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27581, the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-28-02 04:00 PM
Here is the car that the paint guy has in the shop currently...if I get my shit together, I will be the next one... it was ironic that it was an eclipse!

http://groups.msn.com/1995eclipsegs/paint.msnw

Check out the hood scoop (??) I don't know but this kid was creative I guess. He got some sort of blitz kit and did some bondo work that was creative. To finish up he will have an aerospeed aluminum wing that I spotted out back.

Now I just gotta figure out what kit I should get(cheap) before I paint.

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27582, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by iamnotwhoiam, Jul-28-02 04:06 PM
Kit? I say stock... :-)
27583, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by PowerEclipses, Jul-28-02 04:14 PM
dood, he didnt paint it seperatly? doesnt sound very professional to me esp on color change and body kit?
27584, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-28-02 04:23 PM
>dood, he didnt paint it seperatly? doesnt sound very
>professional to me esp on color change and body kit?

Paint what separately?
27585, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by eclipse804, Jul-28-02 04:15 PM
WOah looks like a crater went through his hood hehe. That's the strangest looking hood scoop I've seen.
27586, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ToTaLEkLyPz99, Jul-28-02 04:25 PM
i like the way he did the side skirts contuning them onto the door that looks good...
27587, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-28-02 04:25 PM
Yeah...the kid did all the body work and then brought it to the paint guy... cept the kid fucked up everything pretty much. He used a part from an a/c vent to create the "hood scoop" and then used bondo to try and smooth it out. The paint guy had to undo and redo everything the kid tried to do to the car cuz it was all fucked up.

Although I like his idea of continuing the molded look on to the door from the side skirts.
27588, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-29-02 05:41 AM
OOOOOOOOK.....

So does anyone see the big headlight gap????!

http://groups.msn.com/1995eclipsegs/paint.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=37

http://groups.msn.com/1995eclipsegs/paint.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=38

What do you think that is from, anyone?



Oh yeah, I have a question...if I got a body kit designed for 97+ would it fit with the 95 headlights and just have a gap, or would it just not fit?

TIA
27589, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by eclipse804, Jul-29-02 11:25 AM
A LOT of kits have headlight gap like that, even honda kits etc. You would have to have the shop add fiberglass and cut to fill in the gap.
27590, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by PowerEclipses, Jul-29-02 11:43 AM
i mean that he didnt paint the front seperatly and the sides seperatly but i just saw that he molded it all on so idk? lol i wonder how it looks in person
27591, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-29-02 02:13 PM
Really impressive in person... the eclipse was shit when the kid brought it in...and this guy did a miracle on it...it looks sooo badass in person man! I helped him work on it for 4 hours today...it is pretty damn badass!

I will post pics later...although they didn't come out very well...don't hardly begin to do it justice.

Yellow is just the shit...wish I could repaint in that color!

27592, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-29-02 02:50 PM
here it is....

http://groups.msn.com/1995eclipsegs/yellowfinished.msnw

driver's side door is open that's why it looks off...
27593, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ToTaLEkLyPz99, Jul-29-02 03:11 PM
what is up with that hood it looks like he shoots out grapefruits..looks good otherwise i like how he did the side skirts...looks good!!!!
27594, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-29-02 03:27 PM
Yeah the hood thing was the kid's little "invention"...I didn't care for it too much....
27595, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by chachi, Jul-29-02 03:48 PM
That looks sweet. Almost makes me wanna get a body kit and repaint. You know how he did the side skirt thing? And how much would a repaint like that cost?
27596, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by Blk95Talon, Jul-30-02 12:35 AM
bwaaa haa haa...the "hood scoop" is really a cupholder...it could hold a beer for him at 75+ mph
27597, RE: the eclipse getting painted right before mine...
Posted by ghost, Jul-30-02 01:15 AM
That cost the kid about $700...it's a single stage PPG or whatever it's called. Sides are done by the kid himself...with bondo. However I he is probably going to crack the molded shit pretty fast....the bumper is already starting to give and I can see the crack forming. I'm not going to mold anything on my kit...but I am doing the door moldings since that was my idea originally a long time ago. I'm glad that he implemented it so that I know how to do it. hehe :)