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Photos of my car finally, with carbon fiber

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Old 02-11-07, 09:20 PM
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Default Photos of my car finally, with carbon fiber

I finally got some basic shots of my car today, I was actually doing a shoot for another car and model, but had some down time so I grabbed some quick shots of my own car

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Old 02-11-07, 09:23 PM
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Looks good.. Are those wheels 19's with fat-setup?
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nice photography and wheels. but unpainted carbon fiber lips aren't my thing.
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the profile on the tires i believe are 40 in front and 35 rear, staggered.

i've always liked the carbon fiber look, I used to not like it, but I started doing it when I was building hondas and such, then was sponsored by a company who provided me with my cf parts on my past car so it started to grow on me. I decided to carry that style of mine through to this new car.
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ive always liked the carbon fiber look as well- nice
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wow great backdrop man, I always wanted to take some pics in an industrial area but never got around to it. Great job and I personally like the CF lip the way it is..
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I think it would look better if you had matching side skirts and rear lip.
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nice looking car there man, love the backdrop
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thanks for the comments, yea it was a cement factory around here, we managed to convince the supervisors there to let us stay, probably helped we had a model with us, haha.

I will be adding some more cf accents soon as well to compliment the lip and even it out.
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mm
what camera and lenses?
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carbon is very out of place on that silver. You need more carbon to pull off that look.

Very unoriginal lip and wheels could be better. You carried civic style to your GS? ....
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Originally Posted by xtian
carbon is very out of place on that silver. You need more carbon to pull off that look.

Very unoriginal lip and wheels could be better. You carried civic style to your GS? ....
a little harsh there, esp for a newb, but we all have our opinions...thats why we're all here. I do, however, agree that more carbon for balance would be the way to go. I think that already in the works from the sound of it.

I bet a whole carbon lip/skirt/rear kit like a Wald lip kit style would be hot for a sporty look.

Great pics, by the way!

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nice background man! great pics
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camera is a D200 using 17-55 2.8 and 10.5 2.8 lenses

xtian - thank you but if you do read you'll notice I do have more carbon in the works to even the look out. Also I don't believe using carbon is just a honda thing, or "civic" style, like I mentioned its a style I have used in other cars, i'm not carrying a "honda" or "nissan" or whatever style, i'm carrying my style and personal taste to this car. But again hey, thanks for your opinion anyways and welcome to the board.

Thanks to everyone for the comments
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looks very nice if you ask me. good luck with the rest of the mods. nice pics too


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