93 stealth

I'm tinting one of these tomorrow. I didnt see a thread when I searched, so I figured I'd ask. What are the problem areas on this car? The BG looks like it can be a PITA. anything else?

LOL!


Good luck.


BG is a PITA to shrink. Matrix on top IIRC. Depending on how you do it, that stupid banana shaped spoiler/wing needs to be removed. Good luck getting it off too. You have to remove all the plastic on the inside, take off the motor for the wiper blade, then remove the wing.

Some people can do it with the wing in place.


Side windows need to be shrank....a LOT!

Door panels do come off pretty easy if it helps you. Otherwise, the doors are frameless and shouldn't need it (I do just so a finger doesn't pop up and bring in 13 years of dirt). There's just some screws here and there and such.

Quarter glass needs to be shrank!! I can't remember if it's the stealth or the 3000gt, but it's much easier to turn it sideways so the factory edges are front and back instead of top and bottom.


My new rule is no stealths/3000gts for anything less than DOUBLE what I charge for a 4 door car. Let the guy down the street deal with it.

Also prepare yourself for a VERY picky customer. They feel they have the coolest car in the world (especially the twin turbo ones) and even worse if it's just the base model because he was too poor to buy a fast one!




You're screwed.

pfff,ametuars.

it will be difficult if its your first one, but if youve tinted other curvy cars without any problems you should be okay. you just have to shrink every window.

what counts as curvy? older model Celica BG? Ford Probes (owners also have a superiority complex, I've noticed). I did do a late 80's camaro. it turned out "okay." it was when I was learning. i wouldnt let it fly today, but for the $80 it cost the guy for the whole car, he got over it.

All I have to say is sheeeit. sounds like I should call him and see if he can get his car here any earlier.

None of those cars compare to a stealth, and I agree with 1 piece, amatures

That car should take about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs just because of all the shrinking involved and the 14 years of dirt in it, but depending on your exp. it may take alot longer

If you've never done one, get it there early and TAKE YOUR TIME!! Severe BIOTCH of a car, somewhat like a new Bug. Sides are no easier than the back. DD is right, I charge AT LEAST double for them, cuz I can do 2 or 3 civics/jettas in the same time as it takes to do one of those. What really pisses you off is actually turning away a couple of easy cars because you're in the middle of one of them!!!

You 2 are laughing now.......where were you in 92 when they came out and before heat shrinking

I was doing the doors in 2 pieces, and the BG in 5 or 6 I honestly can't remember its been quite a while since I pieced one

Oh ya and I was right here in AZ before heat shrinking, the sun used to shrink em pretty good though

I take the door panels off on this car,also it helps to take off all the trim around the back window

thank-yuo all for your responses it helpd out greeatly!

Darkdan 's post is a big

Glad we could help

so did you get r done?

Got one today... How'd it go want2mod?

Post pics please! I'd love to see them

You still kickin 45 ....or did the car win

Looks like the car kicked his azzz

I bet he gets it whooped

Good lookin' out Willie.







Thanks for the props Will, and you're dam right I did. I did like Key suggested and took my time. However, I found the sides to be much easier than the back. Just do a little double shrink. So, all in all, it took me three times to get the BG to shrink right, jammed a couple of old turbos under the wiper arm (no way I was going to break 15 year old plastic parts to get the spoiler off), cumbersome, but ultimately managable. I didn't have to shrink the quarters, just stretched the film a little-must be the Mitsi 3000 DD.



BTW...



What does IIRC mean?





I did shoot some pics, though I was in a hurry and couldn't find very good lighting (reflections everywhere). By that time I was running late for my other job . I should have time to put them up soon.

are you driving around looking for a dodge stealth to take pics of? nah jk
congrats on the victory

way to go 45 keep pluggin

YEP! DD nailed it.



I don't know about you, but I was in KW, shrinking them from day one. (WE got 'lectricity down there back in '89) And EVEN SO...........................They SUCKED!!!! I guess nobody ever brought you an AMC Pacer before heat shrinking? I have seen a grand total of ONE come thru my doors, and thats a GOOD thing!!!

They ARE proud of them cars, aint they?

In all my 24 + years of tinting I can proudly say I have NEVER done a pace car and have never had anyone ask.

We had electricity then, but I had not heard of heat shrinking. I treated that car like my "willie" back then. I just pulled and stretched on that sob until it would go any further.

Ive actually had a person on this board who is probably one of the top 2 or 3 tinters I have ever met tell me he 2 peiced those doors when they first came out

Phuck that pacer and the gremlins, I learned in my early days when to send them to the competition

2 pieced a stealth door

Here's the pics...






CS50 on the fronts, CS35 on the rest.

They put the 3000gt body kit on it....

laughing @ myself

you know willie....just like we always do....laugh at him.

I wasnt gonna tell, did you catch that compliment too




shud up catdaddy

don't laugh, it aint funnneeee



















ya, after I read that, I wasn't sure who you were talking about

You learn quick!!!!!







Yep! Saw a buttload of them before the first one came into my shop. Laughed my assoff!!! I almost wish I hadn't done the 1st one, 'cuz word got out I could do 'em. ( LIke DD said.... I was screwed from then on.)







Was that yer 1st? Good job!! They aint no joke.

Thanks Key. Yeah, it was my first. Not much else scheduled so I took nearly six hours on it-with alot of breaks. I can't believe how nicely the film laid on those frit lines on the BG. No sanding or glue. This site was definately helpful. BTW what is DD's refrence to the matrix on top "IIRC"?

this must be a jinx but somehow somebody just booked a mitsu 3000 gt for tuesday!!
We'll see if they show or if somebody here is playing games!

I do have to say this is one of the worst cars i have done. I have to do the bg tomorrow.. I am not to excited.
The doors suck so bad...

I own a Dodge stealth... my mom bought it new in 93 she gave it to me 5 years ago... My old boss tinted it 3 times( looked horrible all 3 times) it sat up broken for 3 years, i just got it out of the shop last week. Wasn't lookin forward to tinting it... did it last night i must just be the best tinter in the world because it only took like an hour. But of course i know how to tear the car apart as far as panels and spoiler and stuff..... and Btw... to dark dans first post years ago the wiper motor does not have to come off to get the spoiler off theres only one screw holding the left and right sides and 2 in the middle part of the spoiler. Definitly not a fun car to tint but wasn't a that much of a challenge.

I tinted them in 93 when they were new man. I was one of a few that knew how to heat shrink then so it was a cake walk.