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Wrong Coloured Nosecone.


alanrichey

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Rather embarrassingly I have trashed my Superspec's nosecone (long story). I have a spare, but unfortunately it is yellow while the rest of the car is blue. As I see it I have 7 options:

 

1. Just use it and accept I have a multi-coloured car.

 

2. Replace the wings as well and have an all-yellow car. (I have a complete yellow set in the attic.

 

3. Spray paint it myself to the correct eclipse blue. I reckon £30 for the spray paint cans, but not sure how it will look.

 

4. Get it professionally sprayed to the correct colour. No idea how that much would cost ?

 

5. Vinyl wrap it myself. I probably won't be able to match the colour, but a dark blue or black would look a lot better. Again looks like about £30.

 

6. Get it professionally wrapped. No idea how that much would cost ?

 

7. Try and source a blue nosecone. Although I am thinking the Superspec one is not the same as the standard 2B nosecone.

 

Any thoughts/recommendations ? Anyone know the rough costs of 4 & 6 ?

 

Al

 

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I looked at getting mine wrapped due to the ultra-thin gelcoat with the black showing through, I took it along to a place that does it, he took one look at the press stud fixing for the hood and said "no-way of getting it right around those" so unless you can easily remove them (if you have them) then it might be a spray job.

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Try and spray it yourself, like in previous comments, with some good prep it should look fine. Id did my rear and front wings myself and was amazed at how they came out. I found a good few coats of lacquer and a good cut and polish afterwards was where the magic really happened. Dont think youre far from me, dont mind assisting if you would like.

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I sprayed my entire car as it was mild steel. You will need an etch primer to create a key. Mine has been on 7 years and although ive had a few problems with the top coat doing weird things if wet plastic touches it and the sun hits it (goes white and will take the pattern of the plastic where it touches???) it's otherwise stuck without a problem and shown no signs of peeling off the grp.

 

That is celly though which you can only use on agricultural vehicles now so it's lucky if you happen to have a matching blue tractor. Water based is the current way but that from what i've heard is a bit more fiddly as you have to force dry it.

 

Many light coats, flat down between, get to final coat and either get a fly to land in it or scrape it with the bottom of the gun, flat that out and try again.

 

Leave it a week if you don't have an oven and then cut it with a polishing compound and wax it up. Nose cone is small enough to do by hand. If you are lucky you can get a pretty good finish from the gun and won't have to do a lot of polishing.

 

You'll need to be up around 20degrees though i reckon to stand a chance.

 

good luck :)

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Go yellow the blue makes you invisible in a convoy? Ask RichyB about wrapping, I've tried and the concensus is pay someone to do it. I think the nose is the same as a 2B but get confirmation, if it is GBSC can make you one.

 

After dicking about with some Ebay vinyl, most of which went in the the bin, I managed to cover two front mudguards and little else. My recommendation, leave it to the experts.

 

I had my 4 arches and nosecone covered in 3M vinyl, supplied and fitted for £180 at Positive Design in Tamworth. The panels were off the car, I dropped them off and picked them up a few days later.

 

I'm not sure how well blue wrap would cover yellow grp - the yellow might read through. Even though my wrapping was orange on orange, I'd had to do some paint repairs first and the primer patches showed through on the Ebay vinyl so I actually primed all the panels so they had a common substrate.

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