as youall know my car is being done at the moment in Tamworth by Jef and Jamie and the crew at Zedworld .at the moment it is being prepped for the wide body kit and it has been totaly stripped down .....ok here is my dilema

 

i want to keep the car RED .....but would like to go to a metalic or pearlescent red ....not particularily nissan red as at the moment it is a 50/50 mix of audi tornado red and porsche gaurds red. what colours do you know of and on what cars that are a nice red ...?? if you can please post up some pics ..need to make my mind up very soon and would welcome the forums help on this

 

thanks all

 

steve

as youall know my car is being done at the moment in Tamworth by Jef and Jamie and the crew at Zedworld .at the moment it is being prepped for the wide body kit and it has been totaly stripped down .....ok here is my dilema

 

i want to keep the car RED .....but would like to go to a metalic or pearlescent red ....not particularily nissan red as at the moment it is a 50/50 mix of audi tornado red and porsche gaurds red. what colours do you know of and on what cars that are a nice red ...?? if you can please post up some pics ..need to make my mind up very soon and would welcome the forums help on this

 

thanks all

 

steve

 

My favourite red on any car is actually a ford red called Candy Apple. Its absolutely gorgeous, really nice deep, metallic red

ooh thats nice ......

Lovely colour that Janus has put up, heres a Supra in a similar shade

 

that would look so nice on a zed ....anybody any good at photoshop :)

im sure its the same color as zcentres demo car

Pretty much all the candy colours are nice, Lukes is well cool.

They nearly all use a silver base though and if you've the money and fancy going 1 step further, use a chrome base, it's ubber sexy and the candy can become a chrome red or black or blue etc.

 

The body shop doing yours won't have used this system as very few have and the paint is imported, plus it means spraying gloss black, then chrome then the top coat which is actually a coloured laquer, but if you fancy something unique, it's the way to go :-)

smithy

 

Edited November 7, 201015 yr by Smithy

 

 

Candy apple red on a Zed at JAE this year. looked better in person than my crappy photos.

 

 

Candy apple red on a Zed at JAE this year. looked better in person than my crappy photos.

 

i recognise that zed :D

 

pulls like a steam train!! well, it did once i'd finished with it:thumbup:

...i do fancy something unique which is why i went for PE1420 tubs ...thanks for teh planting the seed of thought Paul ill look into that and discuss it when i speak to Andy doing the paint tomorrow ....

Hi Steve,

 

Mazda do a red that looks like flat red but when the sun hits it it lights up as it has a metalic flake.

 

I know it has been used the 5 door saloon might be a 6?

 

Andy

Edited November 7, 201015 yr by Andy Isherwood

hi mate - modded zed in candy apple red:

 

http://www.300zx-club.com/forum/showthread.php?6640-Zed-for-sale-(&highlight=candy+apple

Hi Steve,

 

Mazda do a red that looks like flat red but when the sun hits it it lights up as it has a metalic flake.

 

I know it has been used the 5 door saloon might be a 6?

 

Andy

 

velocity red as on the rx8 ,its a pearl

hi mate - modded zed in candy apple red:

 

http://www.300zx-club.com/forum/showthread.php?6640-Zed-for-sale-(&highlight=candy+apple

 

Hey Guy,s,

 

That Z is Darkside tt,s old car, used to be a candy apple yellow

 

Cheerz

 

Chris

That is a really nice colour. don't really think it suits the Z though for some reason.

That is a really nice colour. don't really think it suits the Z though for some reason.

 

I'm with you on this one, I'd most definately go for the standard Nissan red.

thanks everyone ....i have decided on..........well you will have to wait and see :)

after owning the car for 6 years and after being sprayed a custom flat red from the nissan flat red when i first got it, i have decided to modernise the car a little with a fresh coat of lexus Mattador red Mica...i cant post any pics up of the colour as our firewall blocks photobucket etc so if anybody wants to post up a pic of the colour go ahead as i cant really demonstrate it .. :( think it will look nice with the wide ass kit going on

I was going to go for the candy red, but decided to go against it due to colour match, if you have a paint problem or any paintwork done it will almost be imposible to re match the original candy colour. If you want it to be right you will have to paint the whole car again.

I just thought you should know this, the same applys to flip and special finish paints

 

Allan

Thanks Alan

 

i did speak to the body shop guys they have said that as its a mica finish ( very small metalic particles ) and a standard colour on lexus it should be easy enough to match if anything bad occurs , your point is the main reason i went off the candy apple red as getting the base coat right again then the clear candy on top it would never colour match properly ... Jeff is keeping an eye on it for me