Anyone has done evil eye hood mod with resin fiberglass? i welded mine but the rust caught from under and now shows on top.
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Only if the hood is glass.
Rule of thumb, if the hood is metal, weld on metal. If the hood is fiberglass/carbon, use fiberglass. If you try and put fiberglass on the metal hood, it'll eventually lift and peel off due to the different expansion rates of the two different materials.
Did you reseal both sides of the work area after welding them in (I.e. epoxy primer or another quality sealer)? If not, that's probably why its starting to rust.
I did prime it after .
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Epoxy primer FTW!!!!
On the inside my car looks like a fighter jet.
No just primer then paint.
I guess i have to remove the hood and remove all rust under and on top then redo my fiberglass -bondo.
I have an extra hood and wanted to try doing evil eyes with just resin -fiberglass.
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Not gonna work. The fiberglass is only gonna stick for so long til it lifts.
And as Rob said, epoxy primer is the way to go. When you grind down to bare metal, you are removing the zinc coat applied from factory and that is what really seals the metal from the bottom up. Epoxy primer will properly seal the panel.
When I go to bare metal, I abrade the metal with a rough grit, shoot epoxy primer (especially crucial after welding something like evil eyes since the welds will probably rust out first if its steel filler), body work over the epoxy, then some 2k primer over the body work, then paint.
No good sealer over the metal, it'll rust. Unfortunately no way around it.
Thanks for your replies guys now i'll get to work the right way.
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