lol was just wondering what u guys think of a flat black paint job for my FC lol, im doing some repairs which i thnk will make the car look like trash if i touch paint it,, im saving all my money for the engine, and i dont have enough for the nice paint job i want, sooo should i just stick with the touch up or whattt!@

 

totly dude. lol flat black wuld look killer lol! people will c u and be like hahaha flat black but then u'll rape them at the lite after ur engine work and u'll be lol lol lol

 

what he ^ said

 

if it's to the bottom of the body line ..i would do it..i did a flat black (moulding down to rocker panel) left the rest of the car the original blue..(was an olds..a 1977)..it looked good..the thing about flat black is it will hide little stuff (alot better than gloss black) ..to each his own though ...the person that is going to have to live with it is YOU..ironically though about ten years ago, a buddy of mine painted his old Camaro flat black..reminded me of a stealth fighter!..I don't think he ever did paint it.(with REAL PAINT!)

 

Yeah go for it, I was about to before. Flat black is considered 'blingbling' in some JDM circles.... if you put clearcoat over flat black it acctually looks really good.

 

so you have an idea:



howi

 

yeahh i defiantely like the looks of it... i was searchign the web and whatnot, but i cant find the flat black with a clearcoat, and also i found a flat black metallic which looks sexyyy...also does any paint maker, make flat black, besides the spray can type?, im just wondering if there a deifferent degrees of quality.. if thats possible lol

 

It'll be like that faded paint Rx-3 I seen at 7stock.
Paint job looks like crap, but underneath the hood is a nice 3 rotor conversion!

 

^ for real lol

 

hehe i was wondering about that too. I'm trying to look for a company that makes flat black in non-aerosol cans...

 

im not for bling paint or anything, and i used to think that flat looked nice. but honestly. your car will look like its been primered. and its so passe. every wanna be drifter or whatever the next hot "JDM SHiZZ y0" kid wants to have a flat black paint job.

just stick to factory. you wont kick yourself in the ***** when you grow out of the phase.

hell half of my bike is painted flat black

 

lmao i dont want to drift, i realize i own an rx7, but i just liek driving it. flat baclk i think will just make it look mean, and im sick of all the factory colours, i want some uniqueness. Also im not looking to kick myself in the *****, i just dont have enough money to get my spiritr blue paint job i oh so long for.

 

Hey man do what you want, I don't think the flat black looks bad. I for one would probably do it if a new paint job just wasn't in the budget. $2500 for a cheap coat or 50 spray cans from the local canadian tire? hmmmmmm

 

Go for it , 20 cans from canadian tire should do it just fine , and if you screw up its easy and cheap to fix.

 

You guys obviously haven't ever spray painted too many cars with spray cans

I think about 6 cans will do the trick hahah. How do I know?

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https://www.rx7club.com/attachment.p...d=138572&stc=1

 

wow, i just don't know what to say about that ^^
impressive i guess,


heh, i can post the Sport Compact Car article from way back that showed how they painted the perfect flat black paint job...lol, hahaha

 

heh, i can post the Sport Compact Car article from way back that showed how they painted the perfect flat black paint job...lol, hahaha[/QUOTE]


Thats the one I was thinking about, I beleive it was a wrx and they used 50 cans on it, so I figured that thats what it would take.

 

50 cans is like a 400 dollar paint job jesus i can spray 4 cars for that lol

 

Sure there is... It's called "tremclad"
You can do it like we did my friends van years ago.
Get a gallon of flat black tremclad and some rollers and go to town.
You'll have the golf ball effect too!

 

yup, and before that they did a Silvia...then every 18 year old went and painted their 240sx, civic, whatever and it became they new mad JDM tyte yo.

 

yay! someone agrees with me.

 

What are you waiting for man? Start a spray paint bussiness lol
The frontenac mall should be closed soon enough put it up in there. Then all the skid ***** can cruise down princess street to their local Tim Hortons

 

it does NOT take 50 cans to spray a car flat black!

I think I bought 9 or 10 cans to spraypaint my talon flat black, including the wheels. I still have 2 left - so I'd say 7 or 8 cans is probably lots.

50 would have a layer of paint 1/2" thick.

aside from the hood, it turned out flawless. the hood looks like crap, but I think if I was doing it a second time I could do better... I did it first, which was dumb.

the only thing that SUCKS about flat black is it picks up dirt really quickly because it's, well, flat - my car is always filthy and it is a ******* pain in the *** to clean.

if I was doing it again, I think I'd use a spray gun just because it would be faster and easier - my thumb and finger hurt for a while after holding down the stupid button for so long!

 

lol, you know that you can get those $15 plastic can attachments that turns the spray can into a trigger-type spray "gun", right??

 

yeah, I had one... your finger hurts with it after a while too, since they dont' give you a good torque ratio onto the lid...

as a bonus, the one I had messed up the spray pattern, making big ugly droplets get into the paint stream somehow... so I dont think I used it for very long.. it was probably just the cans I had though.