I own a shop in milwaukee wisconisn.

 

Looks like its turning out very nice. that color is hottt. But that stripe is not my thing.

 

nooo...i love cw

 

how much did it cost to you? what machines did you use? and hat as the procedure?

 

It only costs me what the paint and supplies cost seeing as how it is my own shop. The shop is also equiped with a high end baking booth so that makes a big diffence. I will post more pcs at the end of the project to explainthe work I did. But I'll tell you this at the beginning of it all it was all about sanding the car with a file to get the straightest lines possible. When you use DA's and orbital sanders it doesn't come out as smooth nor as straight.

JIC what do you mean by CW?

The stripe will go away next winter and so will the color most likely I want something cleaner (white with pearl or just black....god nothing is sexier than black and white) persoanlly this was done mainly to attarct customers and what not though cobalt is a personal preferanceand it was my choice to do it, but when i saw the car in white sealer i hesitated for about 3 days to finish the rest the car in cobalt. Even all the workers at the shop said white just looked sexier and sportier on the FD...also makes it look smaller. The stripe is love or hate. I've gotten a lot of positive feedback about it and a lot of neg. I personally liked it becasue it accents the color and its diffrent from what you see, not too ricey just clean and along side the door and vent. The car is pretty much recieving a giant suspennsionmake over as well later on and there a box of parts sitting in my closet for it as well. So there is much more to come for this car maybe even some beautiful volk rims from vel 525. And even a V mount now that I have seen a a thread for one around here and am perfectly capable of makimg something like that. And there is aslo the possibility of BNR stage 3 rebuilds in sequential mode too. Seeing as how mine are about to give.

 

sorry for my rong post. i meant what is the procedure.
I didn't noticed that you own a shop. I thought you were not professional. Anyway if you have time some more pics and a how to paint would be very helpful Thanks.

 

I will when i get time

 

Honestly, I would have kept it white and stripe-less. The color's nice looking, but it's too bright.

But then again I prefer the "subdued look"

 

Xeros,

What blue color did you use ?
Is that winning blue from the RX-8 ?

 

nope cobalt kandy blue, it looke a lot brighter than it actaully does in real life due to flash and the camera set up, the darker picture of the rear with the reflection is closer to what it actaully looks like.