Welcome to the site. I like the way that raptor stuff looks in the trunk. Congrats on owning a WD subframe. Hard to come by now days.

Soft seal or GM
 

Should I stick with GM cowl to hood seal and trunk seal or is soft seal as good or better quality (fit and all). Anyone have an opinion from experience.
Thanks:question:

Here is my experience. First installed GM hood seal. The back of hood stood up 1/2 higher then fender. They were ok in there day, however, they never fit properly. Then purhased soft seal. Musch better fit. Afterwards decided what the heck do I even need a seal for. Filled the holes and painted to match smoothed out firewall.

R.P.

Nice looking bird. . .I hadn't seen this post before. . .I wish I was as far along on my project 'Bird (Tomahawk) as you are, but I'm still waiting to be able to ship mine from out of my Dad's garage out to me in Cali!!!
Thanks for sharing the Raptor stuff (and the ceramic Lizard Skin stuff from Speedster). . .I'm gonna have to check both of those out. . .I wanted to coat the underside/frame of the car with a more durable finish than just paint or powdercoat but I didn't want the extra wait of a truck bed liner. . .I will definitely be looking into both of these coatings! What company produces the Raptor coating. . .I tried a google search and found a company called Extremeion that has a Carbon Raptor coating, but I'm not sure if this is the same stuff that you used? Where did you get it applied at?

'Bird looks really good and good luck on the trunk deck gaps. . .not looking forward too much to that portion of my build when I get there.

Thanks for sharing!!!

Joel

Oh by the way check out my '67 Firebird 400 coupe. . .Project: Tomahawk in here.

That will be a cool car when finished. Great stance. I used the Raptor coating on the underneath of a '69 GTO me and my brother are building. Great stuff and easy to apply. My local paint supplier had a kit with the gun for a $100 bucks. Came with 4 quart bottles. Just add the activator to a bottle and screw it on the gun and spray. Looks nice too. Did the whole underneath with 3 quarts over a black epoxy primer. Thinking about doing the inside too.
atomicjoe23 It's made by U-Pol.

Looks good and it's got me thinking! :)

So how do you guys go about getting a good ground for wiring when using a coating like this? Is it soft enough to cut away where needed to get back down to metal for ground wires?

Thanks for the info!! :thumbsup:

I have been meaning to ask about Lizard Skin. Speedster, you said you have use it, how is it for heat and noise? we use gator guard on our cars at work, the durability for rocks and road wear seems to be great but i think it is noisy!
Kev

Thanks BretB

any updates?

this is his son, i just hopped on to grab a few of the pics and it looks like he's been doing a lil slacking :goofy: i dont know what he's thinking, posting up a project and not keeping it updated haha

but it took kind of a stand still while waiting on some stuff. its being worked on now tho... the front valence just got finished and now the gas cap is being mocked up and about ready for some fabbing.

iwent and took a few pics of the valence and the car on the lift yesterday, i'll try to post them up tonight