Greets!

I am going to be repainting my '92 RS soon. It's got the Z03 option, so I'll be doing the stripes. I want tp paint them on, even though it isn't 'correct'. Reason being, my car is the Dk polo green w/ gold stripes, and the metallic vinyl just doesn't last like paint does, they seem to loose their 'pop' rather quickly compared to paint. Going with the Dupont ful-poxy primer, chroma-base basecoat, and Dupont clear. I want the stripes to look correct, even if they are technically supposed to be vinyl...

Anyone know where I can get stencils? The vinyls are all over the web, but I can't seem to find stencils anywhere.

TIA!

 

I'm in the same market, but I've got the Daytona-style hood so mine will require more contour-matching. If you just have the stock RS hood then you should be able to accomplish the results you want with some creative masking. I keep wanting to drop mine off at the aircraft paint barn on-base to see what happens.

Or, just paint the car whatever color you want the stripes to be, then apply the vinyl decals, paint the car the color you want the rest of the car to be, remove the vinyl decals, then wetsand and clear coat.

 

That's a great idea... never really considered using the vinyl to do a reverse mask. I wish I could get the pattern, I'd see if I could get a local shop to cut it out of cheaper stuff, since I'd just be peeling it off anyway!

 

I prefer to call it "inverted linear paint application & transposition," but "reverse mask" works as well.

Not much of a pattern; it's all lines.

 

True... but on the hood, they are lines that - OMG.... CURVE!!! Nooooo! They must be as perfect as I can get them, and they.... curve.

Damnable curves!

 

so you would buy a $200 stripe kit as masking tape than peel it off and throw it away?

 

Considering it would cost at least $4500 to have my car blocked and painted by someone else, or that the primer, base, and clear I have elected to go with is costing me $800 or so, or that the only actual stencil kit I have found is over $200, I figure $200 to mask the stripes so I can make sure they are correct is small potatoes in the big picture. But no, actually. I can get the stripes in low quality vinyl for $60.

Of course, there is always the Rustoleum $50 job I guess, then I can slap down the stripes with a roller.

 

LOL thats the rout i would go with!
than agin my car is a $500 v6 crapbox

 

Ha! Yeah I've had cars like that... had an '83 Chrysler 'K' car back in 93 that was a real beater.... A buddy of mine painted houses, offered to paint it for free - in stucco. I had the only red stucco K car in Minneapolis. LOL.

But, the two gen 3's I haave now are labors of love. My wife Z gets the mod treatment... I've dumped over $4K into it since January (most went for the new motor). Mine I've only had for a bit over a month now, and it's getting the factory resto treatment. Although I may pickle the motor and drop my wife's old TPI in there for giggles, make it a sleeper RS but keep everything else original. Who knows!

Right now, focus on mine is getting the paint back up to par though.

 

im not gonna go that far lmao i did spray bomb my car satin black tho i thought about taping off stripes and just shooting em real quick.....this car has nothing i realy want im only holding onto it because its got a black interior thats in amazing shape....i realy want a T-top 5 speed V8 car