hey guys, yesterday i made my first mods, and i think they turned out pretty sweet! Although my car is nothing compared to most of yours, i'm proud of it. i'm only 18, i'm in college, and i work a minimum wage job, so i'm pretty pleased with what i've done lol.


BEFORE:







AFTER: i painted the rims, installed clearcorners, and i put amber LED's in the footwells to match the amber color of my speedometer n stuff (but i don't have pictures of that).









PS: I used plasti-dip paint, which is good because i can peel it off and go back to OEM whenever i want. I also plan on painting my brake calipers soon, but i need some suggestions on what color i should use!

Let me know what you guys think about this stuff (good, bad, ugly, rice, etc..), and make any comments or suggestions you would like. Sorry for the terrible quality of the pictures, i shot them all with my iphone because i don't have a digital camera, nor would i like to spend money to buy one lol.

 

I liked your rims before u painted them.. I'm in the process of returning my car to a stockish look..

 

mine had really bad curb rash, like all the way around some of the rims. my pictures are just too bad of quality to see the rash. i'll post some of the rims before i painted them.

 

Looks good. I like the idea of being able to remove the paint, never hurts to change it up a little. Some tint would go good w/ the black wheels...

 

BEFORE:

 

thanks, and i agree, but i'm not sure how dark i want it tinted lol. But i also got a nismo front bumper, i just need to get it installed and painted. I'm getting the ducts on the new bumper painted black, and i'm going to paint my grill black too, so i think it's all going to look really nice together

 

...previous owner was female...? lol j/k

Oh yeah, I forgot about a black grill, good idea!!

 

I wouldn't paint the calipers. It's rice like. If you do, paint it black or silver.

 

no, unfortunately not. previous owner was a doctor that lived in the city and this was his daily. and unfortunately he's my older brother... lol. I just hope he doesn't treat his new car this bad..

 

what do you think about color matching it to the body color? (DG)

 

It would be kind of a paint in the *** to get an exact match.

 

Looks better now that I see your rims before.. haha!!

 

I bought my G used with some pretty bad curb rash too. Lol coincidentally the previous owner was a doctor too

 

i heard paint places like sherwin williams uses some kind of computer color matching system that uses a paint sample to make the exact copy of whatever color you give them and computes the exact color combinations to make it. it couldn't hurt to try.. i don't know if the paint they make would be able to handle the heat that brakes and tires generate though. :/

 

haha, stupid doctors... if only they took care of their cars as well as they take care of their patients!!