Fiberglass Bumpers, Body Color or Gray?

[lucasdart]

I just purchased both front and rear fiberglass bumpers from AAR for my dart.  So the question now is, do I paint them to match body color (B-5 Blue) or a gray color? Or perhaps some other color suggestions? Probably not black though. The car is going to get painted again this spring, so we will paint the bumpers at the same time. Just looking for opinions or suggestion.

[6469mopar]

I LIKE BODY COLOR ,

[attachment deleted by admin]

[bOb shingler]

gray  maybe silver. 

[Prodart]

Body color for my .02 cents.

[west]

the can paint them to look like chrome. It looks real too.

[flyboy01]

There is a new type of paint on the market, its expensive, but it looks like chrome. Actually it looks like highly polished aluminum, its perfect for that sleeper look. its sold by Eastwood, called Liquid Chrome, Its actually a 3 part process. You start by making the part super smooth then painting the part gloss black, then you spray on the liquid chrome, and them you spray on a coat of clear urethane. Eastwood sellt the chrome/clear kit for $60, it should cover 1 or 2 bumpers. I am going to use it on an AAR front fiberglass bumper on my car.


"This is a ready-to-spray solution of hyper-fine powdered aluminum in acetone-alcohol. We have tested it to cover 1 square foot per 2 ounces of paint. Goes over black, silver, even red. NOTE: For large projects, always use a black base."

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=16573&itemType=PRODUCT
http://www.kustomrides.com/chromepaint.htm






 

[NYrr496]

A company called SNS chrome can paint them so you'd never know they were fiberglass.

[flyboy01]

SNS charges about $500-700 to paint them, the same paint can be bought for $60. If you are cheap, then do it yourself.

[drew54]

House of Kolor-kosmic krome, I'm giving it a try on a set of bumpers.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Drew

[lucasdart]

Thanks for the opinions, I was leaning toward body color, but the chrome/polished aluminum look is a new idea in the head. I would like to see some pics and see how it holds up before jumping into is though.

[flyboy01]

GO to this site and check out this BMW, it is painted with the stuff.

http://www.anvari.org/cols/BMW_M3_with_Full_Chrome_Paint.html

[west]

i've seen better reflections from a normal paint job,thats too much

[moparrr07]

a 5 lb bumper with 5 lbs of paint on it, just spray on some of the same body color

[Beau_Dart]

  With Flyboy. I like the fake Chrome paints, even a nice silver would look good. They have a couple different kinds of Chrome paint http://www.kustomrides.com/kustom/chrome-paints/  but i like the Mirra Chrome 

[flyboy01]

Definately gives you the sleeper look. 

[duster-dan]

steel rear bumper for a 71 demon weighs 17 lbs.

[DustBuster]

I painted mine to look like the aluminum bumpers drag cars would have.

[flyboy01]

I just weighed my rear bumper on my 68, 30lbs with brackets, 20lbs without brackets. If you figure that fiberglass bumpers with aluminum brackets weigh about 5-6lbs each, and assuming the front is the same as the rear, then you will save about 50 lbs on the whole, not bad. Also, if you spray 4 oz of paint on a bumper, then you are talking about 1/4 lb max, not 5 lbs.

[WARLORD]

House of Kolor-kosmic krome, I'm giving it a try on a set of bumpers.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Drew I PAINTED A MOTORCYCLE TANK FENDER AND OIL BAG WITH THIS AND IT TURNED OUT GREAT,ILL SEE IF I CAN FIND SOME PICS OF IT