NOTE: Stop voting, the emblems are already on the car.

OK, hopefully with blessings from pgmike for totally biting his idea, I'm thinking of taking my and my new Evo-8 style LANCER emblems and making them black. I have a silver Lancer with black stripes and CF reflectors, so I decently have a silver & black theme going. When I read pgmike's thread, it occurred to me how bad-*** it would look to have the emblems be either black or CF. Also, I'm getting a Ralliart grill when the group buy goes through, so this would remove the last bits of chrome. What does everyone think?

A. Debadge the stock ones and rebadge them black
B. Stick with the stock chrome badging

 

Neither black nor chrome...but black chrome!

 

i think you should take um all off

 

where would youget black-chrome mitsu emblem? ive search high and low for those and no one makes them. Honda makes them and so does Toyota (lexus)..but no mitsu. if anyone knows where to get them...let us all know!

 

I was with pgmike when we painted em, but i have no idea where u could find em done like that already (sry if u already knew how he did it)

 

blacksheep, you have my blessing, now go in peace.....at least i was the original

 

Thanks Mike. Now for the important issue - you painted them how?

 

scuffed them with 320 grit, 3 layers of primer, 3 layers of paint, and 3 layers of clearcoat. then used razor and the sandpaper to shave extra paint and clearcoat off edges. then used 3m mounting tape to mount on trunk.

 

Anyway we can DIY the black-chrome thing?

 

I did the grille on my car, but on the last clear coat i accidently picked up the primer and well ya know... so i did a quick job to finish it up because by that time i was really pissed and didnt want to spend much more time on it. So i am doing it over with pgmike later. But it is a pretty easy thing to do and looks great. I know mike will have pics of the grille up later.

 

I do not know how to make them black chrome, but that would be pretty cool. dont some ppl refinish their rims to make them chrome or black chrome? Id assume that you could use the same paint, but who knows.

heres the link to my painted grille i just did
https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...threadid=61259

 

hey blacksheep, so are you doing this?

 

i would definitely suggest painting the emblems. i did mine probably about the same time as pgmike. it's been done for about a week or so and i love it. why in the hell mitsu put chrome all over the car anyway is a mystery to me. anyway though, go for it.

 

Probably. I just worked a deal to get the LANCER emblem from an Evo owner, so I'll probably do it. The only thing is - I live in Ohio (temp as I write this: 25, feels like 11). This will probably be a Spring project for me, but I may do the debadging sooner. Once the snow melts and temps get reasonable, I think I'm going to go for it. I'll probably put the where it is, the LANCER in the lower left corner, and the OZ Rally in the lower right corner. I'm anxious to do it, but I don't have a heated garage, so I gotta wait. I did print out the instructions you listed, so I appreciate that. Thanks again.

 

could you do it in your basement. i used to live in OH, so i know how cold it can get. living in FL now is nice since im not restricted by temps. i got my evo "lancer" badge for free from the member Scot. you could send it to me and i could paint it for you and send it back if you are that anxious and cant do it till the spring.