Ok, I am in desperate need of some opinions and advice. I have already shaved all the emblems and antenna on my car...and then there is the rear bumper emblem.

I want to take this one off too, but how should i go about making it look like there is not supposed to be one there....if you look closely at the emblem, it is not straight on the top or bottom.

any opinions or advice, or pics by someone that has done something, would be awesome:hail: :hail:

 

by "shaving" you do mean filling in all areas where an emblem would go rather than just removing them right?

because if this is the case how could you need advice.

if i could do anything different i might had blended the gfx's to the body. but, if you get in an accident forget it.

 

I am just not going to remove them and call them shaved, i hate when people do that

I want to some how make the top and bottom line of the long groove continous. Or maybe fill in the whole indentation. I have no idea what would look good, or how to go about doing it.

and the car is supposed to be ready for paint in a week

 

i forget exactly how the rear of your car is suppose to look although the typical way to do it is to fill in the area if the "grove" shows any indentation.

on mine for example i didn't like how the bumper looked in the back filled in so i opted against shaving the emblems. the main reason was because the bumper conforms to the shape of the z28 meaning you would have to fill in the whole length of the bumper which was something i didn't want to do.

i've seen it done and it isn't necessarily bad; it's a personal choice one that i don't like on camaros but birds are a different story.

good luck with it.

 

Doing the side emblems are easy, just fill the hole. Put you allready know that, The emblem is just a sticker, there are no hols or anything when you take it off. Just the indent on the topb and bottom of the "stripe" abound the bumper. You could just use a small amount of bondo for the top and bottom indents, or fill the whole "stripe" .

 

will bondo hold and stay on the plastic bumper cover??

 

I'm not a master bondo expert, but I used bondo (or some type of car repair material) on the rear bumper of my '88 cutlas. If you prepair the bumber enought, It should hold???? but i'm not a master bondo expert, so dont take my word for it.

 

i'd use some sort of fiberglass resin that can be sanded down smooth, i'm not sure what bondo is made of but i'm sure it would be fine in moderate amounts.

the only reason bondo has such a bad name is because there are alot of people that would use it to cover literal holes in the body panels....eventual the stuff would fall apart due to no support.

don't be affraid of materials like that.........just know how and when to use them.

 

Do not use regular Bondo or fiberglass resin to fill in urethane bumpers. They will crack when the urethane bumper flexes even a little bit. Go to www.tapplastics.com and look for their flexible bondo. Forgot the exact name of it, but it looks and works exactly like Bondo but when it dries, it retains some elasticity and flexibility. I’ve used this stuff before and it will flex with the urethane bumpers.

 

What you need is a product designed specifically to fill bumper covers...not bondo, not fiberglass. Go to the Fusor website below:
http://www.fusor.com/products/pr_overview.asp


Their products are OEM approved, and they'll do exactly what you need. They also make some really cool panel bonding adhesive that allows you to install steel panels without welding.

 

that's the stuff i was trying to remember.........good stuff.

 

cool....thanks everone

i will order some this afternoon

 

Yep, they also wouldn't prep the area properly, either. The same thing happened with lead; lead got a bad name too because people didn't know how to work with it. Now if you use lead, you're "doing it right". Back when lead was the only thing around, you were doing a crappy job if you used lead.

Bondo got a worse name because instead of buying $70 worth of tools and lead and a torch, any regular idiot could drop $10 and get a big can of Bondo and some spreaders, and have at it. http://www.eastwoodcompany.com still sells leading kits, by the way. I'll probably use one this summer when I re-do my car.

Bondo makes a urethane bumper repair kit, it's a two-part solution, just like epoxy, but it's meant for pinholes.

What I'd do, if possible? Find a mangled junkyard bumper, and cut out a piece next to the emblem area- with the straight line you want. Then, cut the area out of your bumper to -exactly- put the junkyard section in. Back up the repair with fiberglass (using proper prep) to glue the piece in from the inside of the bumper. Then, use an appropriate "fill" for the outside edge.

Oh, and thanks for the link, LT1guy!

 

The Fusor stuff can do exactly what you're talking about. I'm planning to use it to modify an 85-90 TA bumper cover to have the twin scoops in it like a 98-up TA. I'll simply cut out the scoop sections from the late bumper cover, and graft them into the new one. i'l lreinforce the back with scrap urethane.It should result in a permanent modification that won't ever come loose. The RAII hood is going to be modified accordingly to mate up with it, more like the late 4th gen style. I feel like fiberglass would be too rigid for a flexible material like urethane. It would probably be ok as long as it didn't get hit or get too cold, but in either case it would likely come loose.

People do misunderstand lead...its a great product to smooth a dent that is already worked as much as it can be, or to fill an exposed seam (like say where a quarter panel meets the roof), but its not made to fill dents, just as bondo type products aren't. Nothing out of a can, whether lead or plastic, is a substitute for good bodywork.