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Sup Guys i am currently contomplating different colors to paint my 7thgencivic...i am almost positive that i am going to paint it AEM BLUE...www.aempower.com im sure most of you have seen the color but yes that is the color i plan on painting my car...i just wanted to kno if any of you would happen to know the Paint Code for it or anyway i could find the paint code for that color blue?? thanks for all your help and NObody BITE MY IDEA... IT IS Mine...lol....thanks later

 
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Its your idea, just as it was the idea of the many before you. The color is closer to Electron Blue, and the color of the red SI, witch I think is Milano Red. There was never a silver SI but there was Sillver versions is foreign countries. If you want the color so badly, try emailing AEM or go get it color matched at a shop. Not a lot of shops have the computer that color matches to the nearest color, but I think the local Maaco has one.

I've heard about people matching the car color to the aftermarket parts. From American Hotrods to Import Hotrods, it is all the same. Most people do not share their ideas and then they see their idea and they say there idea was stolen. Its hard to have your own ideas, esp about something that everyone can have. I was wondering who the first person to have the T2001 bumper and the Kaminari sides and rear. I have been wanting that since the Kaminari kit came out. Then others followed. It was just the same as the T2001 bumper. If I did not have a girlfriend, I would have gotten your kit in January... I did not like the way painting my interior turned out. That is why I am fixing it as we speak. I like how people spend there money and do not do the work themselves. I'm vinyling my interior right now and I am thinking about molding and painted my own car. Once you can find the materials making the stuff is not that hard to do. Like casting my hood to make my own Carbon Fiber hood. The materials for the hood should only cost me 100 bucks(I've asked around). The material for vinyling my car only cost me $50. Not bad considering the same job would cost me $1500 in the shop(at least what I want done). The only thing that is stopping me from completing my car is my beat. I do not have a job right now and no money. So I have to wait. Until then, I could finish my interior and build my custom box/trunk. I should put my spare tire back in my car. That's my dedication to modding my own car with my own work. How many people can say that? how many can say that? Or how many can say they have taken everything out there car and put it all back(Panels/re-routed wires/carpet/ceiling/sunroof/dash/seats, you know everything?)?

 
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Good, cause my car will soon look almost exactly like yours if you don't get it painted.

 
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why does everyone get tire that should fit a 6thgen? 205/40/17 fits nicely in a 6th gen's fenders. 215/45/17 are perfect for our cars just like 17x7.5 rims fill up our fenders(width and height). A car does not look right when the wheels are hiding the in the well. I plan on getting 18x7.5(45 offset for both) or 18x8 rims with 215/40/18 or 235/35/18 tires respectively. With the right offset, the tires will not rub and your car will not handle differently.

 
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ASWZero thanks for all your input bro...yea i am definatly doing the paint job i am doing all the prep work myself...i am shaving the door handles and trunk lid myself w/ my friends help and sanding the whole car down then taking it to the body shop (Body Werks)...ASWZero hey arent you Chris Barlan's cousin from illinois??? he is my friend he told me bout your car and stuff and that ur user name was ASWZero...

 
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couple things...

#1 contrary to popular belief, you CAN paint carbon fiber! did you get it for looks (rice) or do dyou get it for weight savings?

#2, there is an integ here that got repainted after kit and bondo work, up close it looks very nice, i will admit, but from far away, you cant tell tis metallic paint, looks like it was painted with housepaint. there is something to be said about clearcoat.......

#3 when you get done, be sure to PM me a pic with a step by step of teh jist of what you did, i wanna compare notes and compare outcomes [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG]

 
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yea i am having Body Werks Prime it and Paint it...i am just doing the other stuff...what color is your friends TEG?? and i am painting the BODY LINES on the Carbon Fiber hood just the middle will be showing the carbon fiber...

 
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well pedrito, if thats what you want, i wont say anything about it, your making other choices i dont agree with, which i also wont say casue i dont wanna talk s h i t righ tnow, but his was painted a medium shade of green. not light green, no blue in it, and certainly not forrest green.

FULL metallic paint, you know how our cars have the base color with SOME flecks in it? (i like that better, actually) his was ALL metal flakes, but you couldnt tell, his car did not shine, as if he got no clearcoat on.

no clearcoat is fine too, you just gotta spend hours and hours waxing yoru car.

to be honest, if i had an american car, i wouldnt put clearcoat on it at all. just LOTS of wax. but i drive a civic.

that means it looks its best with a singel coat of paint, then 7 coats of clearcoat (about 1/16 - 1/8th inch thick ON TOP of the paint) then polished and THEN waxed. all teh wax does on an import car is take out clear coat scratches [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG] forget about protecting the paint......

id personally LOVE to see custom color civics, but if you do the same job as this integ over here, ill personally come over to your house and put speed holes in your carbon hood [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/IMG]

 
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but about yoru hood, the paint will just stop? or will there be trim on top of that? how do you seperate the bodycolor from teh carbon?

 
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Don't know how much truth is behind this, but I heard unpainted CF is prone to break down or disintigrate faster. Any truth to this, or is the breakdown negligible?

 
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fibercarbon, for all intents and purposes, is fiberglass. in reality, it is a specialty fiberglass.

the answer to that is yes, but so is fiberglass. its not teh glass itself, but rather the resin used. if you have a UV stabilized resin, there will be on breakdown.

but if your resin is not UV stabilized, then yes, UV rasys will break down the resin, eventually becoming very brittle and prone to stress corrosion cracking, or worse, complete and total failure.

UV stabilized resins include surfboard resin, and you can get an additive to add to any resin to UV stabilize it.