shanec

Just posted this on Cervini's forum as well....


A body shop is painting my Cervini hood right now. He called and warned me about bubble problems in the fiberglass. I'm not real familiar with what he's talking about and I've not seen it.

He said his paint guy is very very carefully looking at the painted surface and fixing the tiny bubbles in the fiberglass. Said he's fixed a few of them but couldn't guarantee more wouldn't come up later.

What's going on here?

pascal

It's most likely a flaw in the gelcoat...
It trapped too much air when being applied.
Some cheap hoods that have minimal gelcoat will do that every time.
The fiberglass resin is always porous somewhat, so the lack of not enough gelcoat will bring out all the imperfections.

I'm surprise to hear this about Cervini...
Never had a problem with their hoods.

Good luck with it.

shanec

Answer from Cervini is that the hood didn't sit on the shelf at the factory long enough to cure and that the baking process at the body shop (normal instructions are to bake first) should have brought out all the bubbles there are going to be. I hope so.

pascal

The worse thing you can do with any chemicals, is rushing the curing process...
It's a nono, something's gotta give.

157dB

Follow Cervinis recommendations.

shanec

I've put Cervini in contact with the body shop. Cervini tells me everything is being done right. Bake + prep = found & fixed bubbles. Baked a 2nd time = no bubbles found. The whole point of baking is to shake stuff like this out. I

Ideally, no bubbles would ever be found.

pascal

Good deal.

shanec

Here's the finished product along with a chin spoiler. Fingers crossed for no bubbles.

mygt500

Looks great! What was the total cost for the prep and paint?

shanec

I paid $1150 for prep and paint of that hood, chin spoiler, and GT-500 spoiler. I went to the best body shop around here. It is known for great work and....not being particularly inexpensive obviously. Don't know what the cost would have been for just the hood.

The rear spoiler isn't installed in that pic. I saved a little bit of money by telling them I'd install it myself. It uses factory holes for the stock spoiler.