pwdbychevy

I'm wrapping the whole car in satin black vinyl. Should I wrap the solar wing or no?

MeenZ28

I'd leave it the way it is. I've always wanted one of those BTW.

BADNBLK

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I say wrap it. Make it look like part of the body. When your paint was gloss black that "wing" really flowed well. I have never really liked them, but your car pulls it off. Worst case peel it off. As I type this... Plasti-dip the wing, then you only wastes few bucks worth of that stuff instead of a few yards of vinyl.

POST pics of the end result either way!

Lmancha96

I would just take the solar wing off lol

pwdbychevy

Yeah taking it off is not an option. I'm thinking I may wrap it. I can always peel it off if I dont like like. Any expert photoshoppers wanna work their magic? Here are a few more pics of wrap work in progress

pwdbychevy

Carbon fiber wrap on the hood

BADNBLK

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Man that is looking pretty good so far. You are a better man than I am. I might not have the patience to wrap every little piece.

2007xl50

I say remove the solar wing, but if you h
ave to keep it then wrape it.

iansane

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I'm with this guy. I'm not a fan of the solar wing but it'd look much nicer wrapped.

Mr. IROC-Z

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Damn...that looks nice! I am sure wrapping your car is not the easiest thing in the world! On that note, how long did it take you to wrap it? I don't think I would have the patience to deal with bubbles in the wrap or how to deal with rounded body parts (like the side view mirrors).
Awesome job thus far!

midnightfirews6

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Seconding plastidipping it. You can always wrap it after if you want and it would honestly probably take longer to photoshop than it would to spray it. Great wrap work btw!

I dig the solar wing Definitely not for every car, but 240SXes, Celica Supras and low 91-92 Camaros look great with them IMO (and I'd bet the 91-92 birds would pull it off well too).

BADNBLK

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That's what I'm saying!

aco2451

That looks really good, you could wrap the solar wing in the carbon fiber to kind of tie the front with the back.

couple of questions for you:

What type of vinyl are you using?
Where did you get it?
Whats the cost?

Abubaca

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I'm not a fan of matte/satin on "normal" cars. Not an old school shadetree drag racer, not a high dollar exotic. Just makes 'em look unfinished IMO. ...BUT....as someone who designs and installs wraps, it looks like you're doing a great job! It's not always as easy as it looks! I applaud you taking the time to disassemble and do it properly.

....as for the wing, I'd take it off, or wrap it. Don't leave it gloss. Maybe Carbon?

Coolwheels84

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Your car looks sick man. I'd go for carbon on the solar wing to match the hood. Maybe the decklid too...

pwdbychevy

This is my first time using vinyl wrap, I've tinted windows before so it's somewhat similar but thanks it is coming out better than expected

pwdbychevy

Im using 3m satin black vinyl that i bought on ebay. Its a 40ftx5ft roll for $360. That's more than enough to do this car. I have about 10-15ft left that's enough to do my corolla

pwdbychevy

The side view mirrors were pretty easy. Just hit it with some heat from the gun and wrap it around the contours. I started this project about 3 weeks ago and I'm almost done . It's taking me so long because I'm juggling time between the car and the family or else I would've been done on a weekend.

billybob6110

does this vinyl chip or tear real easy? im new to the vinyl and it looks good but wasnt sure how it held up

pwdbychevy

Here a Q&A link to 3M Scotchprint 1080 wrap which is what I used. It should answer alot of your questions. This stuff doesn't tear easily. You would really have to put some force behind it to tear. My understanding is with proper care this wrap will last for years in direct sunlight just like a regular paint job. I keep mine garaged so it should last for quite a while.

http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/mediawe...M&pNM&MMMMMM--

pwdbychevy

Check out the finished product. I'll wrap the solarwing later on.

MeenZ28

I've always wanted to ask you, what spoiler is that? Looks awesome on your car!

pwdbychevy

It's a Turbo II wing from American sports car design. I believe they stopped making it. I don't see it on their website

Coolwheels84

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Your car looks sick man. I love it

pwdbychevy

Would i do it again? Yes for MONEY!!

