Anyone have a creative idea for some appearance mod on a black WS6?
04-08-2008, 06:19 AM
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I think the one big thing that a lot of people, especially on this message board forget, is that less is more. I personally think if you tint your tail lights you will be degrading the look of your car.
Just don't go crazy with blacking out stuff. Just because the car is black doesn't mean everything else needs to be black, like the lights. Clean and simple man, clean and simple.
Just don't go crazy with blacking out stuff. Just because the car is black doesn't mean everything else needs to be black, like the lights. Clean and simple man, clean and simple.
04-08-2008, 09:39 AM
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Blackbird stripes in the darkest gray / charcoal you can find, lightly tint the lights like you said, darker tint, and remove dangly crap from the rearview mirror.
I also would have to change the wheels. That said, those look pretty good.
I also would have to change the wheels. That said, those look pretty good.
04-08-2008, 12:15 PM
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Here's our stainless speed mesh grilles for the side and hood. They're $160 for a set of 6 and look great on a black car.
Here's another shot of the tinted poly coating on the tails. It's slick as glass unlike rattle can VHT, and comes in a variety of shades of darkness..
Here's another shot of the tinted poly coating on the tails. It's slick as glass unlike rattle can VHT, and comes in a variety of shades of darkness..
04-08-2008, 12:22 PM
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I have fog light and daylight covers for my car. Looks really good. On an all black car (mine and yours) I don't like to see the daytime running lights when the car is off. I would also put the stock rear sidemarkers back on and spray some vht nightshades on them with some clear cause I hate aftermarket sidemarkers. I already have and I'd say you should paint your calipers black(kit at auto zone is 15-20 bucks). Buy some new rotors(170 at ws6store.com or ebay). Buy and swap out your antenna for one that goes up and down if you can do that. I disabled mine cause I think it's ugly when it's up. Plus I dont listen to the radio anyhow. Oh and are those 17s or 18s? I have 17s but yours look bigger. Maybe cause your car is lowered. Looks good btw
I have fog light and daylight covers for my car. Looks really good. On an all black car (mine and yours) I don't like to see the daytime running lights when the car is off. I would also put the stock rear sidemarkers back on and spray some vht nightshades on them with some clear cause I hate aftermarket sidemarkers. I already have and I'd say you should paint your calipers black(kit at auto zone is 15-20 bucks). Buy some new rotors(170 at ws6store.com or ebay). Buy and swap out your antenna for one that goes up and down if you can do that. I disabled mine cause I think it's ugly when it's up. Plus I dont listen to the radio anyhow. Oh and are those 17s or 18s? I have 17s but yours look bigger. Maybe cause your car is lowered. Looks good btw
The wheels are staggard, usually I hate that look but it grew on me. I was going to go to chrome Z06 wheels in 17x9 and 17x11 but when I saw the car in person I liked it as is. The rears are 18x10 and yea they do rub.
04-08-2008, 12:25 PM
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Here's our stainless speed mesh grilles for the side and hood. They're $160 for a set of 6 and look great on a black car.
Here's another shot of the tinted poly coating on the tails. It's slick as glass unlike rattle can VHT, and comes in a variety of shades of darkness..
Here's another shot of the tinted poly coating on the tails. It's slick as glass unlike rattle can VHT, and comes in a variety of shades of darkness..
04-08-2008, 02:42 PM
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I agree to an extent but I'm just doing subtle things. Everyone acts like I'm going to completely change EVERYTHING about the car.
Your car is beautiful as hell!! I love the cleanliness and I like your setup all together but it's basically a bone stock looking T/A with TT2's. A good look, don't get me wrong, but there are many more like it. Please don't take offense to that because I'm not knocking it, it's incredible. It's just not quite my taste.
I'm not a fan of a lot of things that come on ANY stock car. I don't like the Trans Am badges, door moldings, bird on the center tail light section, etc. It's one of those cars that, if you don't know what it is by looking at it, then you don't know cars. It doesn't need AS many badges and emblems. I'm surprised in myself that I even want to keep the WS6 and ram-air badging on!
I just want to do subtle things to make the car stand out from the stock WS6's. I want people to notice that it's different but not quite be able to tell why. It'll stand out, but not like a sore thumb. I'm 100% sure I'm not going to go overboard with it and despite the nay-sayers it will look clean when it's done. No tasteless graphics/ground kits/badges/etc. I guess you could call the look I'm going for "altered-stock".
I'm even retro-modding the interior. Some trim pieces were painted grey and some had holes cut for switches and what-not. I'm going back to 100% stock except for a nice white shift ****, 1 a-pod gauge, white lit gauges(in place of red), pedals, and steering wheel audio control deletes(maybe an aftermarket wheel at some point).
Your car is beautiful as hell!! I love the cleanliness and I like your setup all together but it's basically a bone stock looking T/A with TT2's. A good look, don't get me wrong, but there are many more like it. Please don't take offense to that because I'm not knocking it, it's incredible. It's just not quite my taste.
I'm not a fan of a lot of things that come on ANY stock car. I don't like the Trans Am badges, door moldings, bird on the center tail light section, etc. It's one of those cars that, if you don't know what it is by looking at it, then you don't know cars. It doesn't need AS many badges and emblems. I'm surprised in myself that I even want to keep the WS6 and ram-air badging on!
I just want to do subtle things to make the car stand out from the stock WS6's. I want people to notice that it's different but not quite be able to tell why. It'll stand out, but not like a sore thumb. I'm 100% sure I'm not going to go overboard with it and despite the nay-sayers it will look clean when it's done. No tasteless graphics/ground kits/badges/etc. I guess you could call the look I'm going for "altered-stock".
I'm even retro-modding the interior. Some trim pieces were painted grey and some had holes cut for switches and what-not. I'm going back to 100% stock except for a nice white shift ****, 1 a-pod gauge, white lit gauges(in place of red), pedals, and steering wheel audio control deletes(maybe an aftermarket wheel at some point).
04-08-2008, 02:46 PM
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For the second line...that is what I think I did to my car. It has a couple very subtle appearance items done. CETA rear WS.6 badge, removed the body trim, tinted the front markers, side markers, and third brake light, white face gauges, headrests. And then just keep the paint in the best shape I could.
04-08-2008, 03:45 PM
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a light tint on the tails, tint the windows, and paint the top of the third brake light solid black so that it blends with the rest of the spoiler, maybe some stainless emblems and your set
04-09-2008, 01:26 AM
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This was another thought of mine. I had 2 ideas, both with stripes though.
Matte black stripes on top of the scoops that would follow to the trunk(not on the roof panel though).
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Get a stock WS6 hood made of carbon fiber and have it painted to match the car except for 2 taped off stripes on the scoops and taped off "ram air" letters, then have it cleared. The hood will be black but the stripes and "ram air" lettering will be carbon fiber. Some may not like the sound of that but I saw it on an 04 cobra and it looked AMAZING!! You almost don't notice until you're up close and then you go "oh ****, cool!" I was never a big fan of carbon fiber until I saw that. It was very tastefully done.
Matte black stripes on top of the scoops that would follow to the trunk(not on the roof panel though).
or
Get a stock WS6 hood made of carbon fiber and have it painted to match the car except for 2 taped off stripes on the scoops and taped off "ram air" letters, then have it cleared. The hood will be black but the stripes and "ram air" lettering will be carbon fiber. Some may not like the sound of that but I saw it on an 04 cobra and it looked AMAZING!! You almost don't notice until you're up close and then you go "oh ****, cool!" I was never a big fan of carbon fiber until I saw that. It was very tastefully done.
