Color Schemes
 

So paint color is one thing, but what are some good ideas when you're coordinating two colors on a sports car. eventually i'll paint the car, and eventually i'll paint some engine parts, and eventually i'll redo the interior, but what are some ideas to coordinate these?

just some examples: i'm not much on using a lot of more than two stand outish colors. for the outside right now i like black with bronze wheels. but, bronze interior? no. black interior is ok. i've laso thought about white car, silver wheels, and light blue engine parts and such. but i don't like blue interior. and then, black with all accessories all one color is pretty ricer. so i'm at a lack of coordination, and i'm not too creative in this aspect. sure there are easy ways out, the car wasn't ugly when it was new, but it also came with a black cross-over tube.

let's hear everyones ideas about color coordinating on sports cars!

try mine, it actually looks kinda cool in person.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...restcar003.jpg

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WTF.

http://www.photodump.org/stored/zimg_1437.jpg

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http://www.photodump.org/stored/ZLover4LifeGauges6.jpg

Black with one color is almost never rice. What's rice is a neon disco in the car created by multicolor accessories.

lol ok. all blue lights makes sense, but you don't have blue engine components, suspension components, seats, and the rest. i guess it takes it to the ricer level when the not black color is put on the door handles, badges, and all those little things. so black and what colors are good? i like a kinda light/bright blue, or a very dark blue (just any blue but like 370z blue, which is nice, but not for this application), but red highlights are out. yellow is out. white is a possibility, but i don't know. it's such a fine line between ricer and tasteful. maybe i should just plan to leave the engine and suspension alone with the colors and focus on body, wheel, and interior colors.

My springs are blue, if that counts... and my calipers used to be blue. Contrasting color accents should be subtle, not everywhere.

dude... this isnt your sunday dress... suspension leave whatever color it came, if you are painting then undercoat always black and then decide on one solid color to stick to for sway bars and control arms. done. as for engine dress, use the same colors or one off colors of the car, unless you have ugly canary yellow, also polished parts to accent. its not rocket science.

also, hoov, you still selling the 240z? stick a manual tranny in it i might be interested, the body def has potential.

leave it to snw to have a guide for painting suspension parts, my preference is leave it the color it came, unless like you said, its a hideous color.

lol no it's not rocket science, but it's worth putting thought into before you spend money on it. and i partly disagree. i would paint my springs and my sway bars. not the control arms. and that would be the extent of the suspension. for the calipers, no matter what color the rest of the car, i really like zlover's black and silver.

i guess i am a little closer to deciding already though. maybe it's not so bad to make the suspension parts and engine parts the same, and then use a more common interior color that's not the same, with black outside, and whatever color wheels. that could go well. i like black and dark blue. may go that way. with bronze or silver wheels.

i just think it would be nice to have something to stand out a little bit under there and tie together a couple other colors. it shows that you care about the car. it points out that you have aftermarket sway bars and springs. then you can make that the same color as the valve colors and you have a scheme. sounds like a good plan to me. but agreed, i won't be painting EVERY suspension part.

well i would just replace the springs and thats why i said not to paint them, they usually already come powder coated, paint will fly off springs in a second. ever see the underside of my car (280z) when i finished it? it's all painted other than the springs

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and then for the engine bay to match the color
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see how it all flows nothing clashes certain themes/schemes are carried over and such

yeah looks pretty nice. except for the really shiny wavy black in the wheel wells. i would either have smoothed those out or used a satin color. but the amount of red looks pretty good. about what i would plan to do less the sub frame.

i like the good ole black, white, and chrome

cause soooo many people can see into my wheel wells! you know, with the 1 inch fender gap and wheel all there.... i only did it for protection inside the wells nothing at all aesthetically other than keeping it all one solid dark color cause obviously white woulda stood out.

yeah i know. i still would have gone with satin, or gotten in there with some 40 grit and a couple coats of primer first.

lol thats alot of work for just the under carriage

choosing satin instead of gloss is a lot of work? i've heard of not liking to shop, but seriously... it's not that bad.

i love the gloss, shows that the car is actually clean, you piece of sh1t!!!!! jk, but seriously, satin is for people to lazy to keep gloss clean.

k its fixed

That looks cool.

yeah, would look real good with some neons and a glow in the dark body kit :icon_super:

oh that reminds me CANT WAIT TO SEE THE NEW FATF!!!!!!

Calm down there tiger. It's just angle eyes.

i dont get it?..

oh man, i know you didn't just go there... field day on the kids ass is all i have to say right now... field day, on your ass.

what did he do lol