Jager

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Paint is important imho. If you drive what looks to big a peice of coal, its not to fun. Plus have you heard of anyone who didn't want to flaunt a new paint job? I say save up.


I'm going FD silver maybe.

jerd_hambone

i think that paint isn't important, but performance is.... people will look at a flat black rx-7 and think "wow thats a real piece of crap" then when you leave there 4 cylinder tiburon sitting, they will think different....

jerd_hambone

and plus... if you have a car that looks good, but you get beat by a flat black crappy looking car, it would kind of be worse because it would make you ashamed... lol....

Jager

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Does your car have any performance modifications atm?

jerd_hambone

not at the moment... i've only had it since friday....

jerd_hambone

and no i didn't mean you.. it was an in general statement for people around here... lol

Liquid Anarchy

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...fuggin SCC...

:hatehatehate:

Jager

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Oh ok, well, some things are more important to others. Maako can do it for $399 I beleive, if you're intertested.

jerd_hambone

Maako?

Jager

iTrader: (10)

Around here it is a cheap quick paint job place. Sure the paint jobs arent the best in the world (as you get what you pay for) but its better imho then flat black.

13b_drifter

A friend is considering painting his car with just grey primer and then clearcoating it.

Like I say to everyone, "...what ever floats your boat."

staticguitar313

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flat blacj is a cool concept but youll hate it after a while, its not only hard to keep clean, but the more you clean it its going to buff it shiny (i am a finisher by hobby, used to do it as a job)
One of my guitars is flat black, and the areas that my arm and hand rest on it are now almot completely shiny, i've had it almost a year and a half and i never clean it, just dust it off when needed,, going sraight to a supergloss black with all the orange peel taken down and polished up real would look even cooler, i guess it up to you how often you want to paint the car (if i ever get my dodge charger, id paint it flat black like the one in the Blade movies, badass car)

jerd_hambone

i would go to this Maako but thats to far of a drive just for paint

SJ_chameleon

I would not get a MAACO (not maako) paint job. The previous owner of my car got a maaco paint job the last time they painted the car. I just got my car repainted and the shop that i took it to complained so much about having to sand off the maaco paint job. Basically what maaco does is paint over the old paint. It is terrible, when they repainted my car they said it took way more time than average to get the paint off. Whats worse is that they could tell that it was a maaco paint job the second that i drove up because of the way it was flaking . IMHO maaco isn't even worth $399.

Kai

I wanted a flat black RX for a good long while, so I did it... then SCC pops out their flat black STi. Bastards.

Now this spring I'm going factory Brilliant Black, once I get the passenger side headlight back in perfect alignment. God damn deer jumping infront of me!

staticguitar313

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^ yup MAACO sucks, you can do better yourself with a little research and proper prep (and you turn you garage into a properly ventalated spray booth, aka, a bunch of cheap box fans moving air out and in with air conditioner filters on the ones moving air out)

CHEF_EG_1

Krylon Chalkboard Paint. It turns any surface into a chalkboard, and turns grown adults into children.

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sweet86

Paint it a jet black, or midnight blue, it looks blue at daytime and at night it looks black. its sweet

Jager

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Maaco does suck, but imho its better then flat black.

BDoty311

When did flat black become so trendy?

Jager

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An Issue of Sport Compact Car some time ago, they flat blacked their STi. After that now EVERYONE seems to want to be flat black.

BDoty311

Ya, I figured it was because of SCC. It actually started on their Project Silvia, then they decided to do it to their STi. I think its funny how people like to jump on the trendy bandwagon. People are stupid.

inflatablepets

I had Mazda GLC that I painted flat black. It cost me like 20 bucks for the paint from Wal-mart. W were like,"The tires are dirty, Paint them too.
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Here's what the cvar looked like when I got it. (it was free)
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diagoro

you're right, its pathetic. last drift event i went to, like a 1/3rd of the cars were flat black, or primer. its really not cool, get some originality...