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Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:21 PM
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lol ok ive just argued with a guy from 3sx for the past 20 min....kk heres the deal, I bought an accent lip from them...and its not fitting snugly at the end like it should...it sticks out like 1/2 inch...the dude keeps on telling me to molt it on there...and me and guy from the body shop say that you cant heat fiberglass and get it to bend like plastic???

What is your take on this???
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:38 PM
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You can heat plexiglass and bend it but not fiberglass. How do you think they make the fronts for boxes?
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:48 PM
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crap typing error...i meant fiberglass...lol sorry bout that


 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:51 PM
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LOL well then no you can't heat and bend fiberglass. Thee resin hardens and that is it.
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 10:56 PM
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you can mold fiber glass to the body of the car but I think you have to use Bondo or something like that... NESpeed should know he has molded sideskirts on a car before and bondod his old GSX a little bit.
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 11:03 PM
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you can mold fiber glass to the body of the car but I think you have to use Bondo or something like that... NESpeed should know he has molded sideskirts on a car before and bondod his old GSX a little bit.
yea we talked about that...but a nice vibration will crack it somethin awful...lol i dont want it to look good now and then crack and look like crap in 6 months....
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 11:24 PM
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you can mold fiber glass to the body of the car but I think you have to use Bondo or something like that... NESpeed should know he has molded sideskirts on a car before and bondod his old GSX a little bit.
yea we talked about that...but a nice vibration will crack it somethin awful...lol i dont want it to look good now and then crack and look like crap in 6 months....

Thats why you go to boatersworld.com and buy some mas epoxy and some microfiber filler and use that... or you can just get some kittyhair epoxy filler which is cheaper... either way both of those will out last the bumper and lip.
 
Old Mar 16, 2006 | 11:56 PM
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It's not so much the material that crack's as the placement and amount that causes it to crack. Put Bondo in a high stress area and expect it not to crack? Then don't drive the car LOL. But patch over a hole or a dent and it'll outlast the car itself.
 
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