Thanks wzlfit

Hi Mr. Hollow,
May I know your paint guy contact/location?
I am looking for paint guy that would do good job and decent price.
Thanks

 

$100 sounds about right. i paid $150 to get my mugen rear under spoiler painted.

 

New life Auto collision in Montclair, owner Arturo.

Although it might be a ways for you he does good work on the cheap.

 

Thanks for the info

 

Not too much, engine is now at about 142ps. Small amount for the money I've dumped into it, but that is the way of mekatuning (natural aspiration) and even more so on an engine that was never really designed for making power. It's peppy though. Revs are about the same, 7100.

Today I took out about another 17~18lbs of unneeded weight, not counting the 32lbs previously from my sub, amp and box. Carpet behind the front seats was cut out, that was about 6lbs and then stripped out the Dynamat that I laid when I first got the car. That was a chore. Still want to remove the factory sound deadening as well. Added a small bit of weight back in, with the really tiny Rockford amp under the passenger seat to power the front components.

Forgot, also installed the HPS cold air intake, just curious if I can feel any difference, HPS included a dyno sheet showing a 7hp/9tor increase over the stock box. And changed out my factory Phillips HID bulbs with some new Phillips bulbs at a slightly more kelvin.

 

Here is a pic of the jdp diffuser after paint. It came out really well.




Here is a crappy shot of it in the daylight. I'll try and take some better pics this weekend (FFF Meet!)

 

Damn thats cheap. Maybe i just need better paint people. Its quite a bit more than that to get my wing painted here. I just hope it turns out well, should get it back by Wednesday.

You could always do lyons spoiler mod for now. cost you a few cents to buy the extra bolts. You can always go back to stock if it isnt your thing.

About the cf, the clear coat on it wouldnt be affected if you primed and painted over it right? I had a cf diffuser from jdp before and the finish was nice and smooth with no scratches and pinholes. I was expecting the fiberglass wing to be the same quality, but its sort of in rough shape with some dings and pinholes... Thats why i kinda regret getting non cf, because even though it was cheaper to start, i now have to pay extra to fix the imperfections :/

 

nice man! my jdp hood is somewhere on the way here.....

 

Put on the fit ev tail lights today. I will try and put the front headlights on sat "hopefully the fit" the ev tails have different pigtails on the brake lights luckily they were included. I just t-tapped so I don't splice the original.

 

Spent Father's Day giving the Fit a good wash and wax — plus, installed the hood edge deflector. Here's a photo of the the recently installed JDM tails, too.

 

Nice work, matches your setup well

Looks good Chris, congrats on finally getting it from JDP

Oh wow, you don't see those tails very often.

Authentics from a EV?

Looking good, black is not easy to keep clean

 

Yes they are authentic ev tails. I also have the headlights. I am going to try and fit them on this Friday. Hopefully I can make it out to fff on sat. Gotta find a baby sitter for the kids.

 

I bought some spoiler brackets from a TFC member, but the pieces were "off" a little bit. I'm looking for another alternative that has a bigger contact patch on the trunk so it won't wobble around so much.

Your wording confused me a little, do you want to paint the cf diffuser? The carbon fiber wraps around the fiberglass and then its given a thick varnish then a clear coat. So my guess is because JDP usually wraps their fiberglass whatever imperfections came out of the mold didn't matter because it was going to get wrapped. All in all I would still by the fiberglass and primer/paint (like taffeta white) than buy the cf and then paint on top...its a waste of perfectly good carbon fiber, plus the whole issue of oxidation.

Awesome, your ride is coming along very nicely

What is different about the EV headlights?

 

Oh what i mean is you were worried about the clear coat on a cf diffuser being damaged, but i thought that if you just painted over that it wouldnt really be an issue. So if that were the case you could just paint the cf diffuser directly without worrying about imperfections since those seem to have a better finish right from jdp. Hope that clears it up.

I didnt know he simply wrapped the fiber glass part and then varnished it. I thought the whole thing was actually cf. guess thats why the finish is a lot smoother.

Anyway... I hope my wing is done tomorrow!!!

 

Carbon fiber is a woven material like a fabric that is cast with resin.

Carbon fiber is super light weight and strong, but its not very rigid by itself. So it is often "wrapped" around something stronger. In this case a fiberglass piece. Fiberglass is not very strong, but wrapped in cf it becomes a lot stronger so you have the lightness of the cf and the fiberglass...which is a lighter than aluminum, but just as strong.

Now high end carbon fiber pieces such as Ferrari/ lambo pieces are all carbon fiber, multiple pieces of cf strengthening each other.

 

Tails are led with a blue frame. The headlights are the same color, other than that no real difference. They are only on the ev and ev's are a lease and not sold.

 

That is a beautiful tail light. If I had a blue fit I'd totally find myself a set!

 

Yes it is nice. I think it also goes well with my tw ge8 it's subtle.

 

Looks good! What kind of spoiler is that? Doesnt look like a plain hatch.

 

It's a modulo spoiler. I also have an rs modulo sport spoiler that I am contemplating on putting on. Still need to paint it. Looks like this.