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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 08:36 PM
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Getting my 95 coupe painted on saturday I got a type r style lip for it question is paint it same color as car or semigloss black??? I also have some spoon mirrors for it too, think I should paint those also? Here is a pic of car (w/o lip) help me decide.
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 08:44 PM
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if the car is gonna be black..just leave it be
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:11 PM
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leave it, unless you gonna repaint the whole body with different color
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:49 PM
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im repainting mycar black also and i was putting the same lip and mirrors and i was wondering if i shouldpaint them to match.

and i found this pic in the eg thread

and the lip looks good painted
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Old Jun 23, 2004 | 09:53 PM
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paint everythin the same color as ur car.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 12:46 AM
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u don't need to paint either the lip or the mirrors...peace
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 04:03 AM
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paint it the same color as ur ride
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 04:28 AM
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This is a close one! Decisions, decisions??? Any pics of black car w/o them painted? I searched for pics but the key words I used just brought up classifieds. If you find any or have any post them up
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 04:42 AM
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paint everything. but i hate the type R style lip....they fit like *** on the EG's IMO, unless you are a lucky one and get a good fitting one.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 05:37 AM
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Paint it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that a CF hood I spy? Paint that too.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 07:59 AM
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youll be sorry when the paint chips off your lip..... paint the mirrors. not lip.

that or neither.

been there done that.
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 08:03 AM
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color match it all
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:02 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xdjoynerx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">youll be sorry when the paint chips off your lip.....
been there done that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thats exactly what I was thinking... any pics of unpainted on a black car
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Old Jun 24, 2004 | 09:26 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by pReStOcHaNgO &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">paint everythin the same color as ur car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 06:46 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by pReStOcHaNgO &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">paint everythin the same color as ur car.</TD></TR></TABLE>
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 07:57 AM
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Paint everything. One color cars looks much cleaner.
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 09:19 AM
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paint the lip and mirrors
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 09:25 AM
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dont use the lip its kinda rice
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 10:12 AM
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nice clean ride.
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 10:15 AM
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I didn't have the lip or the Spoon mirrors painted on my gsr. It looked just fine.
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 06:28 PM
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Well all thanks for the feed back. Got the mirrors painted but not the lip or sideskirts... so we will see!!! Should have the car back on Tuesday, been almost a week now and boy I sure miss her
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Old Jul 1, 2004 | 07:03 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by pReStOcHaNgO &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">paint everythin the same color as ur car.</TD></TR></TABLE>
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