Plasti-Dipped lower front bumper
 

Not sure what exactly to call that part, but i taped it off and plasti-dipped it. Very happy with how well it turned out and how easy it was to do!
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Thought about doing this myself on my firestorm, now I have an awesome idea of what it would look like, haven't decided if it's for me yet, but I do like it, good job and thanks for sharing!

Looks good! I like the contrast against the red.

that looks great. I wonder what would look good on a RAVEN fr-s ?
gray - red ??
I guess I should try it and see ... hmm

did u get clean lines when you peeled back the tape? usually plasti dip will tear when dry if you are removing the edge taping. if not how did you do it?

How will this effect cleaning the car in general? I imagine cleaners won't do so well or even take off the plastidip coat eventually.

I did this to my car too. All the new cars have the center black. http://www.gtspirit.com/wp-content/u...by-SR-Auto.jpg Plastidip, is easy to clean. I have washed mine with soap and a rag.

Dude that looks legendary. I'm gonna do it.

Nice job man! It's a must have look I reckon for 86s.

The method is you spray 3 to 4 heavy coats of dip with minimal drying time between coats and while its still wet you peel the masking tape, that way the dip hasn't had time to dry and bond with the tape yet and you get clean lines when you peel. I got this technique from dipyourcar.com, he's got a youtube channel under the same name, check him out.

What did you do to prep the painted area before you sprayed it ?

Looks good! I wonder how this would look on Asphalt, haven't seen anyone doing this to it, seems like it might blend in though.

Plastidip
 

Instead of painter's masking tape try black vinyl electrician's tape instead.
Produced a cleaner finished edge without the plastidip adhering.

Looks clean. Not bad at all.

Keeping minimal drying time in between coats is usually the way to do it, plus spraying a new coat on top of barely dry plastidip also liquifies the bottom coats enough so that by the time you finish the last coat, not even the first bottom coats have bonded to the tape yet, so you'll get a clean line when you peel the tape as soon as you finish your last coat.

I used goof off on a rag to prep the area.

Nice! I did the same to my Firestorm FR-S and the look quickly grew on me.
I didn't do nearly the amount of taping as you did though... haha

Also to get the lines clean, I remove the tape that touches the plastidip immediately after I finish my last coat. If I let it set too long, the dip will lift off with the tape.

yea i did this yesterday, and a tiny dime size spot lifted with the tape. so i ripped everything off. will attempt again over the weekend.:bonk:

This is tempting..makes me wonder if I should do it to my Firestorm or not....:bonk:

I use Windex with vinegar and a microfiber cloth to prep. It's worked on everything I dipped.

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Same thing happened to me. I re-taped off the 1" x 2" area that peeled off, and resprayed it. The plastidip "seemed" together after several coats. Now you cant see the fixed area.

Did this with my Firestorm GT86 in mid-may but I used white plasti-dip
Black looked to me like it was missing a piece of his lip:

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Nice !!!!

Looks good actually, subtle and OEMish

did you also spray underneath part of that area or you just left it alone? looks legit.

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To easy to pass up on at least trying .. Really just wanted to see how it would look .. Not quite even . I'll straighten it out on the next round

I went one step further. Decent protection from cones. Don't mind the dirt and the bugs.
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For this reason alone I wish I didn't have an asphalt lol. The whiteouts looks amazing with this done!

I'm gonna do this on mine. Only thing I was worried about is leaving the plastidip on for long periods of time in hot weather. I saw what plastidip did to some of the other cars on this forum. So I was thinking about covering that bottom part with vinyl first before i plasti dipped it.

Care to link to "what it did to other cars"?

Been on the fence about this. Really like the look, but from some angles it looks like the car is missing it's lower lip...

I've got a roll of gloss black vinyl that I might use (instead of dip) to try it out...Would probably look better/more complete with an actual lower lip installed, to "frame" the negative space from the blacked out center section.

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44259
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Interesting! It seems the colored varieties bleed through into the clear. I wonder if the black/white could do the same thing?

If it did bleed through I would just wrap it with vinyl then.

Has anyone done this or something like it to the front bumper on a BRZ?

that a 10series?

i dont think so. the headlights doesnt look like it is.

^^^^^ its a Whiteout!! :)

thanks, has anyone tried this with the 10 series yet? :iono:

this!!! It is so hard to put any contrast on our cars and have it look good