therealcreeper

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so this is what my sail panel looked like 2 years ago, since then I've sanded/bondo'd/spray painted it navy blue twice, but spray paint never comes out glossy or matches right so it never looked very good, and the bubbles came back within a few weeks of each painting



so I chopped this off of a car being parted out, and spent about 8 hours removing it from the roof itself. I broke it into 2 pieces so on the right you can see where I fiberglasssed (technically SMC) it



I painted it with "plasti dip"



here's the "point of no return" shot



I'd really like to ship this to GM



here it is drying, I shaved off some of the glue and reattached it as per the service bulletin



and I polished these guys up quick while they were off, the before picture didn't save for some reason but they were really scratched up and faded. there's still some scratches but oh well



here's a semi-finished shot, still have to attach the triangle pieces



the car simply looked too crappy with the messed up sail panel and rock chipped flat hood so I did the sail panel like this and also the ws6 hood I'm repairing with the plasti dip also. I'm going to respray them both matte black again and take my time so they look more decent. the roof is off a 99' so it will bubble eventually and I didn't spend much time on the body work knowing that I'll be replacing it again someday but I can't justify the cost of a $600 6le sail panel, and $2000 to paint the hood and roof, when it's a 120k mile daily driver that I have to park next to people like this every single day for school:



I think it might look better with the hatch tinted, heres a few pictures of another members car with similar color combo:






anyway, for $16 in urethane and $4 in paint I think it was worth the time since I was stuck home anyway
thanks for looking!

whytryz28

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Nice parking haha, looks good tho.

rbaksi

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Wow that's a great job. It looks really great and will probably last a couple years. Nice.

Conrad

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LOL you really tore the old one up

davidws6

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I'm getting ready to do the same thing. I saved a Sail Panel from a smashed 00 camaro I had. It was not bubbling yet but you can see where the glue was through the paint.

I cut the whole thing like you and chopped off the metal yesterday in about an hour.
Then this morning I ripped off all the old glue.
I'm going to take all the old glue residue off and Epoxy primer it. I'll leave it in the sun to make sure it does not bubble for a couple weeks.
Then if all is good, I'll rip the big time bubbly off my Turd and slap this one on after I repaint it the same color as the car.

A new one is still available from certain web sites but cheapest I found was $ 870 ! ! !

F that, it this will work, which I think if I remove ALL the old glue, Epoxy prime it, should be good to go ..

therealcreeper

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I removed all of the old glue from the bottom of the panel and then shaved what was on the car so no old glue is touching, I think it'll slow down the process enough until I find a nice 93-97 car being parted out to steal one off of

6LE sells them now, right now they're about $550 shipped I think. it's good that someone is producing them but I can't afford that so I'll live with this for now.

AwsmGy

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Wow, your original is probably one of the worst sail panels I've seen.

one fast zo6

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good work.

sjsingle1

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how do you get those black triangle pieces off? cant figure it out for the life of me

therealcreeper

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you just pry them off carefully, theyre glued on. I know they used to be like $8 from gm so dont worry if you mess them up

puddingmmmmmmmm

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That looks really good

ZexGX

iTrader: (28)

Nice work, for ~$20. These will be going in the Plasti-Dip thread...

20SOM01

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Mike454SS

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The only other thing I'd have done differently is some plastic wrap from the kitchen over the rear quarters below the sail panel to give you less to worry about when working...but either way...that looks nice.

DietCoke

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Why are the 93-97 panels better then the later ones

ZexGX

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The glue they used for 93-97 doesn't eat through the fiberglass which causes the bubbling and oozing.

Mike454SS

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I actually think the 98's were ok too...I've only seen the bubbling on 99-2002 cars. My 2000 wasn't TOO bad...but my buddies black 99 TA is brutal...the cars that live out of the sun in garages are definitely less plagued as well.

ZexGX

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The glue change happened in the factory in late 97 to early 98, I think. My car was built in late '98 (it's a '99) and it has the problem.

phantomzer0

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I mean nice job and all but I don't understand why you used plasti dip on this part of your car. I get the allure of it and all, but if you went through the headache of removing your bad one, which was jacked from *spray paint*, and then removing another and even repaired it, why would you not get it painted and be done with it for good. As soon as there is one spot that goes bad the whole thing is shot and then you are back to the spray paint route. You could have had it color matched NBM for 80$ or less, installed it, then plasti dipped it so at the very minimum once that plasti comes off you aren't up a creek.

Props for taking matters into your own hands, but your finished product leaves me very confused.

6SIX6

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WOW man amazing job for sure. I would have given up about halfway thru for sure as I have no patience for body work at all