2004 WRX - Shoopster's build (or rather, repair) thread by Shoopster

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Thanks Ben! When the car is clean, the gravel road just breaks my heart.

My paint's already chipped up though... with a new-ish car, like yours, not even if you paid me lol 

Got my RA's this weekend, gonna install them soon! Black on black.

UPDATE

Plasti-dipped my one remainining badge yesterday. Thank you mrrogers747 for the detailed details!

First, I prepared my work surface. You can never be too careful  

5 coats, took the whole afternoon to do it.

FYI the *best* tools I found to remove dip around the edges and in tight spots (the S stands for SUCKS) are a sturdy business card (plastified), 

and a manicure tool, a soft orange-wood cuticle pusher:

I want a Subaru emblem. On a keychain 

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I cleaned up the engine bay yesterday in between dip coats (a damp microfiber and the tinyest dab of this Mothers stuff I use for the interior) and so here's a pic of the shoopster's engine bay when I got it, and one of how it looks now. For those of us (noobsters) with a less educated eye for these things, most recent changes are detailed on page 15).

BEFORE

NOW