1gb rear end swap...what to do about paint? I have some ideas...just want input.

[Shane Sawatzki]

So today I went ahead with my 1gb rear end swap, And the car will be getting painted in the jan-feb months, I was thinking bottom trim black middle OEM colour, and the roof black as stock...I want to throw in a little 2 tone body colour, like alot of talons came with say, blue body, silver trim, or black body, silver trim , etc...I dont know what would go with champagne, I thot the contrast between black trim, then champagne body colour in the middle, then the roof/ spoiler etc black again... a sort of black, champagne, black effect.... I want to keep the original colour as I dont want it to look goofy under the hood or in the door jams.  Pics to come...

[Shane Sawatzki]

oh...i tinted these tailights too...with 2 less coats so they arent BLACK...










Annnnnd just a shot of under the hood recently...

[Ivan Josipovic]

1g's are starting to grow on me. I'm not a big fan of the rims and low profile tires but the rest looks great 

[Matt Mann]

Looks pretty good man, I was eventually going to do that to mine but never did.
Hey Shane do you have your old tinted tails?

[Matt Mann]

For simplicity sake, I would keep the paint in stock format

[Shane Sawatzki]

Looks pretty good man, I was eventually going to do that to mine but never did.
Hey Shane do you have your old tinted tails?

yes I do...but I dunno if im going to get rid of em or not... my buddy wants em for 50 bucks...but I dunno if im even going to get rid of em...

[Shane Sawatzki]

For simplicity sake, I would keep the paint in stock format

No doubt I am going to keep it MAINLY champagne...but I want to add a sorta custom look to it...just the very boddy 5 inches where the turbo allwheel drive 16v dohc is, all around that trim...and the rest champagne and the roof black how it is....

[Joliesa Lepp]

My god.. that looks like sex. (I love the 1gb ass.) As for paint, I like the idea of the stock-ish 1ga trim, but I've never seen a 1gb with that sort of paint combination. It would definately look custom... not sure if that would be the way I would do it, mainly because the trims/lines don't match up.... I'd like to see the end result. So far, Looks awesome.

[Shane Sawatzki]

My god.. that looks like sex. (I love the 1gb ass.) As for paint, I like the idea of the stock-ish 1ga trim, but I've never seen a 1gb with that sort of paint combination. It would definately look custom... not sure if that would be the way I would do it, mainly because the trims/lines don't match up.... I'd like to see the end result. So far, Looks awesome.

either way, if i do just go from the mirrors down, all champagne its going to be OEM champange with a silver flake in it. so it will be custom in 2 ways. 1) silver metallic flake champagne paint, AND 2) be one of the few 1gb rears in CHAMPAGNE. iv never seen a 92-94 in champange, i dont think they came in that colour...

[Joliesa Lepp]

I think it'll look hawt because I've never seen a champagne 1gb aswell.

(Pretty sure you're right that they never came in that colour after '91. We were deprived.)

[Shane Sawatzki]

I think it'll look hawt because I've never seen a champagne 1gb aswell.

(Pretty sure you're right that they never came in that colour after '91. We were deprived.)

lol that and a carbon fibre hood, and carbon wrapped headlight covers...*drools*

[Shane Sawatzki]

just remembered something id thot id thro out there.....during the whole bumper swap etc...i did NOT break a SINGLE bolt...none where very rusty...they all were rusty coloured but where all still solid and did not strip or break....i guess my car is pretttty clean. lol

[Matt Mann]

bump for the champagne!

[Zach Holt]

stick with the stock colour it will be a pricey swap for it to look good.

Ps jdm tails come off your car?

[Shane Sawatzki]

stick with the stock colour it will be a pricey swap for it to look good.

Ps jdm tails come off your car?

what do u mean jdm tails?