Hey Everyone,

My FD was hit and now I'm going FEED(shine auto) widebody. I'm going to have a good bit of carbon fiber on the car(sidesteps, diffuser, low pro wing) so keep that in mind when looking at these colors. I have found a pile of sick nasty dark gray metallics and I really can't decide. I want as little brown as possible in the color, more blue is prefered. I think a blue base just makes the gray pop more and makes it look more clean. So that weeds out a lot of them really. Check out the links below for all the colors. If you need more pics just copy-paste into google images, there are much better pics out there(especially the lotus gray)

This car is kinda my inspiration, does anyone know what color this is?


Lotus Graphite gray



M3 Sparkling graphite metallic


Lexus IS300 - Graphite Gray Pearl (1C6)


lexus smokey granite mica(actually very blue tint, look at more pics)

 

I believe the first one is the Titanium Gray Metallic, the color Mazda used for the Spirit-R.
Since I decided to go with that color (Silver Stone originally) I can tell you this, during the day if it is bright outside or the sun is hitting the car you will notice that reddish almost violet hue on the gray. When overcast or on shade, the paint turns into a blueish gray, imo I think it looks great.
I don't know much about the gray's below but they all look very nice too.

 

I don't think so, from all the pictures I've seen titanium gray is more brown and lighter colored. I've actually looked into it quite a bit and don't like it as much as other colors. I think that the Ferrari Grigio Silverstone metallic is the exact color I want. Unfortunately Ken from shine already painted his FD that color and definitely don't want to steal his idea(especially cause I'm using his body parts haha). I'm going to look into the lotus color more, and maybe the bmw color. I really need to get a bit of these paints and do some test spraying. I want to add a couple layers of extra silver flake to the m3 color and see how that comes out. So no one knows who the silver feed FD in the pic above belongs too, or what color it is?

 

Do it like a PRO...

 

Primer with clearcoat

 

That lambo color is pretty cool, but too flat for me. I would want to go matte black if anything, which I thought about but decided not to. I have actually narrowed it down to 4 colors, copy and paste the links to see some pics of them.

2010 Lotus exige 260 lifestyle graphite gray
http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f157...egistry-85475/
see the 6th post for the color. Best I could find unfortunately.
2008 m3 sparkling graphite
Same as above
Ferrari grigio silverstone
http://www.toddcooperider.com/ferrar...image-gallery/
Ferrari grigio ferro
http://www.teamspeed.com/forums/458-...gio-ferro.html

Keep in mind that my car has a red interior and will have a lot of carbon fiber parts now.
It's hard to tell the difference between the two ferrari colors, but I know that silverstone is absolutely beautiful. I think ferro is a little lighter with more of a liquid metal look which sounds amazing. I am pretty much going to have to buy test paint of all of these colors and spray some extra panels I have to decide. The problem with all of them is I cant really see any of these cars in person to decide.

So has anyone actually seen any of these colors in person? Maybe offer insight?

Thanks for all the comments.

 

So hard to tell from images online

 

I would fix the quarter before you put a widebody on, it needs something solid to attach to.