kjr914

Does anyone have an old hood badge they'd like to off load? Any condition as long as its still got the mounting tabs since its going to get stripped down to bare metal.

As well, I'm hunting some plastic wheel center caps that have the black painted on crest. Any condition as well, as they will be painted.

Thanks in advance!
Keith

AOW162435

Uh-oh!


Andreas

firesm

Hey Keith,
I'm currently in the process of getting a set of MY'02 rims powder coated black. I wanted center caps that had the logo indented into the plastic so that when I painted them the logo would still be visible. The caps that came with the wheels just had the logo screened on. After searching on here and ebay for a few weeks, I found a set on ebay for $90, the same day I was ordering some parts from Jeff @ Sunset and I asked him how much they would be - $12 each! I almost dropped the phone. Thankfully I hadn't bid on the ebay ones yet. Anyway - getting to the point - if you want indented logo caps you know where to get them, if you don't care about that then pm me your address and you can have my old ones for free.

kjr914

Hey, that's MY idea! How did you find out?!?!
I had a link to what I thought was the Sunset online parts website, but going to their dealership page I can't find a link....maybe it was some other site....but I DID notice that. Relatively cheap Porsche parts...who would'a thought! Just seems a little wrong to take a perfectly good, NEW part and repaint it immediately, but that's probably what I'll have to do.

ah HA! I'm not going nuts...it was Suncoast (not Sunset!) Porsche with the online page....
http://www.suncoastparts.com/product...3TT_centercaps
(That said, Jeff at SunSET has been GREAT in the past, so I'll call him again!)


Are you going gloss or (mmmm) flat black on the MY02s? I really liked these:

psychoideas

How are you going to get the enamel out of it??

I tried a kiln

kjr914

Wir haben Methoden!


I've been assured by the RL master of creative Pcar part reuse (Andreas), that it is possible with proper, gentle application of bead blasting.

psychoideas

Aber arbeiten sie?


Sounds cool.

I was going to reproduce it in Carbon fibre. If you need the pins on it are you going to re colour it?

kjr914

Der Meister sagt, dass es so ist.

In this thread is one of Andreas' black hood badge versions and I was thinking it would look good on my silver hood.
https://rennlist.com/forums/993-foru...s-of-pics.html
There's a close up pic of another on a clock, but I can't find the link.

I'm usually a purist on my Pcars, so this is a stretch for me, but once I was thinking of going with the black wheels and saw this, I figured what the heck.

psychoideas

Looks good!

I might try the bead blaster on mine..

I'm sure it will look great on your car with black wheels. You going gloss or flat for the badge?

firesm

It did seem wrong at first to paint new caps, which is why I was trying to find used ones - but when new is cheaper then used I got over that feeling pretty fast.
Those caps at Suncoast are the same ones, but they were a couple of dollars cheaper, per cap, at Sunset.
I just received my Stage III's from Darin that have been black ceramic coated with matching tips, so I think I'm going to match the wheels to that finish. I didn't want them gloss but I didn't want them 100% flat either. I can't wait to get it done!

firesm

I also picked up a black hood badge that Mark D sold on here. It looks pretty cool IMHO. I believe it was one of these: http://pcars.com/porsche_parts/shop....it/p_3014.html
, it's a lot darker than in the photo. Originally, I was going to go the purist route and keep everyting stock, but then I thought as soon as you change one thing it's not really stock anymore - so you might as well do what you want

AOW162435

Two or three minutes, tops.


Andreas

kjr914

Still looking for a donor hood badge & center caps with the pressed in emblem (not the glued on colored badge). I'm willing to pay for them and the shipping if that helps.


I'm thinking flat black for wheels and hood badge. Kind of a "stealth fighter" look. Not 100% yet, however...

hmmm, kinda steep at $225 or so. Damn you people are good at making me want to spend money!!! Not dark enough looking, but you and the webpage both say it looks darker "in person" so it might get there. Do you have a picture of it on the car?

AOW162435

Br. Keith,
PM sent forth.


Andreas

Arena993

My Con Rod Fan clock has the same badge.

https://rennlist.com/forums/7342442-post1.html

Mike