cosmetic work

what do people thing about paint my car to match the bike maybe a little darker and also what can i use to fill the hole where the fog lights were because i can find any

 

[dammitjim]

Quoting agent23:
what do people thing about paint my car to match the bike maybe a little darker and also what can i use to fill the hole where the fog lights were because i can find any




Has the paint on your car really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

 

[mikus]

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yea but seriously, please don't. I'm for changing paint color but that'd be horrible.

You'd need to craft something for that bumper fill. Or screw a license plate over it

 

[Street Surgeon]

Now in English please.

 

[cheekychimp]

Honestly speaking it could work, a sort of Lamborghini colour scheme, but you will have to work it out carefully. If you do the entire car that colour in my opinion it would look awful, but if you model it on the bike more and break up the green with black accents it might well work. You would probably need a few sketches to work it out but maybe painting the hood and trunk/spoiler black, replacing the chrome strip with a black rubber one, getting Gabor to do you some black decals, doing the mirrors black, keeping the roof moldings (roof rack tracks) black, leaving the handles black, doglegs and sideskirts black, using black EVO 8 Enkeis etc. It would need a lot of thought.

As for the foglight holes, if you really don't want to wait and don't need fogs, then I'd suggest getting some air ducts that fit completely within those apertures. Cut a template that matches the foglight surrounds etc and cut a plate that fills that hole (blanks it off) completely and mount the ducts in the centre of that plate so that the plate forms a bezel/surround. Use those ducts to feed an oil cooler, blow cold air on the alternator, feed the airbox, cool the brakes etc etc etc.

 

[turbowop]

Quoting dammitjim:
Quoting agent23:
what do people thing about paint my car to match the bike maybe a little darker and also what can i use to fill the hole where the fog lights were because i can find any




Has the paint on your car really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?




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I approve of this new guy.

 

[steve]

^ +juan

 

[mikus]

but can Neenah handle two?

 

[boostedinaz]

Quoting dammitjim:

Has the paint on your car really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?



Ummm what? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif

As for the OP. Please don't. That color would look horrible on a GVR4.

 

I miss two brackets and barnes calls me out on it. Where is barnes, I want to see what he thinks of that grammar above.

 

[rdomeck]

Motorcycles need to be bright, in my opinion....Cars do not. If you want a car that bright buy something that seats two and has the engine in the back. I.E. a super car! VR4 to me shouldn't be noticed, but a blur that someone says...Did something just go by really fast or was that just the wind?

 

[boostx]

What happend to the fog lights? A darker green may me a better choice.

 

To answer boostx question the car never came with them did u forget

 

[GSX_TC]

why dont you just get some foglights to fill them hole?s?

 

not gonna lie, i love lime green... but on the bike. older jap cars didnt have craaaazzzieee colors like that really, just sexy colors that ooze cool and drip badass. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
that being said, i like the unique idea and whatever makes you happy you go for it. it is your car and your taste.
if your paint job isnt that faded/peeling/garbage, get her buffed up and make it look good. or nothing says "battle ready" like a slightly faded well built early import. im a auto body tech in a small shop with a perfectionist ex paint rep as a boss, and to do a paint job correctly, that a intelligent buyer wont scoff at, you need to remove EVERY piece that touches the surface to be painted. mouldings, mirrors, window trims, emblems, bumpers, fenderliners, professional shops will usually cut out the quarter glass and re-set it. you would want to do the jams as well, inside the doors, trunk lid and inners of the fender, under the hood, etc. nothing says "i hacked it" like opening a door and seeing a big nasty two tone tape line. you're looking to pull ALOT of pieces apart, spending alot of time blocking, priming, masking, jambing, put this together, tape again, spray again.
im a noob too, and my cars damaged and rough but its going to go, and go well before the body gets made over, and ill be matching the factory color, eliminating needing to jamb the car.
its alot of work but if your serious about doing it, please do it awesome and correctly, and make the nay sayers eat their words. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devil.gif

 

[strokin4dr]

You could source out some factory covers like these:



Or just put some fogs in there. Fogs look better than the block-offs whether they are projectors or not.

 

[SouthCaliVR4]

^^^Do want, anybody have a pair of these?!?