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Yesss that would be sick nasty. You could always go the DIY route instead of powder coating. To save even more time, use the plastic bag method and paint them without removing the calipers. Tbh nobody sees the entire caliper anyway lol...
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
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.
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
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???
03-25-2016, 02:55 PM
