I actually have experience doing a DIY caliper paint job and it turned out pretty good. I just have to work up the courage to paint over perfectly good condition calipers, lol. Because racecar, right!?! lol

 

Slightly better pictures after a little tire shine application.

 

Those are some beautiful high quality wheels right there Ryne. I seriously can't get enough at looking how perfect they mix with your car man

 

Thanks Kenny!

 

Consider the can of worms opened...

 

More JDM on the way! Arriving tomorrow!

 

This garbage came in the mail today.

 

I went ahead and took on a small project this weekend. After putting on the new wheels, I noticed my rotors were showing some wear and rusting. I didn't want to take everything off or deal with overspray, so I chose a brush on high temp paint. I also didn't want a high gloss paint. I also trimmed my fender liners while I was in there. I only did the rears for now, but it's a nice improvement. I'll do the fronts during my next oil change.

I went with this:


Before:


After:


I couldn't have the rusty rotors behind these beautiful new Work wheels.

 

It's those small details that make the big difference, can't see enough pics of those shoes, lol.

 

Thanks, I definitely agree (with both of those statements, lol).

 

Absolutely beautiful Ryne! How did those custom spacers work out for you?? And I agree with Brad I can't get enough of those wheels either! So beautiful

 

For a pair of $200 spacers, I was surprised (in a bad way). I couldn't even bolt on the spacer since the supplied socket adapter rounded off from the metal being too soft. Also, there was a disturbingly small amount of actual material being bolted to the hub. The combination of the soft material (as shown on the socket adapter) and the small amount of material left me feeling too uncomfortable to actually install these.

I would not recommend FIC 10mm bolt on spacers. They are made in Japan which is great, but the quality doesn't seem up to par and they are ridiculously expensive spacers.

The picture below shows rounding from attempting to tighten a single lug onto the hub. I couldn't even get it to full torque. You can see in the picture that it even rounded off the other way when trying to remove the barely tightened on nut.

 

Absolutely love the color. Just beautiful wheels man. Goes so well with your coupe....

 

Thanks, I appreciate the compliments. The color of these wheels was actually the deciding factor for me. There are a lot of wheels out there, but I could not find any other wheel with a shade quite like this. On top of that, i'm a huge fan of the 7 spoke design.

 

That's crazy about that socket, usually it's the nuts that are prone to rounding off. Interesting about those spacers, didn't know they made bolt ons as thin as 10mm. Maybe there's a reason they aren't common???