original. That's for sure.

It's looking great so far.

 

it looks really nice from the pictures you posted so far, but it's a little over the top for a car thats meant for the track.

 

in for the final pics

 

Looks nice!! Post pics of finished product

 

I can't wait to see this finished product of this one. Looks very nice.

 

+1 for originality, I'm liking it so far...

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thanx you! people are always so picky and **** about impressing others on my350z that they are always scared to do what makes them happy... which is ashame, especially when the product looks great, such as yours

 

i like it. pretty sweet. cant wait to see finished pics!!

 

Not to burst your bubble or anything but the 7 coats of clear is a very bad choice if u ever decide to drive the car. That's WAY to thick and will eventually crack from normal driving conditions (even if you had them add a flex additive to it, which i bet they didn't). Besides, 7 coats of clear is no more shiny than 1 coat of clear. However you do need at least 2 coats of clear to acheive the proper amount of UV protection. Since you are going to have it sanded and buffed and poilished I would have gone with 3 inital coats of clear, then had it sanded, buffed, and polished at the end, leaving you with 2.2-2.5 coats of clear remaining. Doing this would have saved you a couple thousand easy!!

Also, you don't need to have the clear coat buffed each time you sanded it between coats. Buffing it brings back gloss, which you dont want if your going to spray more clear on it. All they needed to do was sand it to remove orange peel, then clean it, remask and spray the car again.

 

L O V E the red.

Hood seems a little over the top.

 

Similar colors of the Veilside Fortune RX7 (that I love so much)! I love the color choice, definantly looks very high class!

 

Original!? Hardly . . . remember the Fine Tuned 350Z?

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2682953/

 

I think it looks hot! Nothing wrong with making your NISMO show quality! The first thing that grabbed me with my NISMO was the looks! I would love to have a show quality car like that! Keep up the great job!

 

That looks nice as well but I like the darker red better obviously, I have honestly never seen this car before though.

 

You are apparently an auto body guy? Which completely makes you my hero! Anyway all those steps were done because I wanted them done they told pretty much everything you so eligantly explained for absolutely no reason what so ever but I wanted it done and I am the paying customer! P.S. It is not a definitely going to crack, there are all types of things that can happen to your paint/car even if it isn't a daily driver so to make a sorry attempt at trying to make me feel like I got ripped is just absolutely unneeded but thanks for your intelligent post!!!

 

id agree... i know much about body work, and i dont see why it would crack. people get shopping carts pushed into their cars, doors opened into body panels, and even fender benders--- all these cause dents in the car, but the paint (solely) is hardly ever affected. so i dont see how making a left turn to go into the drive-thru would cause his 1/4 panel to crack

 

Simply put, the thicker something is the less "bendable" it is (generally speaking). So, under normal driving conditions the body of a car flexes, along with the paint, so the 7 layers of clear (thick paint) is going to be less forgiving of the minor body flex, making it more suseptable to cracking.

 

Car looks kick *** excellent work.

 

Gibbs is correct.

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Looks good so far, I like the colors. Who's to say a race inspired car can't have a show quality paint job? There's isn't a rule book for this ****.

 

There are NO Rules in car building.. just dreamers, builders, and flamers... something like that lol....

OP decide on changing wheels or what?