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View Full Version : graphite/titanium wheels on RED 8 Wing 09-29-2003, 01:30 PM AMAZING looking! I haven't washed my brake dust off in a week and from about 10 feet away my wheels just look like they are graphite! It looks WICKED! Might be too dark for the other colours but on the red it looks stellar! r0tor 09-30-2003, 06:21 PM Originally posted by Wing AMAZING looking! I haven't washed my brake dust off in a week and from about 10 feet away my wheels just look like they are graphite! It looks WICKED! Might be too dark for the other colours but on the red it looks stellar! I noticed the same thing on my black car - the dirty darker rims look better! I was thinking about having them powder coated actually. mikeb 10-01-2003, 01:06 AM I clean the rims every other day to avoid that maybe I should stop j/k Efini 8 10-01-2003, 10:25 PM just a heads up, if you leave that brake dust accumulate on the rim for a long period of time, it starts to bond with the molecules of the metal of the rim P-Rock 10-07-2003, 07:40 PM I am painting my 18" gun metal grey with a red pearl lip sup3rbad 10-08-2003, 02:36 AM Originally posted by Wing AMAZING looking! I haven't washed my brake dust off in a week and from about 10 feet away my wheels just look like they are graphite! It looks WICKED! Might be too dark for the other colours but on the red it looks stellar! haha wow. i wanted to post the same thing, good call... haha mikeb 10-08-2003, 07:05 PM a red pearl lip I dont know about that P-Rock 10-10-2003, 03:22 PM You will not be able to see it unless the light hits it just right. I will be one of those things like, WHAT WAS THAT. mikeb 10-10-2003, 08:16 PM oh that sounds ok then P-Rock 10-18-2003, 09:41 AM I just got my rims back and they look GREAT. I painted them Cobra R Gunmetal Grey with a Red Peral Lip and left the center caps silver. The look is undescribable they look awsome. When you ride you can see the red glow wow. I will post a pic as soon as I can get a camera. sup3rbad 10-18-2003, 05:27 PM sounds nice mikeb 10-18-2003, 06:21 PM Get a camera NOW j/k pyrospawn 10-19-2003, 07:57 PM I would love to see this, been wanting to do the same thing on my black 8 Shocka 10-19-2003, 08:39 PM haha funny u people mentioned that .. i also kinda liked how the rims looked with the brake dust, even though i constantly clean em. the problem my car is Titanium Gray so it looks wierd with the car. I was thinkin of powercoating the rims yellow, that should make up for the loss of 9hp right? i really like the rims so i dunno if i wanna change em, powder coat em or what.. srinivasadi 05-11-2009, 07:28 PM I liked it so much that I painted mine ;) http://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?albumid=664&pictureid=6671 http://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?albumid=664&pictureid=6677 http://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?albumid=664&pictureid=6678 http://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?albumid=664&pictureid=6681 http://www.rx8club.com/picture.php?albumid=664&pictureid=6680\ swoope 05-11-2009, 08:00 PM wow, that has to be the record. a 5 and half year bump.. good job! :lol: beers :beer: cjkim 05-11-2009, 11:38 PM haha did you use duplicolor's graphite? Brian Major 05-11-2009, 11:43 PM looks good, are you running spacers? srinivasadi 05-12-2009, 07:09 AM haha did you use duplicolor's graphite? Yes I did, the metallic paint isnt easy todo. Had to sand after painting to get it smooth looks good, are you running spacers? Thanks, I am running 25mm hub centric spacers on all 4. I like the way it looks now, a little more aggressive than the OEM setup Ross_Dawg 05-12-2009, 10:30 AM Looks much more classy than what everybody else is doing (black) :puke: shakeyourbrakes 05-12-2009, 11:10 AM :lol:painted mine too http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g87/dralla99/IMG_0352.jpg Ross_Dawg 05-12-2009, 02:07 PM looks good man; still think you shoulda gone with gold :yesnod: 9krpmrx8 05-12-2009, 02:25 PM AMAZING looking! I haven't washed my brake dust off in a week and from about 10 feet away my wheels just look like they are graphite! It looks WICKED! Might be too dark for the other colours but on the red it looks stellar! This thread fails without pics. Ross_Dawg 05-12-2009, 03:32 PM This thread fails without pics. That post was over 5 years ago lol 9krpmrx8 05-12-2009, 03:52 PM Oh snap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: ztbear13 05-13-2009, 08:41 AM Yea I did the same thing with mine I think the graphite looks good. |