always.anthony

could someone help me out, with photo shopand/or opinions.

i HATE cleaning the plastic part on the rx8, specifically the bumper. i was thinking, and not sure yet. having everything the car color(metro gray), having the exhaust shrouds black, and a glossy black rotary emblem?

and idk what to do with the mesh part yet

will be washing soon

or also, all black?

i'll probably cut out all the mesh, like take it out completely

picture of the rear:

Brian Major

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it'll look cheesy if you paint it.

Alexb

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No, not true.

I've seen it in white and it looks really good.

But I'm only speaking for white... idk how gray would look.

altspace

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The reason it is flat black, not painted, is for visual appearance in that the bumper would look huge with all of it painted the same color. For darker colored cars (black,grey) it's not much of an issue.

As for the mesh, just so you know there is part of the bumper support directly behind it and will show. There are pictures of it here somewhere.

Pico

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+1 Don't paint it.
the black color add contrast to the rear. It will look huge if you paint it all. I've seen it done and it did nothing for me

FarSide792

ooh ooh! sounds like a perfect opportunity for alfy to contribute!

rodjonathan

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if you want to paint it paint it glossy black dont match it with the car like everyone else said it will make the rear look huge ... as for the mesh thing if you take some paint and paint the lines silver it makes a big difference ... look at my profile for pics

05rex8

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Actually there is the heat shield for the muffler directly behind that fake mesh. It can be cut off I suppose.

Anthony, A.Mair did what you are wanting to do with his WB except he had the shrouds painted too and it looks pretty good actually. I am not sure if the heat shield was cut off or not though. You will have to do some searching or PM him I guess.

gregs

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This may help to see whats behind there, i recently trimed the heat sheild so the exhaust is fully visable

NgoRX8

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haha pimpin those flame pics!

Painting the bumper trim to match the car just does not look right unless you do plenty more to it.

DVS RX8

I did it and id never go back..

It makes the car look lower at the back but it does depend what colour your car is black looks sweet on that white one. I actually want those ings shrouds aswell like the white, should look ok all blue.

Your paint colour is close anyway to the lower bumper colour..

I dunno what u did with your badges but if its still like that get some insulation tape and match the colour with some touch up paint better than some holes to look at mines hardly visable.

always.anthony

sick picture, i think i like the way that looks, not quite sure yet, but it looks good on your car.

i would either have no mesh, or black mesh, and also cut out in the venter triangle

exactly like this, but with black exhaust shrouds

would that melt over time? the paint i mean?

or someone could photoshop this winning blue, but with black exhaust shrouds!

kersh4w

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if you're going to paint the bottom, you have to paint the entire bottom.

doing just the exhaust shrouds in black is going to look odd.

NgoRX8

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would look very weird having the shrouds black and the rest blue.

ZachLegend

i say go for it. I want to see how it looks

kersh4w

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anthony mair has done this. i hope you appreciate me finding the pic FOR you. it only took me half an hour to go through his entire photostream and just find one pic.....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anthony...n/photostream/

always.anthony

wow i love you, ehug it.

and thats exactly how it would be, but with the exhaust triangle shroud being black

and i'm not a fan of chrome/polished at all, should i make that rotary accent black? or body color?

always.anthony

just to give you an idea of how it looks right now, and thats my friends c4 corvette, got it for ....7.5k lol

He||hammer

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Here are some pics I took and posted in the TiG thread this should give you a somewhat better idea for the middle portion at least.

Fortunate Few

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my friend had his painted, it looked really good ! do it!

altspace

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Oh right, the muffler heat shield. I knew it was some kind of metal. In any case it's all a bad idea to me.

always.anthony

thank you for the pictures!

yeah this is exactly what i was talking about, but nvm... i dont think i could pull it off lol

so i'm definitely cutting out the "mesh"

now my options are:

whole section painted black

whole section left as is

or like hellhammer's rx8.


all of this will be complemented with a new ms front bumper (replica) with the splitters in glossy black.


thanks all, what a great community we have.

He||hammer

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If your doing the MS front anyways, you could always try doing the mesh without painting, if that fails, that has to be cut anyways for the MS rear.

rx78840

I used Restore black " Black gel" bought it at wal mart heh.. .check it out.

kersh4w

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it looks good. its a pity it wont last. you have to reapply that stuff every 2 weeks.