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Are you a 918 buyer/owner? Unless you are or you have connections with Porsche- timing your production with the PTS window is dicey at best. Not to throw water on your dreams, but most of us are denied PTS....
Anyone knows the name of the colors which i posted ? ^^^
Thanks
The top one (.1 997 gt3 RS) is 'RS Green', color code 2D8. It was a special color developed at first exclusively for the MY2007 gt3 RS. It has quite a bit of 'blue' tint in it. It's still available today via PTS...but it's now simply called 'Green'.
The next green one (.1 991 gt3 MY2014) we really don't yet know. It could be 'Viper', 'Signal Green 22S' or 'Green', all which are currently approved for PTS. All of these three colors are slightly different. We need confirmation from it's owner in Austria to know for sure. My guess, however, is 'Viper'.
Your final photo looks like a basic 'Guards Red' to me.
Originally Posted by 1198r
^ the difference in colour between gen 1 and 2 is due to gen 1 being oil based colour and gen 2 being water based colour.
Not so. Water-based paint has been used by Porsche since at least 1990, when the US Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 were put into practice. And it might have happened even earlier than that at Porsche. Solvent-based paints have not been used in the auto industry for decades now. All automotive paint, including solid colors like 'white' and 'guards red', have now a final coat of 'clear'. This used to be only done with 'metallics' in the good old days, but now it's done to all paint finishes. The unusual 'shine' in those photos, if any, is due to the lighting...and good photography!
09-01-2014, 05:48 PM
