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Dec 31, 2008 | 09:28 AM

#21

97FXSTSB

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Originally Posted by Marblemania

Makes sense to me. Make yourself invisible to the cages and improve your ability to get run over.

I must be really invisible to you since my lenses are smoked. If a little black paint makes you invisible, someone needs to open their eyeballs.

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Dec 31, 2008 | 10:18 AM

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kylant

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Originally Posted by Marblemania

Makes sense to me. Make yourself invisible to the cages and improve your ability to get run over.

really? did you really write that???

Dec 31, 2008 | 11:05 AM

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Lundee

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Buy a can of VHT night shade and give your lenses covers a quick dusting. Looks like smoked lenses but it like 6 buck a can. Looks good by the way.

Dec 31, 2008 | 11:59 AM

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krichard

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Originally Posted by jameymiller00

just gloss black spray paint and then put 4 coats of clear on it. it took one night of painting. the only bad thing is i had to cut the wires to get the lights off the fender

What did you do to prep them before painting?

Dec 31, 2008 | 12:06 PM

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monster fxstc

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Looks sharp man.

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Originally Posted by Marblemania

Makes sense to me. Make yourself invisible to the cages and improve your ability to get run over.

You actually bother to look at the pictures or just decide to wing it and pull sht out of your ***?

Dec 31, 2008 | 03:08 PM

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kylant

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What did you do to prep them before painting?

good question.

did you sand and primer at all? i have always sanded and primed the chrome coated parts. looks good. i have be meaning to do this for some time.

i also keep debating about getting some heartland lights

Dec 31, 2008 | 04:33 PM

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jameymiller00

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The prep was easy. All I did was take 2000 grit sand paper and just went over the whole thing. It just scuffs up the pair enough to make the paint stick. No primer. I did about 5 coats of black and then clear. I took the lens off and just taped up the light part. It was easy. The hardest part was getting the lens off. Be careful and don't break one of the 3 tabs off.