Painting your Body Kit

Here are the Steps I had taken when painting my own Acura Integra Body Lip Kit:

1. Wet Sanding - Kit Preparation (How to Wet Sand)
2. Primer the Kit - helps promote adhesion of the paint to the surface being painted.
3. Painted Lip Kit - pictures after painted with spray can.
4. Rubbing Compound and Swirl Remover - level out the gritty clear coat and bring it to a professional shine.
5. Lip Kit Pictures after Swirl Remover - the results of making the clear coat shine.
6. Body Lip Kit Painted and Installed (Acura Integra OEM Lip Kit Installation Instructions)

Hope this inspires some to try and paint your own body lip kit!

Regards,
Michael Kralj
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Instructions to Install Body Kit

Many people seek instructions or a guide to installing a body kit or body lip kit. 

Here are the instructions I used to install my OEM Acura Integra Lip Kit. 

Have any questions about the install? 

I would be glad to let you know the steps I took when I installed this kit. Just leave a comment here and you will get your response. 

Regards, MK

Body Lip Kit Painted and Installed

Body Lip Kit Painted and Installed 

With the assistance of my father, I finally installed my OEM Lip Kit onto my car. The kit went on pretty easily, just took a little bit of time to complete. Here's the pics of the final results installed on the car.

Here are some more pics of it installed over the years:

Rear shot of the car with the kit:

I got to cleaning the car a few days later and look at her shine. The paint matches really well and looks great. Most people can't even tell I painted it myself, and said it looks like a great DIY job for a rattle can spraying. 

This picture shows how truly great the paint match is for this DIY paint job.

I hope I have inspired some people to try such projects on themselves. With a little bit of time and patience, it will work out. 

Regards, MK

Lip Kit Pictures after Rubbing Compound

Lip Kit Pictures: After Rubbing Compound 

As promised, here are those pictures of my one rear valence after being treated with the Rubbing Compound and Swirl Remover I had mentioned in my earlier post. 

The Rear Valence on the left is not compounded, while the Valence on the right is compounded and the swirl remover was put on afterwards. The results are quite amazing!

An amazing difference. Wow! Leave any comments of what you think. 

 Regards, MK

Using Rubbing Compound and Swirl Remover

Using Rubbing Compound and Swirl Remover 

Rubbing compound is like a fine sandpaper, but comes in a liquidy paste form. The one I used was Turtle Wax Rubbing Compound.

You rub the Rubbing Compound over the surface. I used a back and forth motion on it and you need to put some muscle into it to level the surface out nicely. You will notice the surface looks dull but you should be able to feel its more level and not gritty.

Once you think the surface is level, then I used 3M Swirl Remover. With this, I did it by hand and went in a back and forth motion really quickly. I didn't put too much pressure on it, but just enough and rubbed quickly. I rubbed back and forth about 30 times or so generating some heat on the cloth I was using. You basically continue until the Swirl Remover liquid was hard to see, then wiped off the surface. I repeated the swirl remover 3 times per location. This made the surface really shine up. I will post up some pictures shortly of the before and after. 

You will be amazed as I was. You can do the Swirl Remover by machine as well, but I won't give advice on that since i've never done it. With a machine, if you do it to long you can burn through the clear coat. By hand is safer, but takes longer as well. 

Regards, MK