Chip26

Good luck w/the emblems and definitely get some pics posted once you get them done, and once you get rims. I always enjoy seeing a nice Nordic Green RX-8.

burnell

hey chip 26 whre are u from im from brockton i see mass plates and i like the black ive painted my emblems like a mid gray and going to paint my stockies the same

willnordacgreen1211

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^ lol you stole my facebook pic hahaha

burnell

hahhahaha ik lol ive had it on my fb for a while and my emblems are lighter than yours

Chip26

I'm from Fall River

RXeligion

Luckily, I also have the privledge of driving a beautiful Nordic Green 8. It just feels so much classier than my old VR between the Green exterior and the black and tan leather inside.

Does anyone else feel like James Bond when you're driving around?

Chip26

I love NG, one of the more underrated colors on our car. Great pic btw, love to see the car during/right after a rain shower.

RXeligion

Check out my location: 9/10 of my photos are in the rain...

Edit: Location was Pacific Northwest when I made this comment.

Grimm0ne

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I love my NG, if i get an 09 or something else, it will be Nortic Green, just love it. Don't see it every day like others (no phun or hate towards the others,, I was very fond of Jet black (my gsx was black) I need to do a buff and wax, i bought the stuff, just havent gotten around to do it, and found that around my spoiler its starting to bubble so i need to get that addressed before i really do anything.

NGM FTW.

Stars25

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Here's mine. I need some help with deciding what color strakes to get and what color side markers (clear on clear backing, clear on white backing, or what)?

RXeligion

I dont know if I would do strakes. If you're going to do it, I would go with aluminum. IMO, I would lose the chrome door handles too. Sure, they match your wheels, but they stick out like a sore thumb. As far as side markers go, I'm still using the ambers. I'm not convinced that clear or stealth look any better.

Stars25

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Yeah the handles have been on for a long time. I've been meaning to sit down and try and get that 3M tape off carefully since they are just covers but just haven't had the time yet.

EDIT
I just looked at my picture and noticed that there is some weird glare on the handles, they don't stick out like that in person, but I'm still looking to take them off though.

Other thoughts on strakes or corners? I keep going outside to try and picture the car with clear corners instead of just look at your guys' pictures haha

Roidz

I would go with clear corners.

Stars25

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Clear with white backing or all clear? I'm not sure which one I've seen in this thread previously.

RXeligion

Ekliptik: Did you ever get around to wrapping your tails in red tint? I would love to see a pic if you have one! I remember we were both talking about that a couple of months back...

ekliptik

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^ ahh not yet. im still very curious as to what it would look like on our color. i just dont want it to look to christmas.

i have the 3rd led brake light in red and it looks good.

Chip26

I debated whether to go w/clear corners for a while before I finally pulled the trigger.

RXeligion

I chopped this together by dominating the photo in favor of red and barely tweaking the saturation level. This is pretty close to what you can expect. To me, it doesnt say "Christmas" but I think it will depend on the red you go with.




On a side note, I'm thinking of using dark chrome treatment on my badges. Has anyone done this yet? The wife is out of town, so I'm all about the car this week. Today I started to put the clay to her. She looks about 70% better, but she's still got 70k miles on her, too...

Pics after she's done

@ Chip: I have no issues against clear corners, I just dont feel that they would look any better. Plus I would have the quality drop switching from OEM - so its like trading one eyesore for another. I'll chose the cheaper of two evils

ekliptik

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great photo shop. now.. can you do me a favor and do the same shop but leave a little rectangular section between the strakes in the light were the reverse light bulb is.

should look even better!

burnell

chips i think my buddy said he seen u around ... do you come to brockton area alot?and im doing black out coners and not sure if i wanna do red tail lights or blacked out

RXeligion

Something like this?



I think its either an all-or-nothing scenario when covering tails. If you start cutting into the vinyl and leaving more exposed edges, you're going to have a lower quality covering. If its the back up lights you want, there is a company that makes an LED liscense plate that is pretty nice.

ekliptik

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something like that. except i was wanting just the part for the reverse bulb to be left without the red tint. not all the way to the turn signal area also.

if you have enough energy to do it again for me could you also make the part left without red tint little brighter? it looks smoked in the second attempt.

thanks!

RXeligion

Actually, that's about right. It would be the equivalent of spot of missing tint on an old van window. After looking at this, I'm kind of in the same boat I was in with the corner lights. I know that it will look different, I just dont know if it looks better. The real trouble is that this will cut down on the reflection from my reflectors, and may even render them useless (also illegal) so I'm really back and forth about it. Did you end up buying the role a couple of months back?

Chip26

Not usually in Brockton, unless I'm driving to Boston or something. The last time my car has been north of Taunton was back in April on my way to a Bruins game.

Also I was going to say Blacked out taillights all the way but the red-out looks awesome.

RXeligion

I posted these in the DIY forum a couple of days back, but I thought some of you might like to see this as well. I've covered my silver console rails in piano black vinyl. They now match the window switches and the head unit perfectly. It cost me about $50 to buy the vinyl, but I bought WAY more than I needed. On the upside, I have enough to do my b-pillars too.(my project tomorrow)









This one is for reference. I feel like the brown leather stands out much better. I'm pretty psyched about this little change.