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Old Dec 14, 2010 | 07:44 PM
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Well ive always wanted a white LS1 car but have always had black. In the next couple months i plan on painting my black car white. Heres where i need opinions. I plan on painting the door jams and hatch jams but under the hood will remain black. I plan on getting a VFN sunoco hood when it gets painted. I was thinking since the underside of the hood would be like a flatish black and the rest of the engine bay would be a flatish black from factory it would match. As for the exterior i planned on leaving the grille black, matte black sunoco stripes, roof black, dark window tint, whistler headlights, painted berger panel with stainless inserts and possibly some powdercoated black zr1 wheels. Do yall think this would be a good combo? Should i change anything?
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Old Dec 22, 2010 | 11:38 PM
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Well ive always wanted a white LS1 car but have always had black. In the next couple months i plan on painting my black car white. Heres where i need opinions. I plan on painting the door jams and hatch jams but under the hood will remain black. I plan on getting a VFN sunoco hood when it gets painted. I was thinking since the underside of the hood would be like a flatish black and the rest of the engine bay would be a flatish black from factory it would match. As for the exterior i planned on leaving the grille black, matte black sunoco stripes, roof black, dark window tint, whistler headlights, painted berger panel with stainless inserts and possibly some powdercoated black zr1 wheels. Do yall think this would be a good combo? Should i change anything?
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 04:30 AM
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Mine is white I was also thinking of painting engine bay black,white gets dirty fast
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 04:33 AM
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I know I have to paint the under side of my 3 inch ss hood its pretty rough under there
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 07:41 AM
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just paint the hood white, you can leave everything else you want black. But it must be the same color as the car.
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Old Dec 23, 2010 | 08:46 AM
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I love white too.... I wouldn't leave the roof or mirrors black. Make em white too. Satin engine bay, satin berger panel, satin sunoco stripes will be the perfect offset. IMO! What color white you going with?
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I really want to make my black car into a Bright Purple Metallic LT1 SS clone. Probably not too many of them runnin around.
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