sectachrome

1987RX7guy

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Stock bro. Painting them will just make you look more like a ricer than anything. They are the ones always painting **** like their brake calipers and wheels. Keep our cars clean and our image as sport car enthusiasts will be better in the long run!


Santiago

E-Warrior

if you want em black, buy rims that come that way. He's right about painting them being kinda rice. Rice starts out innocent, like just painting your rims black, next thing you know your interior is wall to wall peel-and-stick carbon fiber, then it's off to ricers anonymous.

Cosmo Donk

I just like what you called them Balogna slicers! I will remember that one.

I was thinking of painting my beat up OZ's but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Kenteth

i dont know if i like them black. Maybe a gunmental of sort. But black is just too much for stock wheels. Its like seeinga grand am with bright burgandy rims that match the car *augh*

sectachrome

meh, im broke, what are you gonna do. and im no ricer.

1987RX7guy

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If your broke just leave it as is. Save up for quality wheels if you want a better look. Trying to look "nice" like this only gives us a ghetto image just like all the true ricers out there. Polish the wheels up and they will look good. Just deal with the fact that you are broke don't do a job "half assed".


Santiago

eViLRotor

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Stupidity like the arguments brought forth in this thread is why I miss this Forum less and less.

Its excruciating sometimes how a once technical forum has turned into such a useless discussion of trivial matters.

Oh no, I painted my calipers. Guess I'm a ricer.
Let him paint his rims. Looks decent enough in the photshop he did.

sectachrome

i doubt i would actually ever do it. i was just messing around in photoshop to see what it would look like and thought it looked pretty nice.

ScrapFC

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I agree that if you do the job half-assed it'll look like some crappy ricer job. Might look ok if you polish the lip and do your prep right so you've got a professional finish. Personally, I was pretty underwhelmed with my stock wheels. (Too much tire flex and scrubbing in the corners) I don't think I'd spend any time trying to make them look better, (save for some really light 16s or 17s) but in the end, it's your car.

1987RX7guy

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There is a big difference between a photoshoped image and a real paint job. It does not look great for long. I have seen plenty of good paint jobs on wheels around here and within months they start to chip and look like crap. Our car's are already jap imports do you need to make them look worse by doing ghetto things like that? The more things start to be "ok" and look "great" the worse our cars are looking. I've started to see riced our cars on all these forums and making things "ok" is not helping our image to the rest of the performance car world.

ajsuper7

painted doesnt look too bad but could be concidered rice...i think cleaned and polished wheels would look better. its funny b/c at the porsche event i went to a few weeks ago i couldnt help but wonder if some of the racing porsche's with painted 993 turbo wheels was concidered rice. then again those wheels are what like 800 a piece for knock offs?

sectachrome

sorry rice police. worry about your own car. its not your job to make sure everyones car is fit to your liking.

Relisys190

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BBS "vert" rims... Mmmm

Center "web" portion painted a slightly darker (gunmetal) grey, with a nice 1" factory polished lip. Simple, effective, well put.

Unfourtunatly the Stock GXL wheels are just too ugly to do anything with. But i suppose, it's your car and it wouldnt look too horrific.

good luck.
-Markus

DelSlow

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im getting my rims powdercoated black, but i have a black car. my ftps, turn signals, and side markers are all tinted too. i think it looks badass, very clean, and im not a ricer.

sectachrome

like this?


and as i said before, im not actually gonna paint them, i was just messing around in photoshop.

SirCygnus

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the bbs vert rims like that look hot imho.

Relisys190

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exactly like that...

Damn that's sexy.

-Markus

BDoty311

Paint them black if you want them black. WHEEL COLOR HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RICE, ESPECIALLY BLACK!!! Good God. He's not putting LED lights on his valve stems or on his washer sprayes. He wants to paint his wheels black.

1987RX7guy

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And what do LED's have to do with rice?

BDoty311

LEDs on valve stems and washer sprayers are tacky.

1987RX7guy

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So are painted stock wheels.

BDoty311

Is painting over the stock paint tacky? No....

Digi7ech

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Quit with your damn Rice this Rice that ****.

If it was your way then the cars would probably be bare metal because painting is "Rice".

I painted my Calipers with Cailper paint because they were starting to corrode and the paint helps as a deterrant. I just picked red for the color because it went well with the car.

Here is a pic of my old 88 SE with painted phone dials.
It looks like they were done right because they have a nice glossy finish t them with the silver lip.

Digi7ech

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I guess you would consider Tims CYM in the front of this pic Rice as well because he has painted his rims Gunmetal.

Learn that there is such a thing as good looking and NOT stock.