I'm finishing up my engine, about ready to drive, but paint is shot. Question is, what is the best color to show of the cars curves. I'm not going red, or blue. It's faded yellow now, and seems the bright color shows detail. Not a daily driver, so not worried about attracting cops, and interior is most likely going black with whatever color the car is for the stitching. Thanks for the input. I have been looking online and each picture looks perfect, but unsure in the real world with dust and muck.

 

are you painting the engine bay as well?

 

i had a yellow FD and i really liked it. prefect color for a top feeding predator, which is what the FD is.

 

Wait, you said on your title: "best color to show curves".
I don't think black is the best for this and besides, they always look dirty and the swirls marks on the paint would drive me crazy.
It's your car, paint it any color you like, I would stay with the yellow though.
To answer your question light colors show body line best, like silver.

 

Sun Burst yellow

 

My mom's British Racing Green Jaguar just *pops*, especially in the sun. If I were to change the color on my FD, there'd be no question.

(not her car)

 

Something about British Racing Green doesn't seem right on an FD.

Black would show curves best IMO, but it'll also show any flaws and is tougher to maintain. Yellow or white are probably the easiest colors to maintain. And if your original color was yellow, it would be the easiest to do a proper complete on....IMO. If all you have now is a single stage, any color in basecoat/clearcoat is going to look WAY nicer.

 

I agree with Sgtblue, a well maintained Black is looks awesome, but it is a pain to keep clean and you are always out polishing ( I know from experience lol ). Black shows ANY imperfections be it a small dent/flaw to spider webbing and swirls. If you have black you will probably and up changing how you wash your car

 

I'm doing the interior black, not the car. Example black leather, yellow stitching. Matching car color to stitching when I reupholster.

 

I'm partial to the yellow myself, i just get so many negative comments about how *loud* the color is. I know it's my car, my choice, but the comments do get to me after a while.

 

I like sun burst over cym. Sun burst has a nice pearl to it like the Rio Yellow Pearl on AP2 S2000. CYM reminds me of the Spa Yellow on S2000. Light and almost like a lemon.

 

I've never seen a BRG one in person. A lot of people on this club seem to not like Montego Blue either, but I get so many compliments on the color of my car that I think the RX-7 guys are the minority.

 

I never liked the silver color option until I bought a silver FD, and over time I noticed that the color really brings out the FD's curves

 

Don't get me wrong, it's a great color. Few colors look more right on an XKE. But for me it's so associated with British cars, putting it on a Japanese car just doesn't work...for me anyway.

 

I think if you could find the right color changing paint, the FD would look unreal. My BMX bike is painted with Dupont chromasystem that goes from dark blue when looking straight at it, to purple, to red, to gold at more of an angle. This paint might be too extreme for a large surface area like a car. Maybe a paint that switches between only two colors, like yellow to orange, would be more suitable.

I'm one of the few that think MB is an awesome color...everything goes with it

something like this really makes the curves dramatic...but imo this might be a little over the top for most people:

 

Didn't get ya wrong at all, Sgt! I hope I didn't come off as defensive or anything.

needsparts, that's kinda-sorta what the Montego color does. I've had more than one person ask what the color is exactly. Blue? green? both?

It's called Montego Blue, but everyone around my house calls it "the green car".

 

I think white is clean and black is mean.

I own a black car.

I also like black wheel/black car, and I like black wheels on a white car.

get wild on the lug nuts and rotor hat, the slight color differences actually is what sets apart cars IMO.

I have black wheels, black car, project mu rotors with purple lug nuts. looks really good. lots of small spokes is what I like as well for wheels.

 

If you want to show off curves on the FD then black is the worst color for that. Think about it: given that it is black the curves get lost not only because it hard to see the variations due to surface being black, but also because of the highly reflective properties of a shiny black car. In other words your eye will focus more on what is being reflected rather than the actual curve of the car. With said you can't really go wrong with a black FD.

IMO brighter colors show curves the best: yellow, silver, white, orange, blue, ect.

This is what I am talking about:

 

White/light colors will show details, and hide imperfections-Black/dark will hide detail, and show imperfections.

 

Any color with a high pearl will show off the curves the best. I love the stock rad but would paint it a high metallic gray if I were to change the color. It looks amazing on my bike

 

A shade of beige. Works for humans.

 

If you go yellow then you can't beat Giallo Orion (Lamborghini Pearl Yellow).

If you are looking to stay within Rx7 colors, then my go to would be IBM.

 

The Most Beautiful Car Ever!

 

You really need to keep it some version of yellow to avoid having it look like *** when doors and hoods and hatches are opened. Nothing screams "wrecked car" more than seeing mis-matched paint. Unless of course you're going to do a $10K paint job and literally paint EVERYTHING.


Personally, I think CYM is the best paint for an FD. The first one I saw, the first one in Wichita, Kansas was a CYM painted version. The way the mica in the paint caught the sunlight...man, I can STILL remember it like yesterday, even 23 years later.

 

Hmmm, I think I know what you're talking about, but IMO they only look "lemon-like" if the CYM is older and faded. Properly applied FRESH CYM looks just like the example Montego is sharing, and it has a lot of pearl and metallic in the paint.

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