‼️ UPDATE FORD E-RAPTOR grille swap and install tutorial

[Bombero]

Camera lined up decently but not perfect, gotta wait for sunny warm weather to hit my glue work with matte black but otherwise pretty pleased with it.

EDIT: Also going to completely black out the stupid white light bar, I hate it and tried to 'smoke' it with smoke plastidip back when it was warmer, but it's super uneven and pisses me off. Gotta wait for better weather but have matte black plasti-dip to fix it. Reminds me of the plastic the light cover in a refrigerator is made from lol.

Happy Sunday everyone

Looks so clean, hope to achieve this level of sickness some day!

 

[Bombero]

It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But it’s different. Took a bit of modification for the camera and sprayer but I think it came out alright. My stock one is getting repainted after 40k miles of rock chips so it will be good as new when I decide to swap back. For now. I’m happy with being “different”

Man, that one mean looking truck. Nicely done. Thanks for posting the step by step instructions.

 

[SSNutz]

Camera lined up decently but not perfect, gotta wait for sunny warm weather to hit my glue work with matte black but otherwise pretty pleased with it.

EDIT: Also going to completely black out the stupid white light bar, I hate it and tried to 'smoke' it with smoke plastidip back when it was warmer, but it's super uneven and pisses me off. Gotta wait for better weather but have matte black plasti-dip to fix it. Reminds me of the plastic the light cover in a refrigerator is made from lol.

Happy Sunday everyone

Real nice looking Truck! Would you be able to tell me how you blacked out the light bar with plasti-dip? Is this better than wrapping?

 

[Zaptor]

Real nice looking Truck! Would you be able to tell me how you blacked out the light bar with plasti-dip? Is this better than wrapping?

Thank you, I appreciate your kind words.

Relatively straightforward, I just masked everything *but* the light bar and sprayed. It absolutely has better coverage than a wrap, every one I've seen has light peeking past the tint at the edges.

The problem (for me) is that whereas an opaque color does not really show spray 'strokes', this translucent tinted "smoke" stuff does, giving it a weird marbly look when lit. I had intended to black it out with straight matte black last year, but the weather turned before I got to it, and it's too cool for paint now.

Next Spring though, I will peel the smoke and go black. I love the look without the light bar (that does nothing at all except look different, not enough projected light to matter one iota), and while the truck is already pretty stealth as far as EV trucks go, taking the lightbar out of the visual cue stack helps it fly under the radar even more IMO (and look a bit more Raptor-y).
Cheers
-Zap

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