My hood doesn't match my bumper, help please
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My hood doesn't match my bumper, help please
Hey guys I'm going to post a few pirctures here you guys let me know what you think I can do about these
Need help on seeing what I can do.
I got a new bumper that needs to be installed and painted so if you can factor that into a solution that would help thanks guys
Need help on seeing what I can do.
I got a new bumper that needs to be installed and painted so if you can factor that into a solution that would help thanks guys
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Can't tell for sure... In my case, i bought the RK Sport SS hood.. Fitment is a little different..
Your's looks like a OEM SS hood.. Play with it a little.. See if you can move it around some.
Probably not much help.. looks good though.
Your's looks like a OEM SS hood.. Play with it a little.. See if you can move it around some.
Probably not much help.. looks good though.
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I asume that your talking about the paint and not the fitment. The hood needs to be blended to the fenders and nose. It would probrably be best if you had the hood repsrayed with the bumper so they are not trying to blend 3 different shades. A good body guy will make it all look factory, won't be cheap though.
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No don't believe it would be cheap. Also my bumper got smashed up so that will have to be painted anyways, and a new fender gotta go on too, so I figure they can do everything at once. Got any estimates on what it would all run????
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Just to give you an idea of what you're in for, I had my hood, front bumper, ground effects, and spoiler painted... and then they had to blend my front fenders and my rear bumper to get it to match. Total cost was about 2200.
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it almost looks as if the paint on bumper has more metallic flake than the hood which you can do nothing about unless you repaint the hood or blend the fenders, hood and bumper together
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Originally Posted by z28C4maro82z
No don't believe it would be cheap. Also my bumper got smashed up so that will have to be painted anyways, and a new fender gotta go on too, so I figure they can do everything at once. Got any estimates on what it would all run????
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I got my work done from a shop that restores corvettes and muscle cars. I got my hood, front bumper, both front fenders, and drivers side door repainted. total cost was 2,100. cant even tell what was repainted.
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My Firehawk was White (in case you couldn't figure it out). The fascia, hood, headlamp covers, and fenders were all slightly different shades. I think they were all painted offsite and then assembled, unlike OEM builds that paint everything together.
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Yeh well I will have to go back to the shop for a new estimate. I think I'm going to just have them repaint the hood, do the fenders and front bumper and blend everything. I gotta have them fix a fog light assembly too cause by the small accident. Anyways I would like to keep it around 2100 bucks.
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maybe its just me, but it seems that on every factory camaro the hood always seems to be darker or deeper than the front bumper, i always figured it had something to do with the bumper being plastic and the hood being steel....
I have had a 99 black V6 and my current 02 SOM Z28 and on both cars the hood always appears darker than the bumper..... anyone else notice this ?
I have had a 99 black V6 and my current 02 SOM Z28 and on both cars the hood always appears darker than the bumper..... anyone else notice this ?
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Well it could also be the difference in sunlight between the 2. I picked the hood up off a guy who had the car and the SS had 10k on it, and garaged much it's whole life. My car has 56k and garaged, but seen a lot of sunlight.