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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by willwren
We didn't repaint John'* whole hood. Just masked near the edge of the cuts, and then repainted that (doesn't even have to match)".
the vents were prolly painted before they were installed
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 05:43 PM
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John'* vents were pre-painted off the car. The cut locations were lightly feathered back within the area the vents would cover, then this:

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You can see here the white doesn't match, but it doesn't have to. It could have been any color. We saved the OEM paint for the vents:

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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 06:00 PM
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Looks good bill.
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 06:12 PM
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Sorry...my bad. Did you mask off the hood before cutting. That way no metal could scratch and hurt the current paint?
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Old Feb 16, 2006 | 06:40 PM
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Nope. Don't need to. We blew off the dust cleanly.
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