Does anyone paint thier Nitrous bottles?
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Racer
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Does anyone paint thier Nitrous bottles?
Here is an earlier picture from when I was building the roll bar. You can see the bottles "cut" into the floor. They were white and with nothing else white in the car they seemed out of place.
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This is after, I decided Black would look more appropriate. I had the emblem laying around from earlier, and picked up a second from C5 Creations. (he carries a lot of stuff):
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[/IMG]This is after, I decided Black would look more appropriate. I had the emblem laying around from earlier, and picked up a second from C5 Creations. (he carries a lot of stuff):
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Racer
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From: Newark de
"Thats looks really good, How did you get the embelems to stick on the round bottles? They havent started to curl up? "
HEAT. I got the emblems nice and hot. I would like to say I used a heat gun, but my heat gun is actually an old Hair dryer. I bent them more than they needed to be and now they are curved to match the bottle. For the adhesive, you can go to most any auto parts store (I got mine at PepBoys)get the automotive trim adhesive tape. It comes in black (gray) and white. This is the same 3M tape that manufacturers use to apply side body mouldings etc... Apply it to the back of the emblem (after taking the old stuff off) then turn it right side up and trim the edges with a single edge razor blade. Then peel off the backing and apply just like a new emblem.
I probably shouldn't give away my secrets everyone will be buying up all the used/removed emblems that sell so much cheaper than new ones. I think I paid $6.00 for the roll of adhesive double sided tape, enough to do maybe 4 emblems.
HEAT. I got the emblems nice and hot. I would like to say I used a heat gun, but my heat gun is actually an old Hair dryer. I bent them more than they needed to be and now they are curved to match the bottle. For the adhesive, you can go to most any auto parts store (I got mine at PepBoys)get the automotive trim adhesive tape. It comes in black (gray) and white. This is the same 3M tape that manufacturers use to apply side body mouldings etc... Apply it to the back of the emblem (after taking the old stuff off) then turn it right side up and trim the edges with a single edge razor blade. Then peel off the backing and apply just like a new emblem.
I probably shouldn't give away my secrets everyone will be buying up all the used/removed emblems that sell so much cheaper than new ones. I think I paid $6.00 for the roll of adhesive double sided tape, enough to do maybe 4 emblems.
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Racer
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From: Newark de
NO,NO,NO
Not the bottle HEAT THE EMBLEM! As far as heating the bottle, you couldn't heat it any more with a hair dryer than a nitrous bottle heater anyway. No harm there even if you didn't do it right.
Not the bottle HEAT THE EMBLEM! As far as heating the bottle, you couldn't heat it any more with a hair dryer than a nitrous bottle heater anyway. No harm there even if you didn't do it right.
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I used Laser Lights, they are laser engravable Decals. I have a white and a black bottle bought the material to do the same logo as Black/white and white Black/ here is the black bottle
Did the same to the NX Nitrous filter, painted it Black repaced the fittings w/ black ones and slapped a black cylinder decal around it.
Did the same to the NX Nitrous filter, painted it Black repaced the fittings w/ black ones and slapped a black cylinder decal around it.
