Help with wheel colour choice

[m1tch]

Hi everyone,

I am going to be fitting some OEM FD wheels to my car (just noticed that I have an FD clutch and half the bridge ported engine is FD lol) anyhow, they are stock size but an 1" wider, so I get more grip for not much money, plus the 16s will mean its more geared for acceleration rather than looks.

Anyhow, as I don\'t need to fit them straight away I am going to clean them up and then paint them, was thinking about these colours (please remember that my car is gunmetal gray):

Ideas:

White
Matt black
Sprayed silver
OEM (nothing added)
Japanese gold (dark gold)

I am wanting my FC to look almost OEM (the only aftermarket bodykit I have on it is my Eibo sleek spoiler that is colour matched)

I was thinking japanese gold, which is darker than the Subaru gold, I have a photo of an FC running R32 GTR rims in dark gold and it looks good (they were the other rims I was thinking of getting)

I was kinda against black rims as it looks like you have no rims, so I thought maybe gloss black rims? It gives a bit of accent?



What colours do you think I should try? I would love to have gold centres and a silver lip, but the FD rims don\'t lend themselves to having a 2 tone like that.

[Lacey]

Japanese dark gold! Should have made the thread into a Poll! Edit it quick before your 10 minutes are up

[TiddlesRX7]

First off don\'t forget to buy some spacers. I had some FD wheels a while back in white. They looked cool enough but they didn\'t fit the front without spacers. The rears needed spacing out too so they suited the fronts.

I do like the Japanese gold colour but I think if I was you I\'d go with a lighter colour as your car is dark enough.


Ade

[m1tch]

First off don\'t forget to buy some spacers. I had some FD wheels a while back in white. They looked cool enough but they didn\'t fit the front without spacers. The rears needed spacing out too so they suited the fronts.

I do like the Japanese gold colour but I think if I was you I\'d go with a lighter colour as your car is dark enough.


Ade

I already have a pair of +20s for the front, will get some for the rears at some point, the +20s on the OEM FC rims push them out to the arch, will see what the FD rims are like on the rear without spacers.

[Lacey]

That gold is nice, not quite as bright as the usual \'scooby bling bling gold\'

[m1tch]

Shadow chrome?

[L18M]

bright pink or bright orange :p

[m1tch]

bright pink or bright orange :p

But then I would go blind and then not be able to drive :rolleyes:

[B.Martin]

I\'m going to go with the jap gold

[m1tch]

Ah ha! I have found the photo of the FC with the R32 GTR rims (was going to go for this)

[B.Martin]

Can\'t see it on the iPhone can you load it using a different site?

[m1tch]

Right, I am now thinking possibly gloss black centres with a silver lip (its easy to mask off the spokes on the FD rims it seems) apparently the dark gold is very hard to keep clean with all the brake dust

[B.Martin]

If you use a decent wheel wax when you clean then brake dust is no problem. I was using this on my last car - http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_194661_langId_-1_categoryId_165682 - Obviously that didn\'t kick out as much brake dust as an RX, but nevertheless it was good stuff.

[m1tch]

Right, I have got my Efini rims now, I have cleaned them up a bit (removed a bit of corrosion) to make them back to \'used but acceptable\' quality, my car is all go and no show, so I don\'t want brand new looking wheels.

Here is some before and afters (only fitted the rears today - Efini centres being painted)

Before - 20mm spacer on the rear with OEM rims




After - spacer removed from the rear to be added to the front tomorrow




Also a pretty cool concept - FC/FD hybrid rim - looks really cool! lol

[DJ Tommo]

bright pink or bright orange :p

Like mine?

Cheers

Tom