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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:10 PM
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Did this last night. Took about 4 hours to finish. Stripped it, primed it, then sprayed the wrinkle paint. I used the Krylon wrinkle and I was surprised with how well it came out to look like the OEM wrinkle.

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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:14 PM
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Very nice I want to paint mine so bad
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:18 PM
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Originally Posted by kylemonster85,Feb 28 2009, 04:14 PM
Very nice I want to paint mine so bad
I kept putting it off, finally said screw it.

The stripping and priming was pretty easy... The tricky part is the wrinkle. The final coat has to be pretty thick in order for it to wrinkle well, and this stuff runs very easily.
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:21 PM
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That really does look nice. I like the texture.
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:35 PM
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Super sexy, want to do mine as well, with gold s.p.c. of coarse ala ASM, along with black wrinkle i.m. (no itb's here)
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:41 PM
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wow....nice job
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Antonov,Feb 28 2009, 04:35 PM
Super sexy, want to do mine as well, with gold s.p.c. of coarse ala ASM, along with black wrinkle i.m. (no itb's here)
Yeah, the black wrinkle definitely looks the best with the AP2(gold) spark plug cover.
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 12:50 PM
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I like it.
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 01:04 PM
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i was about to do this as well... i always re think it because i like the red and black under the hood as well
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Old Feb 28, 2009 | 02:15 PM
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yo... that looks great
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