Colored Lug Nuts For Stock Rims
 

I'm looking for red lug nuts for my stock nismo rims. I plan to powder coat the rims black. I need a good brand of lug nuts that makes the right size for the stock rim. Has anyone found any? or would it be easier to just paint or powder coat the stock lug nuts?

I got some NRG aluminum lugs in blue for my car. They seem ok, but haven't read many reviews on them.

Probably easier to color your stock ones. Most aftermarket lugs won't work with the stock rims.

I was actually thinking about this as well.

would the stock lugs hold color well? I would hate to have to paint them everytime the tires come off.

they probably will not hold any paint well at all. For the OEM lugs unfortunately you dont have much in terms of choice at all. You could PC just the top of them though, that part shoudnt chip off.

won't hold it well at all.

what if I sand blast the lug nuts before powder coating? What that help them hold up better?

I may end up having to do that.

you can powdercoat them. If you are just going to put your wheels on and leave them until the tires or brakes wear out, you will be fine. If you swap wheels often, just do the tops of them and leave the sides uncoated.

Sand blasting them won't do anything, its the wrench torqueing on the lugs that messes the sides up.

I don't know of any aftermarket lugnuts for the stock wheels.

These lugnuts that I did only have the tops coated:

yeah but the problem with just doing the tops is that my rims are going to be black. I think the silver sides would stand out alittle.

And Mike your Z1 Motorsports powder coater right?
If so you will more than likely be the person doing my rims and lugs nuts.

yes I am. If you are going to put them on and leave them, then doing the whole lugnut will be fine. they may scrape up a little, but you won't really see it on the sides once installed. Its when you start putting them off and on repeatedly that they start to tear up.

not to thread jack, but is there a reason AM lugs don't fit OEM rims? and Those are some awesome Green lugs Mike!

yes, there is a reason. Our wheels use an acorn style lugnut. the clamping force is on the washer area. most other factory wheels, and most aftermarket use conical tapered lugs, but the mounting point on our wheel is flat, not tapered. If you use aftermarket lugnuts, you will get a ring of about 1/16" of an inch that is the only contact area between the lugnut and the wheel.

my next question is, a two parter... a) why doesn't anyone make an AM acorn style? and B) is there a reason to have one over the other?

I don't understand this either. Even looking at other forums seems like there is a significant demand for different lug nuts that work witht he stock wheels. Someone needs to contact muteki.

I think noone offers them because most people who change lugnuts also change wheels, and very few OEMs use our style of lugnut.

As to why Nissan uses this style lugnut on the 370 and GTR, its only speculation on my part, but they do offer more surface contact area so probably hold a little better. Either that or Mr K's grandson owns an odd shaped lugnut factory.

Is it safe to assume that over the last year (since the last post here), no one has released any colored lugs that fit the OEM wheels (Rays 19", specifically)?

that actually might look rather cool, in my opinion. two tone. you would have to be standing pretty close to them to notice though. :tup:

I'm still wondering this myself. :(

Could you powdercoat stock lugs? I'm assuming they would have to be sand blasted first.

Zcarman had a unique and cheap solution to this. ill see if i can track him down to post. he put a cap over the lugnuts.

I wouldn't mind putting caps/covers over my lugs, but they would have to look metalized... because I've seen some caps that are rubber looking and they just look stupid.

Could I use a GTRs stock lugs on my Nismo rims then?

What about these?

Black Bulge Acorn Lug Nuts

Your wheels would fall off.

You need something that look like this with the washer..

http://www.z1motorsports.com/g37_370z/popup_image.php?pID=5416&osCsid=jvh1pmrhc1a00hjfji rpoo88d4&imageNum=1

I was thinking about a cheap solution to this, but I was unsure of the mechanics behind it.

What if someone were to mill on a CNC some "adapters", that had a concave acorn area, and still had a flat part that also went into the wheel hole? So basically, you could use any aftermarket lug nug with this adapter, and the adapter would ensure a snug, tight fit. I couldn't imagine it would be hard to mill at all - if I still had access to a machine shop, I would love to give it a shot. Just use some billets of aluminium or something.

Here is a quick drawing of what I mean:

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...530_002014.jpg

This would be one solid piece of metal, or it could have another washer so it can freespin like the stock ones.

EDIT: I'm an idiot. I completely forgot about lathes. This would be so easy, it's not even funny. :bowrofl:

Someone get this man a machine shop!

Haha, I noticed you're in South Florida, hello there!

I'm actually gonna look into this for us. I did 2 years of CAD/CAM in high school, and was also close with the teacher. As such, I had pretty much unlimited access to computer mills and lathes. If I could use the lathe, alongside just a rod of aluminium, this would be a walk in the park. I could procure sets of 20 at a time.

Unfortunately, it's summer, so that plan is out the window. :shakes head: I'm gonna look into local machine shops or something, at least until my university term starts up again in Fall - there is a machine shop on campus I'm sure I could get some access to.