Just finished my Z today :happydance: . going to be posting pics in about an hour. I did the front and rear emblems.

Plasti-Dip
 

Just finished Plasti-Dipping my front and rear emblems:happydance:. Tell me what you think. I most likely will be redoing them :shakes head: (not to my standards)

Looks like you need a few more coats, very close though.

That was 4 coats

Keep the plasti-dip convo in this thread:

http://www.the370z.com/exterior-inte...t-awesome.html

I did a whole car. It's so easy to apply on.

eh, i wouldnt do too much on the Z
plastidip is old hat now. i did my emblems just so i wouldnt have so much silver on the car but i wouldnt do rims in it

Why not ?????

i didn't remove anything, expect both side mirror cover. Everything else just get a wild tape so it won't over extend to where u gonna plastic dip on. Hope that helps

where do you usually buy plastic dip from? Homedepot? Autozone? I would search but there's a ton of pages lol

Home depot

A lot places that sell spray paint (Home Depot, TrueValue, Ace, WalMart, auto parts stores, &c) will carry PlastiDip. The bigger the store, the better your chances. HomeDepot advertises PD on their web site.

thanks yea just noticed home depot has it. What type of product is used to wash a car with plastic dip? any kind of SPECIAL CAR WASH safe for plasti dip?

I haven't used the stuff ... yet. I like the way it looks on the door handles and fangs and will probably end up doing at least one of those eventually. I'm just following this thread to see what other ideas ppl are coming up with.

Most of the durability problems I've seen on here have to do with wear on the door handles and rock dings on the fangs. Going by the lack of other complaints, I'll venture that you can use anything you'd use on the factory paint. Maybe someone with experience will chime in and confirm/deny that.

I really just want to have fun with it :) and remove it within a month or two. While I wait for the carbon fiber on the z to be finished i wanted to plasti dip the red :)

I run My z through random car washes and not one problem.

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Just do this to your remaining areas that arent real CF...?

Create Carbon Fiber Look with Plasti Dip - YouTube

You can buy red plastidip and black dip. Then get the glossifier to put over the top. Then take pics to show how different real carbon fiber is next to plastidiped panels. I think it would look good after watching the video. But i have yet to try it!

You can only get white or black cans at Home Depots, etc....you really wanna see some crazy colors hit up Dipyourcar.com So many colors so many extras to play with!

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8504/8...05cd9542_o.jpg

I agree with just about everything minus the last sentence. PlastiDip does indeed dry in 20 minutes it doesn't fully "cure" for 48 hours or so. If you Dipped a wheel and twenty minutes later you ran a pressure washer over it you probably are gonna tear it off. Let that wheel sit for awhile and come back a week later and you can all but put that pressure washer 1/4" away from the wheel and the PD should stay on. I would never put a clear bra over PD, but if I was to do so I would give it a few days to "cure" I wouldn't do it twenty minutes later.

Didn't think anyone would be dumb enough to take a pressure washer to their car 20 minutes after they plasti-dipped it!

I decided to wait for the carbon fiber doors and other parts, after I decided to tape/mask some areas lol

Aren't you suppose to do 3-5 layers and leave 8-12 minute in between each layer? By the time you get to the last coats and peel the tape, its hard for me to get those sharp lines. Do you suggest heavier coats and pulling the tape way earlier?

My career is based on fixing and stopping stupidity. The things I see people do everyday defies all logic and common sense. I assume stupidity, it's just easier that way. :bowrofl:

There is some new thought that you should not dip and peel, dip and peel. Instead, dip you layers on and the last layer go a little heavier and then peel as soon as you are done applying over the tape. When PD is applied to PD the lower layers reliquify giving you a cleaner line when you peel. I haven't tried it but the dipyourcar forum boys swear by it.

Now for some awesomeness. This weekend I will be blowing the top off of the PlastiDip world when I dip my Z like my lil test ride here.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8512/8...400a612a89.jpg
IMG_0281 by DufDaddy17, on Flickr


It is actually a black base with a pigment called Interferene Violet in the glossifier. The pigment reflect violet in direct light otherwise the car looks black.

DuffDaddy, you are gunna do your whole Z in that metallic dark violet??

That will be awesome!

In for results.

has anyone ever played with plasti-dip?
 

I kinda wanna plasti-dip my emblem

Please please please use the SEARCH feature it's amazing! And to answer your question yes. It's super easy and look good,

:iagree:
Try this!

The best thing to do is simply scribe the edge with an exacto knife. Use two or three layers of masking tape, and you will have a nice guide for the knife to scribe. You don't have to use a lot of pressure.

Yup!

I want to see this metallic dark violet you speak of....

Look at the little car... Thats the metallic dark violet.:tup:

Little car is blocked at work. I was more or less posting so I am subscribed as well to see the update of the Z.

The dipyourcar guy is what I was referencing. I'm not sure if he has a new method to do hard lines.

As for the violet... It's like black cherry.... Black violet. That's pretty badass.

wow! cant wait to see this!

:iagree:

looks clean, how many coats did you spray?

It's achieved by laying down a solid black base. Then a coat or two of clear dip that has this interference pigment mixed in (you can get a bunch of different colors beside violet). The more of the clear you put on the more pigment in place so more violet gets reflected. So you could go from a very little violet reflection to a whole lot. I would say that this is a whole lot, I'm gonna go a little less violet than you see in this pic. After you have your violet where you want it I sprayed to gloss coats. Hopefully whether permitting I can get this done over the weekend.

U have any pics of your rays dipped? I was thinking of changing the colour of my rims, maybe plastic dip is the easiest to go, if i don't like, u say it peel off easy?