Baking headlamps or paint thinner on hamburgers
 

Here's the hilarious result (I was warned) of the front of the Z from turning the chrome to red-chrome:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7073/8...5ec92caa_b.jpg

So, should I:
1) Get some paint thinner and remove the red? Or, bake the headlamps and:
2) Black Carbon Fiber with Red-Chrome shrouds
3) Black Carbon Fiber with Red-Chrome shrouds and strip
or
4) Black Chrome with Red-Chrome shrouds and strip

Ref:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7297/8...1c8e2f7f_b.jpg

The red badges in back look pretty good; they go with the red of the tail lights. Try the same up front. Leave the hamburger red and do the headlights. I vote for the last one but only because I don't like cosmetic-only CF. If you still don't like the red hamburger after doing the lights, you can go back to chrome. YMMV

My buddy's are saying the first option because not too much red. I agree, and I agree that the CF would look a little off. Black Chrome and Red Shrouds should have been an option.

Polish the paint...

EDIT: On topic, the first option with black and red shrouds looks best. Not a fan of painting the strip too, keep it simple!

off topic a bit, I just pulled a ton of tape off the front, and I was going to polish it today until I saw the damage a dump truck did. Over 50 chips to the front and about 10-25 on each side when a dump truck blew it's tire on the interstate about 1/2mi ahead of me. The vibration caused the rocks to go everywhere and traffic was kicking them around. I was soo mad. I'm probably going to bypass polishing this year and file a claim with insurance.

Yeah, the strip would be a bit much

Edit: Here's black chrome without the red strip:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7294/8...f2060620_b.jpg

Black chrome with just red shrouds would be awesome. What kind of paint are you suing for the chrome?

I'll use the smoke anodized metalcast most likely.

Reference1.

Reference2:
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...n/photo-32.jpg


Duplicolor also makes a 'Smoke' which might work (non anodized I believe). might have to clean my testing candle stick holders and see the results of each. Reference

Love the black chrome idea, but no red in the lights. Flat black shrouds.