paint for a red 1996 vfr

looking for some paint for my second 1996 vfr

 

OEM decals might not be available but you can check https://www.xtremedecals.com for aftermarket replicas that are good quality.



Rollin

 

The Colorite is good stuff and matches the OEM Honda paint. The OEM paint has faded. Red is fugitive. Best IMO is get enough paint to paint all the the cowling elements or better yet to paint the entire bike.

In that scenario, Colorite is not the better choice. Most of the major paintmakers carry automotive grade paints and coatings of high quality and thousands of colors and hues of red.

 

I just ordered a full set of decals from www.honda-decals.com, I have not received them yet, will let you know how they look. My paint shop had trouble matching the honda color on the tank to the factory color code with Deltron, he suggested putting a House of Kolor red over white base coat, then you have to put pearl in the clear, attached decals and more clear. The paint was going to cost about $250 (red's expensive) , so I'm taking the panels to a body shop, where they'll match the color ( I hope).

 

House of Kolor is good stuff too. Way pricy as compared to the "standard" lines made by the majors. Great for really spiffy custom paint jobs and the quality is excellent. To see whati available in "standard" colors be ready to spend a couple of hours looking in color sample books going back to Henry Ford black for Model T's. IOW there is shitload of stuff to choose from

Many body and paint shops (you have to ask) have different levels of painters, equipment and stock on hand. Fender bender repair and painting a $75,000 hot rod are two different animals. Included in the more advances shops are constant training and importantly to the bike folk, on premises mix stations. with amounts of additives (pearls-metallic-candy glazes, base pigments ect., that can be mixed in amounts specific to do the job at hand.

Like as said above, red is expensive and if ya only need a half pint why buy a quart?

The trick to most of this is finding the right shop, the right painter and finding out if the painter (gender free here so nobody gets their pampers in a bunch) will paint bike parts.

 

I can remember ordering a few new panels for my 97 (red) VFR a number of years ago and even though the bike was not that old I noticed a couple things. First was that the color on the bike did not quite match the new pieces from Honda, likely due to the paint on the bike fading slightly, and second was that the color match between the new pieces from Honda were not an exact match either. The difference between the 2 new pieces was actually quite noticeable when placed side by side. My guess would be that the two parts were painted on 2 separate occasions and the mixture was slightly different.

As BadBilly suggested, it might be worth it to paint all the pieces in order to ensure the paint match is exact. Also as BB mentioned, make sure you find a shop and painter in particular, that is accustomed to painting bike parts as with all the compound curves they are difficult to prep and paint.

Just my 2 cents.

 

I don't think my paint is faded at all is has only 9000 miles and is a two owner bike that was always stored inside, the bike was my friends that I got at insurance auction cheap, its a long story, see my other threads,
heres the bike at the end of this video , im going to check BASF Monday and see if they have a match, if I have color code with all the mixing ratios we can adjust things to get a perfect match,
just did a quick video instead of pics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zcksiEhQXk

 

That's a great shop you have there. Lots of projects in the works. That 55 TBird must be one that was sold in Canada. Yellow wasn't available here. With that sort of skills you have in your shop, getting the paint right on a bike should be no problem.

Is your booth temp and humidity controlled and have you converted to laminar flow and forced air hoods? We had to take out the waterfalls years back. The latest thing here is hoods with two way comms.

 

we just got this shop 4 months ago, we had 4000 sq feet and this one has 12000, with the old shop you would have no room to move anything around, the booth will be going and getting something newer, the 55 thunderbird is from quebec, the only cars in the shop other then the bike that are mine is the vw beetle and the 1966 mustang fastback

 

Great! Since at least some of your restoration work can be done on bikes ie painting. Some of the guys up your way could be shooting you some bike business. My BMW is yellow too. The color is from a Toyota.

Does your new shop have a mix station? Have you folks up there in Canada required to use strictly HVLP for all over repaints?

My own booth is small. I have access to a state of the art booth in Seattle that ran close to a million USD. All powdercoating is sent out to a commercial house after initial prep.