?

This is how I did it:

I basically did the same thing as your DIY on painting your Scion Emblems.

I sprayed 2 coats of White DupliColor primer.
I then followed that up with 2-3 coats of Gloss Black DupliColor.

I left it to dry over night just in case.

Then I went ahead and did the red, which I used Simply Acrylic Scarlet Paint.
At first I tried doing as Jeffsides did and painted with a small paint brush but my hands are not that steady and I keep messing up.

So what I did instead was put down a blob of the paint in the areas that was to be red and then used a Q-Tip Cotton Swab and wiped the excess off leaving the red in the indents. I did a section at a time (inside the 86, then the circle outside, then the two lines on the pistons).

After I wiped off the red there was smears on the black portions. To clean that I dipped the Q-tips in water and carefully wiped away the red that I don’t want. (Wasted a lot of Q-Tips, I used both sides once and tossed them. Did not want to drag any red)

For the first piston it took me awhile (2-3hrs) because I use rolled up paper towels. I then switched to Q-tips and it worked great. The second one took me an hour but I was watching TV as well.

I let it dry over night just to be sure. The next day there was still some red hazing on the black portions and water wouldn’t take it off so I used Lysol Disinfecting Cleaning Wipes, and CAREFULLY wiped the haze away.

Then I put 2 coats of DupliColor Clear Coat.

Done

I got all the material from Wal-Mart.

I don’t have any pictures of the process but here is a couple where the pistons are on my car.

[Khalis]

@ZeN6, Thanks for your input. I don't mind at all! My method is coming off anyway. Not much of a DIY on my part haha.

[jeffsides]

Very nice @ZeN6

[raul]

I did mine with Testors enamel, blue tape masking and tiny brush.

[jeffsides]

Carbon vinyl

[chris's fr-s]

Originally Posted by jeffsides

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Carbon vinyl

Where DI'd you get the carbon cut outs