ok decided to go powder on my a-arms and spend the money on a cool graphic but here my question..............will a gloss black hold up or is silver the best, kinda would like to go the black but i read in the chrome thread any color turns gray so whats your guys thoughts this is another one of those decisions that plaque your mind

Almost chrome powdercoat

Why not START with gray????

in the chome a-arms thread it said the sand after a while gives any color powder coat a gray color im wondering if this is true because i wanted to go black on the front arms but if it is then ill go silver

They have a color called silver vain that is silver with black vain and is real cool.
I have a friend that has it and it still looks the same after a couple seasons. Looks
a lot better than reg. silver.
LATER DON~~~

I have a silver hammer on my manx, I have never been in sand with it, but I think it would hold up really well, it is textured, and isnt all shiny, also on my car I am chroming the suspension but putting clear vinyl tape on the leading edges where it is exposed to sandblasting, here is a pic of the manx, hopefully you can see the color, it was done at ECP in El Cajon, the pic is a close up of the steering wheel, but you can see the frame in the background.

thanks don i look into that sounds pretty cool does any one know if the black would get sandblasted to gray????

thats sweet looking ian

Thanks, if you would like a close up shot in the sunlight let me know, I can take a pic today and post it around 2 or 3 ish

ya thatd be great thanks

I got silver-vein pc'ed on my a-arms on my Z400, shure its not the same as a buggy, but for not paying anything for it being pc'ed they look sick, i like them, and i think if i get anything else it will be silver-vein, o hand mine have no clear coat but they pc is very think as it is

don you dont have a pic of that silver vain do ya???? or anybody thanks brett

here is from about 7 feet away

here is from about 1 foot away

here is the closest I could get and still have the camera focus

Black is a definite no go. My old car was black and showed every little scratch. I think they would look bad really fast. One of the cars in our group is silver vein all over and looks cool. Seams like it will hold up well too.

Matt

the guy I talked to at ECP said that the coating I got holds up really well and you cant see nicks and scratches, My front and back bumper are the same, I didnt want rocks and stuff making it look bad in a couple weeks, so far so good, I have put 300 miles on the car and still looks great.

thanks ian thats a cool lookin powder looks like it would hold up

when grant from funco took me for a demo ride in a couple of his cars, gils car is black, and the front was faded pretty good from being sandblasted from following. the chrome arms were also dull.

thats a good point alan

all the vein colors can be candied over to make any color you want, i have seen two chopper style bikes one with candy red and one with candy blue over silver vein and they look pretty nice, saw a nice patio furniture set with candy green over gold vein which looked pretty good too.