People with shaved trunks

[wiplash2001]

How did you shave your trunk lid? Me and my friend have benn trying different ways but it not working out. PLEASE help us out. Thanks Steven

[rocesride]

do u know how to weld?

[rocesride]

if u don't have the access to a welder then don't bother...its not hard its just very time consuming

[rocesride]

i think i got some pics of mine during the whole process...maybe i should make a DIY...

[wiplash2001]

Yes I have some know-how to weld. Yes I have accese to a welder. If you have pics during the process id greatly thankful. DYI

[PRIMOCB7]

How did you shave your trunk lid? Me and my friend have benn trying different ways but it not working out. PLEASE help us out. Thanks Steven

a bodyshop did all the work on my cb7, but from what i know and have seen, a metal plate is welded onto the trunk lid to obtain a shaved and clean looking trunk lid. don't use plastic fillers, bondo, etc.. coz that will crack immediately from the trunk being closed too hard.

['93accordse]

yyep, best way to do it is cut a piece of metal, spot tack it in place, then use glass to finesse it.

[roostaccord91]

then use glass????? what???

['93accordse]

*sigh* FIBERglass

btw, just so you know, you cannt just tack a piece ALL the way around the edges of the liscense plate cutout, because the top is metal but around the bottom is plastic. you will need to remove the pieces around the inner tailights and cut a piece of metal to that whole shape to get it to work right. i'll mess around with Paint to see if ican post pics to further help explain my point.

*edit* also, just so you know, this shaving of the trunk only works with 92-93 sedan trunks. 90-91 and 92-93 coupes tails extend into the liscense plate box therefore you will need to do a trunk swap to do this.

['93accordse]

the area surrounded in yellow is where you need to remove the panels then cut a piece of metal to that shape-ish and tack in.

[AI91accord]

hey i was wondering about how much a body shop would charge to shave the entire trunk lid....the lights and license plate box? thinking of doing mine like that. thanks for any help.

[SilverGT]

I shaved my trunk on my project car and i used about 10 layers of fiberglass cloth and resin. it has held up amazing. but my trunk was fiberglass.

but if you have a metal trunk the best way to go is the sheet metal for the accords.
-Tack
-Weld
-Sand
-Prime
-Sand
-Prep
-Wet Sand
-Paint
-Wet sand
-Buff
-Clean up
I know i might missed something but that is a decent outline lol
lol alot of work if it was a diy job. time consuming.

[slammed90ex-r]

some guy i meet charged me $300 to do mine only in primer and he didnt do a great job then the guy who painted my car had to fix it because it didnt line up properly
also if you look at the trunk lid from the side it has a bit of a roll from top to bottom and side to side!