Fueled

What did you do on the aero chin? I noticed it looks different near the bottom in one of the pictures. CF maybe?

Goosehead

Looking good man!!! the front is one tough job!!! I couldnt get my front perfect i must say, i hope you did a better job then i did!

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...ng-84-z28.html

pwdbychevy

I used some leftover carbon fiber vinyl on the bottom of the chin spoiler to give it that air splitter effect

83HOZ

Curious, why satin? Is it supposed to be more installation-friendly than gloss? Or did you just want the appearance? It looks very nice.

Now for the bigger question, why wrap? Is it just to protect your paint, or are there some paint issues that can't be dealt with at this time... if you don't mind me asking?

I've been thinking about carbon fiber wrap on the hood. But I wouldn't have the patience, and such a project would very creatively broaden my vocabulary.

pwdbychevy

I like the satin black look and since I was in the market for a new paint job anyways I went ahead and decided to wrap it instead. Alot of people are doing it and since I did it myself I saved a whole crap load of money that i could use for horsepower applications

The front end was a challenge especially trying to do the headlight buckets in one solid piece

This is when I started the front

lameberlinetta

question, how was your exterior surface under the wrap? im thinking about doing this instead of paint and was wondering if i can just smooth out all my paint before doing so.

pwdbychevy

Most of the surface was fine but I smoothed out the front and rear bumpers the best I could. I recommend smoothing out the body because every little detail willl show on the wrap. I claybarred the entire car to get all the impurities off the paint then went over with wax and grease remover for best adhesion of the vinyl.

Rossman89

maaaaaan now that is awesome! love the look of that!

onthedownlow

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Nice work man. If you have to keep the solar wing I say wrap it.

My86'stitsRout

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I totally agree, tie it in to even out the carbon fiber tone of the hood,
Absolutely A-1 job by the way.

pwdbychevy

I ordered some more carbon fiber wrap to do the solarwing. Thanks for the input and the compliments yall

Rossman89

how much time and money did this take? i read that you claybarred the whole thing, thats some tedious work but man the payoff was huge! i love it!!

pwdbychevy

Thanks! You gotta have alot of patience doing something like this. It cost me about $450 for a 40x5ft roll of satin and 6x5ft roll of carbon fiber on ebay. It took me about 3 weeks to do it. I took my time since this is not my daily driver. I could've finished it on a weekend but wanted to remove the ground effects and front/rear bumpers.

mcrouch2000

like the look of this. thinking about doing my 89 TA similar.

Richboll

It looks really good. How about some periodic updates to let us know how it's holding up?

white1991rs

might as well do the wing too

pwdbychevy

Everything is holding up just fine. As a matter of fact I drove the car in good ol' fashion Florida style torrential downpour and everything is good to go. I did wrap the solar wing and I'm glad i did. Came out pretty good. I rewrapped the hood because I applied too much heat in one section trying to get the wrinkles out and it left these hideous stretch marks. Here's what the hood looks like now.


And the solarwing

BADNBLK

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The hood looks great man!

MeenZ28

I love it! Great job!

cIaRmOaCrZo

should have done the whole car in carbon wrap. been interesting to see

Zach/90\irocZ

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Look good kinda reminds of Mad Max
which is pretty wickef

pwdbychevy

Thanks yall! I'm glad I went this route instead of paint

mcrouch2000

have some guys working on my 89 TA and they want to wrap it in 3d carbon. not sure if we are going with matte or gloss or combo of both. Can use any color. Car is Flame Red, but i am thinking black. Can't find any red 3d carbon cars online. Did find a blue one and it looked pretty good, but black would probably be best

mcrouch2000

check out this thing. One reason i was thinking of black. 1100whp. crazy
http://forum.exotics4life.com/showth...lculator-watch

Pontiac_Pete

Ok here is a question, did you wrap the door jambs too? If so, you took it all the way under the plastics I am guessing? I have never seen a whole car wrapped in vinyl, I have seen wrapped hood when I used to do upholstery. Nice work.