So I decided to keep the Gram Lights 57c's that have been sitting in my garage forever, but I absolutely hated the look of the 17x8.5 pair that i had. So I purchased another full set from an MR2 owner in CA.

I wasn't to fond of the crappy bronze color that Rays produced these in. I don't know why in the world they wouldn't use the same process as the Volk line. Anyways since the the set that I bought from CA were spray painted, I decided to strip them all and refinish them.

I found a nice surprise underneath all of the hate. Apparently Rays did use the same process as the volk line in that it has a polished machine lip under its powder coat.

specs
17x9.5 +38 front
17x9.5 +22 rear

stock widened body.

I will update as progress continues on these wheels. The plan is to finish them in the same fashion as Volk anodized lip that has matching powder coated faces.

Before:


After:

 

DAM nice

 

cool! what did you use to take the paint off? was it powdercoated? thanks!

 

i used a spray coating stripper, not paint stripper. The coating stripper is much stronger and yes they were powder coated.

 

Very nice!

 

nice

 

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updated

 

[QUOTE=drtyhatch,Feb 23 2011, 08:45 PM]i used a spray coating stripper, not paint stripper.

 

I like the way those look alot.