I've been working on the car over winter (or what we call winter down here: waxed the car in shorts today). Pulled the front lip for a repaint, and other stuff for the upcoming Solo season (running behind: we're racing tomorrow). Anyway, I got a set of 17x8+45 ASA AR1 off eBay with massive 275/40-17 V710 with about 40-50% life left. They are pretty big and don't fit well on an 8" rim, but I am using them on my rear 17x9+63 ASA FR1 track wheels. With such big rubber on the car, I couldn't drop it much. They rub on bumps now (fenders are rolled), but I'm not driving on these wheels until I get narrower street rubber.

I don't have staggered wheels, but will stagger the tires (205F/245R) to help out. With stiffer front springs and my conservative street driving, I don't think it will be a problem. These are going to be my daily driver wheels.

The wheels were gloss black on polished lips, which are way overdone now (I see them on Camrys). I have one set of bronze AP1s, a set of flat black AP1s, and my FR1s are also flat black, so I wanted to change up the look. I narrowed it down to gunmetal, bronze, or (gasp) metallic blue. I spraying a couple wheels to test, and the blue came out way better than expected. I got some feedback and decided to go blue. You only live once, and I can repaint them later if I get bored or don't like the attention (you know us Spa drivers are attention-whores anyway). I masked and painted them myself, and put 5 coats of clear, which really made them richer and less annodized. I threw them on today for a couple shots: I've let them cure for two weeks. The pics have a hint of green in them, but it's from the low sun: they are actually more like a dark Laguna Blue. I also hand painted the fake rim bolts in bright silver (fun)





I'll do a better shoot once I'm done fixing it up in a couple months, but I wanted to share. I'm pleased with how they came out so far.

 

Even though Yellow/Blue doesn't really look good together, I dig the look

 

 

 

I beg to differ! Car looks great BTW!

 

My color is somewhere between Work Blue and Laguna Blue. I'm still trying to get used to it. Thanks for the feedback, guys.

 

very different, but surprisingly looks good

 

Different....

 

im not sure what to say!!!
im sure youll get used to it after a few weeks

 

Looking good Benson!