Black lip? Or a painted lip? That is the question..

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spooled240
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This should be interesting since I always have people telling me they like the new lip black and other people saying I should paint it red...it's the gracer lip btw.

any other ideas just post 'em and yeah that's a fly on my lip on the second pic, he must like the new lip LMAO



Just to give you an idea of what it looks like painted:


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Kckouki
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Paint that ****.

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hilux30
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it's too big to leave it black, paint it!!!!! If it was carbon fib. then it would look nice as is

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^

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assassin7420
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Im for painting also. A body shop should only charge 200 or so to spray it, If you cant do it your self.

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I think it looks nice either way, but maybe painting it would look a little better.

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adrianfromthecastle
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either paint it red, or paint your skirts black...

either way... if its not one thing or the other... you ruin your car's aesthetic lines.

I voted paint it.

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hilux30 wrote:it's too big to leave it black, paint it!!!!! If it was carbon fib. then it would look nice as is
I dunno about that... that kinda like telling a chuki guy to paint his Xenon lip... But the Kouki really should have a cleaner, more elegant look. Paint it...

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simmode1 wrote:
I dunno about that... that kinda like telling a chuki guy to paint his Xenon lip... But the Kouki really should have a cleaner, more elegant look. Paint it...
kinda, but also on the kouki JDM lip, it wraps around the "pillars" on the bumpers and stuff, and theres random spots of red on the back and all that

depending on the design of the lip, somtimes you can leave it black

for this one, you gotta paint it

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Paint that shiiiiiiiit. Looks kinda odd.

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brizanden
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paint ho, but is that practically the same as the oem one? i have yet to see the oem lip on a car yet.

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wynnEZ
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It does look a little odd, but I like the black alot.

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id say paint it. i like black lips when they are very low profile, but leaving that black looks kind of funny.

beautiful car btw

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daconkiftador
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paint it the same color as the car!

ERIC s.-14
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Black lip makes kouki look eviler. I like it.

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paint it, that thing looks gross.

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spooled240
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adrians_s13 wrote:either paint it red, or paint your skirts black...either way... if its not one thing or the other... you ruin your car's aesthetic lines.
true, but I don't care-it doesn't look bad at all on the white kouki.

brizanden, here's the k's lip on the jdm front bumper.

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i say keep it black:) when its painted the average person wouldn't notice you had a lip. To me it looks like one piece. Plus the black looks MEAN

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paint it, its too big to go unpainted

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brizanden
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thx for the pic... idk if i like it that much now tho...

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I would paint it if I were you. I had trouble deciding too, but I think I made the right decision:

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Driver11324 wrote:I would paint it if I were you. I had trouble deciding too, but I think I made the right decision:
you did

Paint it Red

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I'd go painted, it seems like it's a bit too big to be black and look good.

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I Think It Would Mess Up The " It's A Lip Not A Kit" Look.

But At The Same Time Aren't Honda People...

So 50/50 I Would Say.

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Tsukiko
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definitely paint it. less obtrusive.

Now if it were a piggy with a black lip, thats a bit different.

There are really too many variables case by case, but as complex a design as that lip is, it sticks out like a sore thumb atm. Make it flow. paint it.

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Paint it and also get fog lights to fill the holes.

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If you want to leave it black, get zenki skirts and two tone from the line on the front bumper down. Otherwise paint it.

got chub
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color match FTW that is unless you took your headlights apart and did black housings

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im just glad you ditched that home depot crap.

lip looks great. paint the part that wraps to the side of the bumper red... but the lip looks awesome black.

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painted and slammed ftw! cant wait to do a jdm bumer + lip 2


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