Sanding down brand new paint feels very weird! I'm happy with the final product though. Nice little $9 mod

 

I don't know why, but I like that part better color matched to the car. You did a nice job though. Are you gonna clear it?

 

nice, i like that look a lot

 

Don't clear it, the flat black looks great. I think this makes our lancer look so much more aggressive. Good job on the painting too

 

Thanks man! I do not clear coat flat black. I picked up a can of Dupli-color flat black bumper paint, some sand paper, and painting tape from autozone. Only cost me about $9, and the prep-work was the most difficult/time-consuming part. I used 600 grit to remove the factory clear coat, and jumped to a 2000 grit for the final stage. The 2008 Lancer's have pretty good lines to work with for this modification. Applying the painting tape was pretty easy thanks to this. I've done this a few times on other vehicles using the same paint, so I felt pretty comfortable doing this to a brand new car.

Here are some new pics:

 

I like this look. Not sure about the chrome emblem, but what could you do.
good job.

 

you did a good job with the paint. You gonna put the license plate back in the middle or somewhere else?

 

looks great nice painting!!

 

Very nice, paint the emblem red now!

 

great job bro. looks like it was factory.

 

i still don't like the look, but this guy did it better than any one else i think. the car looks like it came that way from the factory.

 

this mod is getting way too overdone. i think if your gonna do it. You need to fill in the license plate holes and do a gloss black with clear imho.

 

I wish I could of filled the holes in, but Maryland requires a front license plate. I just take it off for pictures. The gloss black color would not match the grilles of the car, so I decided to go flat black with no clear.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

 

Very nice. job well done

 

Now people will ask you if that is an EVO X, lol! I still get people asking me if my car is an EVO VII/VIII, lmao! And I don't even have any badging anymore.