whre can i find bronze or gold wheels?
 

i have a brave blue 91 FC, and i want to get some freakin bronze or gold 17x7" wheels for christmas but i cant find them anywhere! where should i look? you any of you have bronze or gold wheels on your FC's? how do they look?

Pic up a car mag and thumb through it. Lots of wheel ads. Whenever I need to browse rims I look there first, then that directs me to many online wheel shops.

bronze isn't a popular color. most popular non-silver colors are black, chrome and white then gunmetal, then mix (black with polish lip, gunmetal with lip or whatever combo).

i think the website was something like wheelspec.net or something. it's a huge list of manufacturers, wheel series they made, weights, offset, availability (rare, or old skool or back in the day, etc)

if you got coin just burning in your pocket, go get a set of volks in bronze. make sure the offset is insane to give it a big fat lip and call it done. volks have a dark bronze or you could go with something like what prodrive makes and get a "shinier/brighter" bronze. i would go with the darker shade. less number of times you have to clean them and most of the time it tones down a bright(er) paint. if you have a dark color paint, it'll make it more "classier" like red and bronze, blue and bronze, white and bronze.

http://www.hopupracing.com/volkse37kse37a.html :)

see the red "contact us" that means to rich for my blood! :)

jacob paint your stock wheels first. Don't buy 17x7 wheels. To skinny

How bout some Bronze FN01R-C 18x10.5 with BFG KD's 265/35-18 all around (+45 offset). AND, you can get this package for the price of a 17" set? PM me for more details if you'd like

~Mike

I dont doubt that bronze or gold would look awesome on a brave blue s5, i had my first car (87 SE) painted brave blue but those wheels would go from zero to stolen in about 20 minutes so make sure to get some serious lug nut locks. if you have alot of money get some volk te37's in bronze, those are awesome wheels

18's on a FC? that's a lot of wheel. i went +1 to 17's but 8" wide instead of 7 or 7.5. most Maryland roads aren't wheel friendly.

http://www.rayswheels.co.jp/emenu/wheel.html

i actually have FD wheels right now (16x8) and i painted them bronze, they look AWESOME... however i was gonna try to sell them and the relatively new azenis tires i have on them for something a little better looking... i'm goin for some looks now that the car is relatively quick and handles well.

MS-01Mag's the only way to go. Sadly at 1200-1685 per wheel (different prices concerning whether it is rx-8 or rx-7), including center caps and other stuff around 1800x4 so 7,200+ shipping from Japan, I am going to have to wait a little while to get them. lol

Not to mention tires for them, so probably a good 9k for a set of wheels and tires :(

Just a little about the wheels: FYI 7.5 kilos is around 16 lbs

http://rlinney.users.btopenworld.com/ms93.jpg
FORGED MAGNESIUM WHEEL "MS-01 MAG"

The MS-01MAG is a forged magnesium wheel developed jointly by Mazdaspeed and Rays Co., Ltd., a top wheel manufacturer with whom we have worked on many racing cars. Compared to aluminium, magnesium offers significantly better strength and durability for the same weight, and forging produces an ideally even, high-density material.

Difficult processing has so far limited magnesium to only a handful of automotive products, but we selected it for the MS-01MAG in order to simultaneously achieve substantial weight savings (approximately 7.5 kilograms per wheel) and significant reliability gains. The result is a large reduction in the unsprung weight of the car. Like the other members of the MS-01 series, the MS-01MAG uses a five-spoke design for better brake cooling effect, and its gold colouring gives the RX-7 a taut, powerful body line from the ground up.

MS-01 is the generic name for street-ready five-spoke wheels that follow the same basic design as the magnesium wheels that were fabricated exclusively for the Mazda 787B prototype racing car in the Group C. The MS-01MAG is closer to the original Mazda 787B wheels than any other member of the series, and represents the pinnacle of road-going wheels for this model.

The MS-01MAG is designed exclusively for the flagship Mazda RX-7 (FD3S) sports car and comes only in an 18-inch version.


[ Specifications & Price ]
Part Number Model Color Size
(recommended tire size) Hole PCD Code Retail
Price
(JPY)
9MS1 M8 8540G RX-7(FD3S) Fr Gold 18x8.5J+40 (235/40ZR18) 5 114.3 A 130,000/ea
9MS1 M8 9538G RX-7(FD3S) Rr 18x9.5J+38 (265/40ZR18) 135,000/ea




--Fritz

That's a nice wheel. Magnesium... mmmm.... :)

konig imagine 17" come in bronze and look SWEET.

and I don't even like aftermarket wheels!