schwank

Working on a bit of funkyness for the track car. Save a couple pounds, gain some visual bling kinda thing. I took my set of bumpers from the parts car and sanded them down to bare metal.

Can I rattle can them with either clear acrylic enamel or the duplicolor clear high temp engine paint? Will it stick?

UncleMaz

Krylon clear coat will stick to metal. Dries really fast too.

Stien

I would love a bare metal car. Sweet idea!

V2Rocket

nh7cy

Haha, the Delorean is the first thing I thought of when I saw this

Calmchaos

porsche did this back in the day right?
thats where the silver arrows color came from?

schwank

Silver was the german racing color long before white. Think back to the early Auto Union and Benz cars. At some point they switched to white but I've always loved the silver.

I'm not doing the whole car but I had spare bumpers and wanted to do a bumper pad delete anyway. Figured I'd strip them and see how it looks. I need to figure out what to do for end caps... Don't really want to run the guards red end caps over the brushed bumper, but don't know if it would be too ghetto without them. I at least want the car to look complete

V2Rocket

You could find metallic silver paint made for plastic and give it a roughed up look

harrisonrick

...umm, the bumpers are aluminum....not sure if clear will stick or not.

schwank

But that also means they won't rust right? Screw it then, I'll leave them as is.

tifosiman

Think clear paint is much lighter than colored paint?

schwank

No, not that stupid. Net weight savings comes from deleted bumper pads.

Spidey944

use a self etching primer, should work great.

xsboost90

uh- aluminum oxidizes....looks real bad. I would self etch primer them and paint them red. Brushed bumpers would look ghetto.

Yabo

+10 on oxidizing.