[VS3800]

Wanting a BA bulge on my bonnet now that it has to be sprayed anyway

Does anyone know a capable place that would take it on?

[KITTEN]

Would it be a metal bonnet or a fibreglass one?

[VS3800]

KITTEN, on Sep 3 2008, 10:26 PM, said:

Would it be a metal bonnet or a fibreglass one?

Ive got a metal bonnet now, shaved badge holes and its in undercoat.

Not sure on fibreglass stuff

[dwaynE]

get yourself a second hand metal BA bonnet and have the outer skin grafted onto your metal VS bonnet...
its the only way to go, will look much neater...

any decent body shop would be keen to have a go at it... but it'll be hard to quote on... so be prepared to pay a lot of coin to have it done...

[Jason]

That Highway Smash Repairs place would be keen to have a crack I reckon. All the import fiends down south rate them and I've seen their work on a mate's Cefiro. All metal heavily flared guards. Good effort.

[kermitt]

iv seen the fibreglass bulges advertised, i spoke to a guy about getting it done on my old vs awhile ago now, the amount of work involved could caused it to become a little pricey as he explained to me it had to be fibreglassed in then smoothed out.

im sure most bodyworks will be willing to give it ago, but be sure to get a pretty firm quote

as said above Highway Smash repaires will be pretty reasonable, iv heard of people happy with there work...

[VS3800]

Yeah sweet, thanks guys, where abouts are this highway smash mob? Cant say ive heard of them before

[xlr8ta]

Down after Kingston on the way to Margate just before you come into Margate they are on the left hand side

[HYPER8]

I can definatley recommend to see Paul @ Wells Bodyworks in campbell street, they have some machine which makes it easy to do that sort of thing. I've seen about half a dozen VZ monaro bonnet conversions on VY/VZ bonnets they've done with using the outher skin and welding it to the original bonnet and they look factory, so an XR8 bonnet should be straight foward.

They did all the custom plastic welding on my ute and spray painting, came up really good. They also did the VZ monaro bonnet and (flares, warranty job) on thy old boys Coupe'4, looks great.

If you have any probs they're happy to help to. About a year after they did the work on mine a small bubble formed on the front bar and they re-sprayed it for me at no charge.

Cheers,

Trent.

This post has been edited by HYPER8: 04 September 2008 - 07:28 PM

[VS3800]

HYPER8, on Sep 4 2008, 07:16 PM, said:

I can definatley recommend to see Paul @ Wells Bodyworks in campbell street, they have some machine which makes it easy to do that sort of thing. I've seen about half a dozen VZ monaro bonnet conversions on VY/VZ bonnets they've done with using the outher skin and welding it to the original bonnet and they look factory, so an XR8 bonnet should be straight foward.

They did all the custom plastic welding on my ute and spray painting, came up really good. They also did the VZ monaro bonnet and (flares, warranty job) on thy old boys Coupe'4, looks great.

If you have any probs they're happy to help to. About a year after they did the work on mine a small bubble formed on the front bar and they re-sprayed it for me at no charge.

Cheers,

Trent.

Ah thanks mate, that sounds great, will go there and get a quote, cheers!

[KITTEN]

Keep in mind that if you get a fiberglass bonnet you should definitely fit bonnet pins - so if you dont like the look of bonnet pins, metal might be the way to go

[Conan]

you could try some nos for a bonnet bulge:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bRbd3-Myg0
:-o

[evilvl]

look on ebay mate iv been looking for scoops and seen some on there.Just had a quick look another one on there for $117.00

This post has been edited by evilvl: 11 September 2008 - 02:04 PM

[Fluffy Llama]

hurry up and do it! i want to see pix

[xtcracing]

Thats what i like to see, more Ford bits on Holdens....Touche'