My First Shave!

[Al]

so i finally decided to post up some pics of my bumper shaving and molding, so any comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated. i used a platic filler for the rubstrips and i am looking into a more flexible plastic type material to mold the valence to the bumper. these pics are of the rear bumper, i havent started the front yet... also was wondering if anyone has some ideas about filling in the lower vents on the front bumper...maybe fill the 2 outer ones and leave the middle...i am not sure...toying with lots of ideas rite now. so any imput is greatly appreciated! thanx guys. this is a link to my inspiration to do this the gti matador bora.. http://www.borabase.hostrocket.com/G...0Wolfsburg.htm very clean indeed! sorry for the pic size i am the worst with pic sizing hence the reason i do not post any pics. if someone can resize and post for me i can remove thse huge ones lol

[Simon]

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thats awesome work al, how many man hours into that rear bumper so far?

[Al]

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probably about 3-4 or so...not that much believe it or not. thats including drying time to sand etc. so its not that bad

[Holksvagon]

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Looks good Al.... not my cup o tea but it will look sharp once your done... Good luck on figuring the front.... For the front I would say some screening with some support in behind it to hold the filler in place....

[Aleks]

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That looks great so far! You gonna put them on the car, or is this just boredom?

[Simon]

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That looks great so far! You gonna put them on the car, or is this just boredom?

well he's driving around with no rear bumper, so I'll assume this is goin on the car when its done :P

[Al]

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no this is definately goin on the car...no rear valence on my car now it looks ghetto...cant wait for them to be done!

[Volinder D]

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I'm totally into the whole smooth look also. I did alot of research into shaving my GTI back about year ago. I was told, and I saw alot of articles on the vortex about how it was done. Guys on the vortex, as well as my body shop guy didn't recommend using plastic filler. They said it will inevitably crack/break/chip easily etc... They said the proper way was to fuse plastic strips on the bumpers, and weld metal strips for the body panels. I have no experience in the situation, i was deterred after seeing how much work was going to be needed. Good luck with the project, you'll probably be Calgary's first shaved MKIV!!!


Volinder

[Al]

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switched from my plastic filler to a urethane flex filler...

[Kor]

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...didn't recommend using plastic filler. They said it will inevitably crack/break/chip easily etc... They said the proper way was to fuse plastic strips on the bumpers.

This is what I found out as well, but it is much more difficult... I am trying to figure out how much its going to cost me if I want to go this route.

[Al]

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ordered urethane flex filler yesterday should be here next week....i ordered 2 gallons so i will have alot (about 1 gallon) left over if someone wants to give this a go i will be selling the left over filler for a decent price...

[seanfournier]

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ordered urethane flex filler yesterday should be here next week....i ordered 2 gallons so i will have alot (about 1 gallon) left over if someone wants to give this a go i will be selling the left over filler for a decent price...

mine. i'll do it.

[Al]

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ok done i will let u know when i am done with it and let u know a decent price