Anyone have unique colored wheels?..think Porsche GT3
 

So I've been considering getting new wheels to distinguish my Z from every other one...unfortunatley black/grey/gunmetal will not do this.

I have reason to believe that going completley gt3 style could look rather cool on my black 370.

I searched, but (not to my suprise) found noone who has done this. Besides a few with colored lips.

Opinions?

http://www.bjstoresusa.com/UserFiles...rBlkGT3RSA.jpg
http://0.tqn.com/d/exoticcars/1/0/K/...0-GT3-RS-3.jpg
http://gt3rscape.bryangira.com/wp-co...010/11/004.jpg
http://www.luxuryautodirect.com/blog...front-logo.jpg

One of the guys on the forum painted his sport wheels lime green. The pictures are floating around somewhere. I just don't feel like looking.

black cars will go with any color rims. You just need something else to go with the rims.

Obnoxiously colored wheels take a lot to pull off. You need a pretty worked on car to get it to look right IMO.

I love brightly colored wheels...

^_^

Not everyone's taste... but that's ok.

My old DC5 w/cotton candy blue...
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...5/4efc29ab.jpg

The previous setup on Takata greens...
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f3...20DC5/new1.jpg

There's a gray GD subie around my neighborhood with hot pink wheels. Looks pretty good IMHO

I would love to do the redish/pink like that GT3RS

I agree 100%
And in my opinion, it be best on an aftermarket wheel

Yea I think Im going to go with a concave multi spoke wheel (8 spokes+)

Im really liking the red.

I would have to pair it with either a red painted side skirts / and or some other accents

The trick i think is going to be to make it exotic looking rather than riced...
http://image.hondatuningmagazine.com...+side_view.jpg

looks sweet on white
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1169/...c26e3e.jpg?v=0

I have seen the gray GT3 RS with red wheels in person and it is sooooo sexy....

It helps if you have the wheel color highlighted somewhere else on the car. Nice accents, etc.

Hmm, Im very nervous to start paiting accents all over the car.

Do you think vinyls could work> IE on the mirros, and perhaps the fangs and somwhere on the side. Just so if I HATE it, i can easily remove it and just sell the wheels.

this would look very cool with the amuse kit as well IMO....

Please don't start painting bits of your car colors to make the wheels match.

Point of making wheels a different color is to stand out.. when you start to change other things it gets a bit obnoxious.

WarmAndSCSI's wife has a white Z with raspberry-colored wheels, and he has a blue Evo with lime green wheels. Both look pretty clean.

To each their own.

I know, but those GT3's are so fly.

Also, I would opt for vinyl if possible, being it could be easily removed.

It's going to be really hard to put vinyl over a wheel...

And GT3s are fly because they are GT3s... not 370zs with crazy colored wheels and accessories.

^_^

well obviously the wheels would need powdercoating.

And i bet when the designer at Porsche first told management of the idea to paint a Porsche's rims Bright Red/Pink/Orange, they laughed at him and told him that its not a civic....and now GT3's are fly...

Powdercoat the wheels and do vinyl accents over the mirrors and along the side skirts and wing.

To make the look for "fitting", the car would need to have a heavy track-ready look (like the GT-3) or have a super aggressive stance IMO

LOL

So you are saying that Civics were the first car to have painted wheels?

I'm not sure if you know this or not, but Porsche has been offering colored wheels for special versions of the 911 since the 70s.

http://porsche911cars.com/images/porsche_911.jpg

http://www.michaelwisecars.co.uk/ima...0488_thumb.JPG

http://www.carcollery.com/wp-content...carrera-rs.jpg

http://www.autofiends.com/wp-content...e/P5303504.jpg

http://www.psautoart.com/images_cms/large/300r_492.jpg

http://autocars17.com/wp-content/upl...911_GT3_RS.jpg

I'm just saying... if you want to get creative... awesome... but there is a line between being different and being tacky and tasteless.

And the 370Z is not a Porshce GT3.

If I owned a porsche, it wouldn't have lookatme ugly vinyl or painted rims. Gross!

The grey GT3 RS with red is incredibly good looking in person. Generally the porsche models that offer color accents are the race/track inspired models, hence the track oriented appearance..........

just to give you an idea....my buddy Andy's car back in 2007...

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/4136/dsc0372lk6.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4987/img9583op1.jpg

Saw this on SSR's facebook page. New custom finish! looks sick!
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2090630_n.jpg

^^ Would be interested to see those on a car...

me too, They only posedt that disk and a picture of a wheel with that finish on their page.
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1767142_n.jpg

I ran these for a while... I loved the color but it was not widely accepted

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/PA253320.jpg
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/P1133446.jpg

I'm thinking of powdercoating the Forgestar F14s I have on order either harley orange or lime green. they will be track wheels.

I don't know if the Harley orange would have enough depth. I do like the direction your going. It's a pretty flat orange right?

no, this one has a pearl to it. Although the rest of my car will be matte black soon.

This might be a little 80s, but I love white on white.

I like this combination HERE . Sorry if the link isn't allowed, but it's basically a blue Z with orange rims. Some color combinations just work really well together and I think blue/orange fit nicely. Blue/Orange (or yellow) is something that reminds me of the Pokemon/Capcom logo.

Before zdaysz I presume?

Do a photo shop first to get the color right. Possibly doing the mirror covers and spoiler like the GT3 may work too.

Porshe can get away with those radical colors because it's a porshe. Not many people would talk **** about a porshe. On civics, toyotas, nissans, people call it rice.

hopefully next weekend.

:happydance:

:iagree:

:tup:
Thats why your one side is gold and other is black. :bowrofl:
But yeah it's nice to see you are trying to stand out from others.
I just don't want to see a Z being ruined/degraded.
This forum hasn't been bad yet, though I've seen a few ricey.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g5...l/gt370zrs.jpg

quick shop i did to make my nismo look gt3'ish

Needs some GT3 style decals down the side to make it look right.