Pearl ?

[s5uewf]

Has anyone done any work with Pearl on a 911/930?

I am thinking about a repaint and so far am considering one of two paths:
- one path is to repaint the current silver but add a purple or purple and blue pearl or metallic and pearl. I am thinking along the lines of a Diamond Blue Metallic type look but shifted just a tad toward the purple side of that shade. Thinking a purplish ghost pearl might look good...thoughts?

- one path is to go with a tangerine or phoenix red with an orange or red ghost pearl

Wondering if anyone has any experience with these types of shades and materials...maybe I am just asking for trouble and should stick with the standard DiaBlueMet or Tangerine?

It is a 930 so I am trying to find a tone that will bring out the curves.

[962porsche]

before you start to think about custom colors you 1st need to know about colors and how they effect each other . colors have a face tone and a flip tone just by add a pearl to a base color may not do what you think . the same goes for turning a none 3 stage color into a 3 stage color . at times pearls don't look good over a metallic color . just as candy colors don't always look good over a solid color . the 1st color or ground color has to work with the mid coat color .

[s5uewf]

Thanks. What I want to end up with if I go Tangerine, for example, would be a brighter orange base with a reddish orange "glow" on the curves from whatever viewpoint was taken. Thinking the pearl would provide that depth and glow.

If silver base, then I would want to end up with a purplish or blue/purple glow over the silver. Hoping again to accentuate the curves visually.

I find the regular silver to appear very "grayish" and flat interms of bringin out curves, in many types of light and if not extremely clean. Since I need to do some repaint/touch up anyway (hood chips, fender chips, side lower valance,...) I am trying to come up with a way to add some pop to the paint.

[onboost]

We did something similar to one of my previous turbos. We used a factory color, Meteor grey metallic and added pearl pigment to the base color. The pigment was sunset red by Ditztler, paint was Sikkens.

When finished the car looked grey, silver, or a light purple depending upon what kind of light you saw it in.

We also did another car in real candy apple red. Of course the hue of this can be adjusted based on the use of either a white, silver, or gold basecoat.

[s5uewf]

How did you like the Meteor Gray with Red pearl once complete?

I have done a former vehicle with candy red over gold bae and it turned out great - I really like getting paint with lots of depth.

By the way I really like the purple of your current 930 - very cool shade.

I hope to get to Summit Point for some DE's so you may see whatever I end up doing show up at the track one day next season.

[kinein]

i have a metallic pearl on my car

[s5uewf]

Yeah, I love that orange and can't wait to see your pics when you are done. Your pic's actually are part of the inspiration for me. I thought you orange pearl metallic looked so good, I started thinking maybe a bit brighter orange would still look as good but be unique at the same time. And that led me to this thread.

[kinein]

well thats cool to know i went through alot to find the right color i like the lambo colors alot, i almost went with the lambo green on the murcielago, but to let you know its a 3 stage paint, house of colors has a good selection of metallic pearls and what not. but ppg has the best paint i think, lambo has the best colors especially i believe they have a metallic blue i have some pics of metallic pearl lambos i can post later, good luck

[962porsche]

your best bet to finding a color you like is to look at color chips . all paint CO's have custom colors . house of kolors does have some good colors to pick from but there coatings are old technology with high cost . SEM offers there color horizons system its much cheaper in cost and new technology . you can mix it with other systems base colors or use there hole system . one of my businesses is a air brush shop and like i stated before you have to know what colors work with other colors or your spending alot of money doing spray outs to see just what the color will look like .

[kinein]

its called ocean blue metallic,

[kinein]

i agree you have to find something already out there, you want something you can color match for future scratches and touchups....lambo has many metallic pearl paint colors and its all ppg

[s5uewf]

Here is a link to a lambo orange pearl metallic. Nice color...not sure how it would look on a 930.


Ford Mustang Gta Fastback Lamborghini Orange Pearl Silver Metallic Opal Stripes Photo 2

[962porsche]

in my shop we only work on high end cars . if your looking for a spot on color match to cars like porsche , lamborghini and many others you should use what the car makers are . that would be glasurit . glasurit has real spray out chips using real paints so what you see is just what you will get when you spray it . your jobber (paint store)will have the color max chips to look at . there are no top car makers using any other brand any more . ferrari used ppg for 6 years but they stopped some years back because of coating problems . last week we just fixed a delam 355 paint at ferrari in ppg . that was not the 1st one we have repaired with that broblem . they now are back with glasurit . the color oceano blu met does not exist . my old murcieago was that color blue the color number is LZ5D . the newer lambo's all have VW/AUDI color numbers . the color orange L0E2 has the name of Arancio Burealis Pearl it was used for the years of 2004 to 2007 . there is no lombo color with the name of orange pearl silver matallic opel . all there color names are in italian just like ferrari and lancia . there are many colors with pearls in them that does not make it a pearl color . what makes a true pearl color is the use of a pearl mid coat .

[kinein]

mine isnt the arancio borealis, i dont like the pearl in it,
i have the arancio atlas mic 2ct, as i recall i believe the borealis is on the gallardo and the murcielago has the arancio atlas mic 2ct and the arancio ishtar, i actually went to lambo dealer in san diego to look at the color in person they had the paint chips there of there colors.....

and i agree about the orange pearl silver metallic opel that isnt a lambo color........ also the arancio atlas mic 2 has the silver pearl in it.....the arancio borealis doesnt its a different color pearl

Lamborghini cars, the enthusiast site

[kinein]

Lamborghini Paint codes from PPG

[s5uewf]

I think the link is to a Lambo orange with Opal silver stripes. It is two colors, not one. I think the way it is written makes it sound like one color when it is two: Lambo orange with Opal silver stripes.

[onboost]

Originally Posted by s5uewf

How did you like the Meteor Gray with Red pearl once complete?

I have done a former vehicle with candy red over gold bae and it turned out great - I really like getting paint with lots of depth.

By the way I really like the purple of your current 930 - very cool shade.

I hope to get to Summit Point for some DE's so you may see whatever I end up doing show up at the track one day next season.

The Meteor w/the red pearl was very cool.. it had burgundy interior and that kinda added to the red hue. I haven't seen the car in a while (I think it's in vermont or N. Hampshire) and I understand it has black interior now.

The candy red car was done over a silver base for more of a "shimmer" affect if you will. That paint was House of Color, which as 962porsche stated is old technology. It was what was available then as that candy car was done in the early to mid 90's.. and paint technology like everything else has come a long way!

Glad you like that current car but it's actually a factory color, Diamond Blue Metallic, not purple. Again, with a burgundy interior (or whats lefgt of it) and I think interior color affects the perception of hue to the eye. I've seen this color with both gray & Linen interiors and the color then looks more grey or silver blue.

Where/when did you see my car?

[s5uewf]

onboost, I may well have confused you with someone else on the forum. Either here or on Dorki I thought I saw a picture of your car that was a bright purple metallic color. Sorry if I confused you.

[onboost]

Maybe not.. as I do have a friend with a purple 86 930 that I have posted pictures of in the past. Its a pretty wild car between the color, the huge speedline wheels and the twin turbo 930 motor. The color on that one is actually a factory Porsche color call Amethyst. It's my understanding that it was a euro only color during the 90's.

[onboost]

Also,

Here are a couple of ornages for you....

First up is House of Color Orange pearl on my 74 FLH...




And second is a factory Porsche color which I don't know the name of but I've seen it on 3 cars.. this one which is a factory slantnose, another 930 that I think I saw in Fla, and of course one was advertised in a Porsche ad many years ago.