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Ok, upto the stage of my rebuild that involves giving things a bit of a colour infusion.

Bayside Blue's have been done to death on RB26's now... whilst its a good colour and would go perfect with my car... i dont wanna use it.

So, i need ideas for the plenum and rocker covers... bearing in mind that my car is Navy Blue so things like orange/red/yellow really dont work too well with it.

Anyone have any idea what colour should could look at?

Im stuck on this one :(

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Ash, Ash, Ash...

The colour of your covers should compliment and offset the colour of the car.

Purple Golgo with gold motor looked hawt. A midnight purple cover wouldn't have had the same impact.

Gayside blue wouldn't suit at all - too tonally wrong.

I ask this...

What colour are your calipers or other 'hilight' items on the car?

This would be a good colour to match.

Personally, I'd go with a deep red finish on your calipers and engine (similar to an R34 motor) - will stand out against the navy blue and even look good with the green stripe down the side from when you backed into your neighbour's car ;)

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You might have a nice car yet.

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I reckon the Champain colour of the NUR spec 34's would look pretty hot

(light gold-almost silver)?

maybe the same mustang red as Al's R33?

or a very light (almost silver) metallic lime sort of colour...?

I'll look around for some colours to post so you know what I'm on about.

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Hmm... deep red actually, wouldnt look so bad now i think about it.

Although it wont match with the green rear 1/4 panel for long :D

Im changing brakes this year anyhow to AP's or similar, so for now i wont worry about colour-matching them.

Although some sorta silver has me thinking over it aswell.

Champagne colour, didnt think of that

Gotta decide by the end of the week too as the motor is nearing completion ;)

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Crikey Ash, two threads in such a short space of time that are both useful and are longer than 3 words, now I am lost for words!

Depends if the engine is going to be a focal point of the car, i.e the bonnet spending its days lifted at shows and not because the engine has caught fire. If so, use the engine as the base and use the rest of the body to pick details out. For example door strips/door handles/badges the corresponds with the engine. The red in James' pic is very nice and perhaps a shade even similar to Al's GTST. Metallic Morello Cherry is a personal fave but have no examples sadly. :D Look forward to seeing the finished product anyway. ;)

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Plan is to have the motor stand out from the engine bay itself.

Im not worried about "un-due" attention at all as the motor is essentially factory so ive got no worries with the law on that one... so it can be a little outlandish and it doesnt matter.

Being the car does attend shows once every so often and ive got some other "things" happening later on to compliment the "show" side of things.

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