I received the two sets of SS letters from Inserts on Friday and started to prepare for putting them on. I started with the front license plate as I could remove it and go into the AC and take my time. I have to say that they came out even better than I expected. You have to bend the V a little in order for it to fit properly. Inserts has a good product as they fit well, provide good insturction and some primer and look extraordinary.
Today I prepared and installed the rear bumper letters - I can't believe how great they look. I took Rich's advice and dropped a tarp down. Really had to take my time to line things up pretty well. These 52 year old eyes are not really up to the task of removeing that darn paper off the two sided tape a then lining things up nicely, but I took my time and things went very well. Rich was right that the E's where the most diffiuclt and took the most time.
I also had the rear bumper sagging on the right and lifting on the left (you can see it in the pictures above), so I got the fiberglass reinforcements from Elkers and fitted them this weekend. They took a little work as you have to do some shaping with a file in order to get them to fit correctly and kind of snap into place. It's pretty easy to file the fiberglass and the powder on the edge leave marks when pressed in place that will indicate exactly where to file. I'll post some pics tomorrow so you guys can see and let me know what you think. Maybe I'm going a bit off the deepend, but I think it looks much better when both sides are straight and look the same.
This sure is a slippery slop as the SS letters now would look better with a chrome C5 emblem instead of the black one that's on there. And now the whole car seems to be evolving to white grey and SS/chrome scheme.
I saw in another forum where one of the member just replaced the front sided yellow turn signal lights with ones that are all white, but use orange coated bulbs. The all white look with the SS & Chrome is slick. Good thing I can't find the white lights anywhere.
OK for now, but I'll be writing soon t see if anyone knows how to remove the emblems on the front and rear and mount new ones. That's for another post and another weekend.
here are a couple of pics... got to get better ones