heres pics of my new 83LE wheels
-after a bunch of polishing, note they haven't been cleaned yet

-before any work pics

up close pic to show the shine

side by side before and after pics


I'm very pleased with the way the wheels turned out after the many hours of sanding/polishing that was required to get the shine out of them. After seeing onlyonthurs's FB and and thinking he had just about the sexy'est wheels on a FB I ever saw I knew if I bought the 83LE's I had to copy him and duplicate the polished lip look, I'm not going to completly bite off onlyonthurs style by painting the center black (i love the black tho) but rather leave the center spokes factory finish or spray them gold, what color do you guys think I should paint the centers ? Heres a pic of the car they are going on for color reference


I feel a little bad using these rather rare wheels as my winter set but that is what I originally purchased them for so I'm sticking to it hehehe .
I need a suggestion for a really good rain tire, its seattle duh but the tire also needs to have the highest posible dry grip, again

-a quick tirerack search returned these tires
yoko ES100


BFGoodrich traction T/A

or

bridgestone potenza pole position RE960


Also I would like to personally thank fourm members 85gs (craig) for selling me such a clean set of wheels and onlyonthurs (marcello) for taking the time to help me out reaching my goals/plan I had for these wheels and also revealing his jedi tricks for making the wheels sparkle sparkle you two were a big help, THANKS -aaron

 

OH man they look oh so sexy!!! GREAT FREAKIN JOB MANG!!! I use FAlken Ziex's (205/60/14) on my LE wheels and they grip nicely in the rain too

 

Omg I Want Them Rims

 

Goddamn you guys and your -LE rims...

*whines* I want some!!!!

Jon

 

very very nice man.....makes me want some on my se

 

They look awesome, I say leave them factory or black, no gold paint. Or if you want to be mad JDM you could do red centers.

And unless your future plans for the car involve putting the car in a ditch I wouldn't get the ES100's. I have them right now and I love them, but the smallest amount of moisture affects them.

 

Looks good!

 

lookin real good!

 

heres my red car with le wheels.
i personally like the factory silver, if the paints in good shape i would leave them be.

 

I have some Sumitomo HTR 200 205/60/R14 on my 83 LE, and I love them. They did fine when I lived down in Lousiana, and we all know when it rains down there its a disaster lol


Nice job on the lip. Looks good! Got that bling going on! lol

 

Beautiful car mang....but i notice that she is sitting quite high. Why is that?

 

it only in that one picture.
we had just put the engine in and i think it took time for the shocks to settle back down or something, it was a mystery really.
it even has rb springs on the front, lol.

 

hey i know you said these were going to be your winter wheels, but i think once you put them on you will fall madly in love with them... you may as well just go ahead and sell me those raggity old wheels that are on your car in the pic for $50... jk!!! don't get mad, i think they are both nice wheels!!! but for real if you do sell out please notify me...

 

Wierd. I have them too and think they suck rabid hairy monkey butt in the rain... Freeway on ramps taken regularly (assuming no traffic) at 50+ on dry at taken at 25-30 in rain with both hands on the wheel...

 

thanks all for positive comments,

hehehe dayton I'm already in love and they aren't even mounted yet, the kosie's aren't going anywhere except storage until june I have about 500+ dollar rubber on them and they are getting down low in treadwear which also happends to be when they grip the best so I want to save them until summer when it doesn't rain for three months.

Speaking on the yoko's which happen to be the only tire on my list I have driven on, I have road shotty in a couple cars (96 jeda with full suspension and 93 prelude w/stock suspension) with the es100's and they gripped really well in the dry and I haven't seen them pushed in the wet but I'm guessing on a light rwd in the rain they prolly suck with that tread pattern.
I have always been a bfgoodrich tire man so I will prolly scoop that set but I still wanna hear anyones experience on the bridgestones as those are the same price and I like the tread pattern on them.

 

midwest7 -what size are those tires ? looks real nice but has a little more gap then I would like to see with mine.

 

stock size 195/60 14

 

I wish my LE wheels looked that good.

 

i had to do a lot of work on mine, sanding, steel wool, dremel.
then i polish them with mothers every few months.

 

tires are kinda gross and need to bescrubed but here is a quick snapshot, better pics to come in daylight

 

So what tires did you go with? And is that pic at the northgate bestbuy lot?

 

Mesh rims are not my cup of tea, but I damn it if those don't look awesome!
Great job!

 

From the pictures I think he went with the BFgoodrich Traction T/A Its kinda hard to tell from the pic, but I think that is what I read on the sidewalls.

 

yes I did end up going with the Traction T/A's, so far they seem to have a very high level of grip to them, I'm going to mess around with psi's and seem if I cannot get them to handle better.

as promissed here are some dday time pics.

 

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