i have a 2000 BGC trans am im thinking of painting mirrors, sail panel and the back bumper do you guys think it would look good on this color and my sail panels have those little bubbles in it will i have to sand it completely down to metal to make sure this doesn't happen again ? also how do you take off the sail panel ?

 

First off the sail Isn't metal. If your getting bubbles you've gotta toss it and order a new one because the glue has damaged it and can't be saved. The panel is glued down so I've always just used piano cord and two pairs of visegrips. Get a friend for help on this. You have to open the hatch up and both of you lock down on each sides of the cord with the visegrips. Next get under the lip of the sailpanel from the side and start pulling back and forth like a saw. This will cut the glue and just work your selves up and across until all the glue is cut. Other way is a good old panel cutter with a flat chisel and break it apart, but you have to have skill and be very careful. Good Luck

 

thnks were can i get a new panel from and are they pricey ?

 

A dealership or an online GM parts supplier. It will run you about $420, so yeah not too cheap.

 

damn i was thinking it was going to be around 100 maybe ill wait on this mod a just paint the mirrors and bumper lol so there is no way to fix the bubbles at all ?

 

you can try wet sanding them down with some 400 grit, prime then spray your black, but I know for a fact the bubbles will show back up.

 

how long do you think it will last ? what if it grind them out a bit and fill it with bondo of a plastic filler then paint over it ?

 

Well the sun is what makes the glue push the bubbles out and even can "Bleed". The glue is effecting the panel, so if you grind it I can't see the filler even sticking. I think I would just hold off until you could replace it, otherwise your just throwing money down the drain.

 

To answer your question about if you should the CETA mod. I would say yeah, try it, it would be kind of hard to pull off on your color. Never seen it but I can picture it with flat black wheels looking pretty sweet. Tim.

 

i was think about geting the ceta wheels to but i want wider tred so i was thinking of going with the black zr1 11" painting the the trans am letter black ,mirrors, and sail panel, and the back bumper the maybe puting the feather deacal on the side but im not sure about that yet doea any 1 have photo shop that could maybe edit my pic with these things so i can see what it would look like ?

 

Here is pics of mine in red:

http://www.nicksolaphotography.com/i.../aid-ws6-3.jpg

http://www.nicksolaphotography.com/i.../aid-ws6-2.jpg

http://www.nicksolaphotography.com/i.../aid-ws6-1.jpg

Hope this kinda helps.

 

looks good sucks that i have to get a new 400 dollar sail panel first befor i can do this to my car did you do it your self or had a shop do it ?

 

I hear ya,,im one of the lucky bleeders,,sux ***. There is a huge dedicated sticky about freakin 600 posts long,,,,,,,be sure you have some coffee and and smokes when reading that thread.

 

yeah i saw that i stop reading it about 3 pages in lol

 

I did ceta in black and I think you could pull it off with your color as well. Everyone has zr1s and c5 z06s go with something different in black like a c6 or the ceta wheels or powdercoat the ws6 wheels or even roh drift R is nice look around and you'll make the right decision

 

for the back panel, you could also think about doing it in gumetal. i have seen it done on a few darker cars and it looks great. u could still do the roof and mirrors in black if u wanted

 

i wanted the zr1 cuz there 11'' in the back i was thinking about maybe just painting the 16'' trans am rims black and put them on the front and puting the 17 11'' on the back

 

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