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They're talking about electrical tape. I'm talking about plastic tape, that's what it says on it, I know they have it at Ace, not sure about other places. I find it sticks better than electrical tape, plus you don't have to admit that you used electrical tape, haha.

I went to my parents house and started blacking out the trim on the front bumper. Got the whole bumper done and it looks great. I took a bunch of pictures but unfortunately the stupid SDHC card took a shit on me and when I was copying the pictures to my pc it got halfway done and then gave me an error and deleted all my pictures. It won't let me format it now and my pictures are all gone.

What a piece of shit. PNY sucks.

I'll get more pictures hopefully when I finish the rest of the trim.

Finished the job! Looks pretty good. The sides of the car were actually much more difficult than the bumpers. Oddly enough. I was expecting the opposite since they're straight. The bumpers have a little gap above the chrome trim that you can press the edge of the tape into and it makes it look real nice with no exposed chrome. The side trim does not have a gap on top or bottom so you are forced to try to line the tape up perfectly (too hard and time consuming) or overlap the edges and use a razor blade to cut it to match the edge of the trim. Unfortunately cutting it perfectly straight and not accidently cutting the tape too thin and leaving exposed chrome was way too hard as well. I ended up cutting the tape so it covered the chrome and then some to make sure no chrome was exposed.

The first time I did it I thought I had it perfectly cut and I peeled the excess tape off and there were little strips of chrome showing here and there on the edge and it looked like crap. I'm hoping it'll stick to the plastic on the top and bottom of the chrome pretty good.

As I was cleaning the chrome on the rear bumper I noticed it was coming off on one side. So I decided to just peel it all off and save myself the time and effort of taping it. Looks fine without it.

Door handles next?

Yeah I thought about that but I can't see electrical tape sticking to the curves on those handles and/or looking good.

Will post-facelift handles work on these cars? How hard to swap out?

Good question. I think they're kind of a bitch to swap out. Hard to get your hard in there. I had to do it once and I don't remember it being fun.

I was kidding. They're not that hard to replace. Not convenient, by any means, but with a little patience, not that difficult either.

You got any white handles for me?

How do you guys feel about my hood scoop? It's not finished. Still have to finish cutting out the hood and reinforcing it somehow. But that's basically how it's going to look but that tiny gap between the hood and scoop will be gone when it's done.

I think it's looks swell.

I like it, should look good when it's painted, I just hope you have something under it to give it a purpose

lol I have an EJ20H motor, 06 TMIC, TD04, Group A lightweight pulleys, Clutchmasters lightweight flywheel, 20mm swaybar front and rear, STI struts and springs and a 3" downpipe, 3" resonator with 3" Borla muffler. But for now I'm just trying to find an EJ22T motor to drop in. Eventually I definately want to build a motor and get a larger turbo and maybe FMIC but that's in the future. Now I just want to drive the damn thing.

I wouldn't install a scoop on my car if it wasn't going to be functional and serve a purpose. I've always thought it was stupid when people put scoops on their cars or cars come with scoops from the factory...subaru!...when they don't have an intercooler.

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I think this was a great solution that I finished in less time than it took to drink a beer...

3M 764 2" vinyl tape - cost like 8 bucks. Apparently it doesn't get all nasty like electrical tape - and it definitely has WAY better adhesive properties.

I just used a plastic tire lever (I own a bicycle shop) to tuck it under the upper and lower edges before cutting the excess.


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Welcome to the BBS, and that looks pretty good!