I'm finally getting around to doing something with the LE wheels I have. I'm stripping them down to bare metal and repainting them, but I'm not sure what I wanna do. I could: a. Repaint them the stock color (anyone know what it is? looks like chateau silver, can someone confirm this?) or b. paint theh "mesh" black and just clear coat the rim, or c. something else, I'm open to suggestions. These wheels will be going on my 83 S, which is sunrise red. Anyway, what do you guys think? Here's a pic of the wheels in case some of you don't know what 83 LE wheels look like. side note, take a look at that compartment rust, you can see the plastic compartment through the wheel well, thats what 6 years of sitting will do to a FB.

 

I'm restoring a set of wheels I have that have the same kind of design. I'm polishing the lip with mothers mag and leaving it unpainted, just polished aluminum. I'm also painting the center mesh part a dark gunmetal grey, with a very small amount of sparkle to it. I have 2 done so far, they look really nice.

 

I have a LE also. What I would do is polish the lip part, then have the mesh powder coated silver, or paint them silver, as far as I know the mesh was just silver. Not the chateau silver that the cars were painte with. Post some pics of what you do with them.

 

Ha Ha, I have 7 of the LE wheels that I also need to restore. I like the idea of the polished lip, I can do that myself, but I think I'm going to get the center section powdercoated. I'm still not sure about the color, though. I'd like to see some pictures if anybody would care to post some. I had also thought about stripping all the paint off, polishing the lip and then bead blasting the center until it's just bright raw aluminum like a waffle wheel. Then I could just clean them with that Eagle 1 etching mag wheel cleaner, which works great.
That's the cheaper option. I could also just get the entire wheel powdercoated for $35 apiece.
Decisions, decisions...

 

polished rim and paint the mesh black would look awsome on that red S. There's no other option IMO.

 

yeah on a red car that would look cool. on my 83le i'm going to polish the lip and respray the centers in the stock color

mike