Someone should make an underhood design with a Turbo Grand Prix emblem. To show you what I'm talking about, I attached a pic of what one looks like on a Bonneville.
Nick, I can whip up a few different designs no problem....but can anyone tell me how to transfer it to the insulator?
You would have to start with a clean, probly new, insulator. Then there would be 2 ways to put it on. My favorite is to use a peice of cardboard as a stencil, they spray paint it on. The other way is to have a Vinyl guy wip the stencil up, and attach it to the insulator. The Paint one is probly the cheapest. It could be done with spray paint, and still look good.
I would think that vinyl would melt. A stencil that could be painted would work out OK.
That's what I thought too...that a decal would melt or warp with the heat. Painting it on is fine, but making the stencil is gonna be nuts. What material should I use? Just standard cardboard?
Constuction paper from your local wal-mart school supply section would be my guess..
And you could always get Hi-Temp Vinyl. But I think you would probly still run into a warping issue.
Speaking of, I need a new hood insulator..
Speaking of underhood insulators, I called my GM dealership and they told me they checked for one, but they insulators for our hoods with the louvers and all gone...they suggested buying a regular non-louvered hood piece and trimming the holes out.
Did they say how much the insulators were?
There is like a paper thin plastic or thin cardboard that could be cut out, probably get it in the stationary at Staples.
After looking at that Bonneville, I need a new insulator and some paint underside of my hood, thats a nice job.
Why not remove the insulator all together and potentially paint the bottom of the hood????
Yeah, actually I was thinking of removing it all together and painting it, is the insulator just for sound or is it for heat also?
I already am running insulator-less...painting it would kinda look hacknied...since there are bends and creases on the underside, it'd look a bit off.
Quote from: grinders_18 on November 29, 2007, 03:54:18 AM
Speaking of underhood insulators, I called my GM dealership and they told me they checked for one, but they insulators for our hoods with the louvers and all gone...they suggested buying a regular non-louvered hood piece and trimming the holes out.
Thats what I did.
I like the insulators. I think it gives the underhood area a cleaner look.
The ones from Luminas z34 should work no?
I found someone that painted a under hood stencil, and did a write up on it...
Quote from: kyle99gtp on www.grandprixforums.comwell as many of you know i have a custom painted hoodliner
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this is really a very simple thing to do, it took me about 4 hours total.
take the hoodliner off, its held on by 3 approx 2in diameter pop in place fasteners. be careful removing them adn you can re use them.
first i started off by taking a picture of my gtp badge and separating the letters and blowing them up to be as big as they could to fit on a 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
then i taped them all together.
spray your hoodliner with flat black spreaypaint, DO NOT try to wash it, it will soak up the paint just fine and will go to black, if you wash it it will take days to dry out.
then, using the tape of you choice, tape down the GTP stencil (or stencil of your choice), all around all of the edges and taping off everything you dont want color on. i had a half can of vht red caliper paint left, this was enough for me.
i discovered that if you put the pain on thick, the headliner soaked it up and went back to black, so i put in on in very light coats, almost overspray, and it started to get darker.
let dry and youre done, place the hoodliner pins back into the holes and enjoy!
-kyle