Another weekend at the good ole mom and pop workshop, another weekend of progress. Got ambitious and tried to tackle some things by myself that I either had no experience with or just really should have waited for a second set of hands. Started off with a valiant attempt at vinyl wrapping my roof. After my dad and I learned doing a wrap outside in the sun keeps the whole sheet hot, I thought I could tackle this one myself, which ended miserably after a large gust of wind midway through decided the car looked better with a white top.
However, the failures stop there (just for a bit). I switched out the headlights with some HID mustang style lights. Working on figuring out a proper ballast/canbus/decoder setup so that they actually fully function on auto lights rather than just manually, and so that they don’t give the turn signal out warning.
Replaced the top grill with a carbon fiber slatted one. Also took out the lower grill in advance for when I put in my matching bottom that was delayed in shipping :/ Then I fixed the paint job I was left with on the bottom of the bumper and painted the Ford badge to match the rear.
That unfortunate atrocity on the floor was my attempt at fiberglassing my own custom splitter. Turns out the resin I had dissolves insulation board. I salvaged half of it, and plan to 3D model and 3D print a prototype, but I’ll make a thread for that if people are interested. Lastly for this weekend, I put on a Ford Edge Sport engine cover and painted the sport lettering to match the Ford badges. I would not recommend it for the faint of heart, I had to cut the absolute hell out of it and make my own mounts to make it fit. I personally think it looks incredible so it was definitely worth it in my mind.
As a wrap up of the weekend, here are some before and after pics: