IMO: the blue is too random....
at least at this point, but i dont see a common goal (like the top half or bottom half to be eventually painted) just looks like you got ahold of the easier pieces to take off and painted them. i did that... it grew old real quick and did it all over again
but as long as you like it, im happy for you
Tacky.
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Im getting ready to start on the rest on my interior, dash and console, my mirror was kind of a test piece to see if i could get it to turn out smooth and get rid of the textured look, it doesnt look to bad i dont think.
Tacky, why is it tacky, because its blue and different??
don't take it to heart man people hate when it's not up to their standards even if they don't kow you.... it's ok it's different just not my style though...
You know what man I love it for your origonality, it doesn't matter what all people say man as long as you like it that's what matters, and I'm glad to see someone go out of the ordinary and go with blue lips! I'm going with Pink Lemonade lips on mine and Purple Haze paint when it's all done! Good Job man!
I thank everyone for there opinions i wanted them thats why i posted my pics, but im not one of these people that still live at home with mommy, im married with 3 kids and a brand new $1500 a month house so i cant go out and buy whatever i want when i want it, making sure my 3 kids are taken care of is more important to me than a $1500 suspension or a body kit yes i wanna get that stuff but i cant afford it right now hell i have a hard time putting $15 in gas in my car,so i do what i can when i can, thats why im doin the small stuff, and im proud of my car ive done all the work to my car everything my self i havent had anyone else do anything to my car, i feel very blessed to have what i have. I had to give up my 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass that only had 53,000 miles on it and had edelbrock performer RPM intake cam and 750 cfm carb, bored 40 over, headers, flow master exhaust and 18in american racing torque thrust 2 rim, new paint & and a new vinyl top ,it only got @ 4 or 5 mph i couldn't afford to keep gas in it, so for the good of my family i sold it and got my sunfire it was a big change for me to go from my very fast cutlass to my sunfire. Like I said before thank you for you opinions good or bad i wanted them thats why i posted my pics
not to bad of pics and i like that color blue its not to bright but not to dark
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that is just not right
we've all been through that phase with our cars.
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so are you eventually doin more blue on the car itself, because it does look kinda random. i don't think anybody was sayin to get everything done, mainly because no one knows the goal. trust me, i know about the money thing, but if got bigger plans for color scheme you didn't state that, you just posted pics and pretty much said "here it is". if you wanted opinions, don't get so tore up about it. as long as you like it, opinion doesn't matter. hell maybe when you're done, everyone will take it back.
sorry didnt mean to sound hate full i was just sayin. i wasnt tryn to piss anyone off or offend anyone. i do have alotta plans for the car this is just a start like i said its a money thang
I think you were doing fine until you painted the grills in the front end. And I'm not trying to be hateful, but not having a lot of money for modifications is not an excuse to have tacky modifications on your car. Which like I said, no hate intended, but blue grills don't like right on anything, maybe possibly a blue car, but even that is pushing it.
I'm glad you take care of your family though, a lot more people in this world would do well to follow your example.
Not feelin' it. As said above, as it sits.. it looks like it was randomly done. It doesn't flow very well.
MAN is my car really that UGLY that is tacky, i was thinkin it was lokking pretty good, not the best sunfire ive ever seen, but i thought it alright. I guess i was wrong. anybody wanna buy some tacky rim
I would stick to just the paint on the valve cover. It looks tits IMO. The wiring loom and mirror are to and grill insert are to much for me. You know how sometimes less is more meaning less would look better. Perhaps you could leave the mirror black and put up a tint bannor if you wanted it to stand out some from the front. Just dont do a tint banner that takes up 1/4 of your winsheild as those look horrid. It is all about tring not to over do it.
The problem with trying to do blue or red is sometimes you wind up with many shades the color and they kind of clash. Such as the wire loom intake cuoplers and valve cover. I would go with a nuetral color such as black or silver or just leave it stock in cases like that.
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Wade Jarvis wrote:I would stick to just the paint on the valve cover. It looks tits IMO. The wiring loom and mirror are to and grill insert are to much for me. You know how sometimes less is more meaning less would look better. Perhaps you could leave the mirror black and put up a tint bannor if you wanted it to stand out some from the front. Just dont do a tint banner that takes up 1/4 of your winsheild as those look horrid. It is all about tring not to over do it.
The problem with trying to do blue or red is sometimes you wind up with many shades the color and they kind of clash. Such as the wire loom intake cuoplers and valve cover. I would go with a nuetral color such as black or silver or just leave it stock in cases like that.
Thanks for the suggestion i took of all my bright blue wire loom and looks much better thanks. I have another valve cover i was gonna paint it a different color besides blue, i was gonna go with black or silver and then paint the ignition coil and module cover in the middle blue
Chris Heckman wrote:I thank everyone for there opinions i wanted them thats why i posted my pics, but im not one of these people that still live at home with mommy, im married with 3 kids and a brand new $1500 a month house so i cant go out and buy whatever i want when i want it, making sure my 3 kids are taken care of is more important to me than a $1500 suspension or a body kit yes i wanna get that stuff but i cant afford it right now hell i have a hard time putting $15 in gas in my car,so i do what i can when i can, thats why im doin the small stuff, and im proud of my car ive done all the work to my car everything my self i havent had anyone else do anything to my car, i feel very blessed to have what i have. I had to give up my 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass that only had 53,000 miles on it and had edelbrock performer RPM intake cam and 750 cfm carb, bored 40 over, headers, flow master exhaust and 18in american racing torque thrust 2 rim, new paint & and a new vinyl top ,it only got @ 4 or 5 mph i couldn't afford to keep gas in it, so for the good of my family i sold it and got my sunfire it was a big change for me to go from my very fast cutlass to my sunfire. Like I said before thank you for you opinions good or bad i wanted them thats why i posted my pics
dude... nobody said your car sucks because it doesnt have an expensive body kit. But being low on cash doesnt mean paint everything. You can do tasteful mods on a cheap budget. Or better yet, save money and do what you really want to do. Lack of money is never an excuse for tacky mods. No Mods are cheaper than tacky mods, and typically look better. I'm married and have a mortgage too. I havn't painted every random part of my car that I know how to take off. I really like the engine bay, minus the wire loom. The rims arent bad if the rest of the blue disapears. I'd say keep the rims and valve cover painted and make everything else black/silver, and it would look really clean again.
LOL Remembers me when I painted my whole fu˘king dash yellow when the car was indigo blue....
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i like everything about the car......the minus the blue grill....everything else is tastefully done....great start.
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I like the rims but the wire loom, painted grille, drums, and mirror = rice.
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thank you everyone for there advice i really appreciate it, now that i have looked back at what everyone has said and really stopped and looked at my car i can see what some of you are talking about. i have removed the bright blue wire loom it does look better. im getting ready to paint another valve caver in black or silver and do the center coil cover in blue so theres not so much blue & paint my dash , center console and door panels. i wanna stick with silver and black but i wanna but some blue in there to, the rings around by HVAC vents and rear view mirror are blue, any suggestions or ideas that would help me out. again thank you very much for your input. I think i said all that other stuff because i was just frustrated because i had spent so much time doing that stuff i thought it was looking pretty good & its not the reaction i thought i was gonna get, but some of you are right and i apologize for some of the stuff i said. every one on this site is a great help
hey man couple questions
1. did you paint the wheels? or buy them w/ the blue lip?
2. If you painted them what color is it? Is it HOK Blue?
Im a big fan of your wheels and am thinking of painting/powdercoating mine the same way.
like everyone else said the blue grills are a lill off but still look ok. Wire loom is ok cause you are proally the only one whos gonna see it.
the main thing to remeber is that its your car and if you like it, thats all that matters.
Wen painting the dash sutle lil accents are ok, but if its everything you can take off in a 5 min period then its kinda like wtf, even if you spent xxx amount of time doin it.
btw
here is what the black valve cover and blue center will look like(HOk tru blue pearl)
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