I think yellow caliepers would look best. Look up some Porsches. Red is too "normal" I think. But it's your car of course. She will still look great either way. Just keep the options open maybe

 

Yellow would look good on smb, the only issue is yellow looks pretty bad with gold wheels so that would prevent me from using my other set.

 

You decide to sell me your bumper yet? lol

 

I'm gonna get some quotes from a couple shine vendors to see what I'm looking at as far as how much a new amuse front end will cost shipped. I'm still trying to decide if I want to gamble on how a new one will fit since I paid a body shop to install my current one and it fits perfect.

 

I def wouldn't do gold wheels/yellow calipers for sure. Forgot to post that.

 

I think you should stick with the bumper you have man (v2 is always classic) as the the amuse needs a lot more going on for it to look good (big wing, intercooler, etc).

 

Yeah agreed. I've seen it before and it just clashes too much. If I knew I would stick with black/dark wheels yellow would probably be my top choice for caliper color, but I get bored of wheels too easily.

This is a good point. And since this car will most likely never be turbo'd and I hate big wings, I'll need to keep this in mind. Unless...

....intarf00ler

 

For the guys who suggested gold wheels, this is my car with my old set of wheels which unfortunately I'm putting up for sale shortly.

 

Is it just me or are there different lugs on the wheels? On the rear wheel I see 3 blue lugs and 2 silver lugs and on the front I see 2 blue, 2 silver and 1 black.

 

Ummmm.... this looks PERFECT!

 

Responding to the Topic question ~ You could be missing both your eyeballs!

 

IMO...

If you go amuse you'll need to change your whole set up b/c amuse and nismo don't go together.

Canards - won't do much for dark colored cars but will help in the look department but not necessary. It looks better in a two tone theme.

Asuka hatch would add a nice touch to the rear.

Gold wheels, no. Leave your wheels alone.

Headlights - leave them alone, do not black them out. It's better to have different color accent to the car than to go completely one color.

Brakes - oem brembo is ideal. Light blue would work too (rotora blue) but prefer yellow. I'd look for something other than Akebono... like wilwood, stoptech, rotora etc. but it's what ever fits your budget.

Your car looks good as is... if you want it to look really aggressive, just slam it but I don't recommend this because race car.

What coils are you on?

 

^^ all good advice right there. I have H&R coilovers, and in that pic the rear is actually one turn of the collar from being at the lowest setting. Front can go lower but its already slightly raked as is.

I've got a BBK on the way so after that's installed I'm going to figure out the next step from there. Most people are saying leave it alone after that, I feel like I should probably listen lol

 

^ what bbk did you go with and what color?

 

Red akebono with stoptech rotors

 

 

Decided to finally update this thread after a few new parts for whoever is interested in my build progress

New parts since how the car appeared in the original post:
Akebono front and rear brakes w/ Stoptech drilled and slotted rotors (SS lines as well)
Seibon TS hood
Aerocatch hood pins
Swapped out my old muteki lugs for Project Kics Leggdura lugs (waited 3 months for these damn things after placing my order!)

I really need to just buy a nice camera. Pics taken with my phone. Enjoy..



Closer look at the hood pin location/orientation










As always, comments welcome

Edit: And just to comment on the Aerocatch pins because they deserve it, these things are awesome. I was more than impressed by the build quality of them; They feel very strong and durable. These are the latest revision of the original design which comes with a nut plate for the underside of each pin, making it easier to install because you're dealing with one piece rather than 6 individual nuts. Definitely worth the price.

 

Looks great, obviously more aggressive with the hood.

IMO the polished lips are taking away from the perception of aggressiveness you are looking for. Obviously epic wheels, I just think that is what is holding you back. Polished lips with off color faces dont universally work well.

 

Nice job on updating the thread btw!

 

I somewhat agree, but just to clarify the lips on those wheels are machined, however they do come out much brighter/vibrant on camera than in person, essentially simulating what you're talking about in pictures but in person they don't grab the eye as much. I do appreciate though that this color combo is rare for ce's. I believe this is the only finish for the ce28n that comes with a machined lip as all other finishes with a machined lip exist only on the le28n version of this wheel.

I am not a fan of polished lips in general to be honest, despite my last set of wheels having big polished lips. I grew tired of them I guess. If these wheels ever get damaged to the point of requiring a recoat, I am definitely going with one color for the face and lips, mostly likely gloss black or a dark gloss silver/gun metal (similar to Volk's titanium gunmetal color). At which point the door handles will be painted black or color matched. Currently the machined lips are the only thing keeping me from painting them as they tie together pretty good I think.

Thanks for the feedback