Best part of this is that I didnt even have to do any sanding!
My dad owns his own painting company so he busts out a can called XAM which is a clear primer designed for painting glass and plastics and sprays it down. Next he went ahead and sprayed them for me with the Testors can since he's the painting pro. I taped off the individual black borders so the light sections will be seperated but all candied with the exception of the reverse light of course. So far they look great!

 

Sounds cool. Put up some pics when they're finished drying. I will probably be doing mine soon also.

 

what does "candied" mean?

 

basically its a transparent candy apple red color that resembles the factory red brake lights. mainly used to spray over the yellow portion of the tail lights and make them all red such as the '03 chevy tail lights.

 

we need pictures.

 

I just did mine this weekend. They look awesome, and I'm no painter. Pretty damn easy to do. The results are subtle, but effective.


Go to this thread, all the anwers lie within:

https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=166246

 

DUMB q Comin'

I have read and I have everything I need to do it but I am not sure - heres the dumb Q - are you all scuffing up the reverse light (even though your masking prior to painting the candy) so that when you clear the whole thing, the clear will adhere to the back up light?


Not sure what would promote adhesion of clear on the back up light without scuffing it lightly before clearing but thought that would make it look cloudy since there is no color going on it.

So do I scuff the entire light, back up included and then mask it, paint and then remove mask for the clear coats? Or mask it off, scuff the rest without scuffing reverse light, and then remove masking for the clear coats?

TIA.

 

i'd tape off whatever you dont want painted, and sand whatever is left over, no point in sanding something that is not receiving paint

 

Agreed, but the whole light is getting cleared after, back up included....atleast that is what I found recommended in my readings here. Everyone seemed to recommend clearing the whole light afterwards for uniformity. It seemed anyway. Sounded like scuff, mask off back up, paint, dry wetsand, repeat and then remove masking from back up and clear, dry, wetsand, clear, dry, wetsand then polish.

Wondering if they just cleared over smooth plastic or scuffed it or what.

 

as long as you use 1000 grit sandpaper and don't really dig into it (you won't have to) it'll be fine. sand the entire light, tape off what you don't want painted, paint, remove tape, clear the whole light.