slavik

haha... on every forum that i am allowed to use my avatar...it always gets attention....

mchapparone

They sure do....I'm loving mine so far.

Here's a quick teaser of the wheels...they will look a lot different than how you see them here in the picture. They will be painted sometime in the next couple weeks.

slavik

what wheels are those? iforged?

mchapparone

Iforged Senekas, yes...


Here is the grille that we painted Matte Black today. It is Mercedes 040 base coat and a Spies Hecker Semi-Gloss clear coat.

I took the grille apart to make sure both pieces were fully painted, and to prevent any chipping or peeling whatsoever.

mchapparone

Matte Black Grille is in...looks SO much better/meaner IMO.

enjoy..









more mods in a couple weeks...I'll be in Vegas for SEMA next week! Anyone here going?

slavik

grille looks awesome... car is coming along great... when is the window tint?

James@ACG

When he gets the time to drop it off at our shop

You wanna get that ELM in before we leave for SEMA?

mchapparone

Haha that's exactly when I'll be getting the tint done.

James,

Once the wheels are ready to go on the car is when I think we should do the ELM (and the tint)...that way I can have both on when I go for my alignment.

I can't wait, couple more weeks and I can REALLY be happy with this beast.

HAHA BYE

looks great man. I like they way you did your taillights. Its opposite of the way people usually do it and yours doesn't sacrifice any taillight light. I love the color of your car though, its a great color to accent with carbon fiber.

mchapparone

Thanks man...I'm really happy with the way they turned out.

mchapparone

Okay...I was out of town last week at SEMA and an autobody convention called NACE. But, while I was gone the work continued on my car. They didn't get to the wheels but we shot the roof, replaced the roof rails with factory black 040 ones, vent grille, and did the flat hood emblem custom (matte black star and center)

Here are a few pictures to show the new work, more progress to come..



Black roof and roof rails (pano look without the extra 200 lbs!)


Vent grille in matte black (to go with the rest of my look)


Matte black centered flat hood badge...turned out perfect


The old with the new, both with black painted roofs (the car is being picked up by its new owner this afternoon)

evilb

Did they have to do any special prep work to paint over the chrome on your front grille? I've heard of lots of people having problems with the grille easily chipping because of the chrome, to the point where some people wrap them in ventureshield/clear vinyl to protect it.

The work you've done so far looks great!
Brad

mchapparone

Okay...so the wheels took some time and we waited an extra week for the paint to cure and harden up a bit more but this is the result. I also had the windows tinted (20% all the way around).

We painted the wheels a matte black (with semi-gloss clear) center and did the dish a matte flint grey (Spies Hecker Flint Grey base coat with Spies semo-gloss clear as well). I figured I would mix it up a bit as I mostly see guys do all black on the wheels.

I'll be doing a photoshoot with the car in the next couple weeks so you guys can see some real pics...next mod will most likely be matte black badges/emblems

enjoy...

mchapparone

And here are a few more...real photoshoot to take place in the next few weeks.

The Godfather

damn that looks badass!

drop997stop

I like the look of your wheels, very aggresive

mprsev

I dig the color matched wheels! Nicely done!

slavik

looks awesome...black roof FTW!!!

mchapparone

Thank you very much!

Thank you! I was a bit skeptical going into the project but I am VERY HAPPY with the results.

Thanks man...when people look at it and think it is glass I know it turned out right haha.

EdoubleNickel

Would you consider painting calipers YelloW? BTW SWEET!!

RonnieRenaldi

How much to have the stock grille painted matte black?

Is the chrome really stripped off before painting?

bobgodd

Beautiful car, hopefully you'll have it there tomorrow. Ever thought about getting your headlights did in body color?

AMGfan

Great progress! Keep the pictures coming!!!!!!

mchapparone

Thanks..I'm sure it would look good but it's not something I'd consider at the moment.

Ronnie PM sent...we didn't strip the chrome, just prepped it properly. But I haven't had ANY chipping issues with my grille so far...Jangy, psuball, and bobgodd can attest to that after seeing my car today.

Thanks man...next batch of pictures will be a professional photoshoot...my photography is garbage and I shouldn't even be posting pictures that I took because it takes away from the car haha!!