I was gonna wait to post pics til I got her washed, claybar'd, waxed, detailed, tire shined etc and shots with a better camera, but its been a couple weeks now since I finished these and I'm tired of waiting to share, so you'll just have to live with lousy cell phone quality pics and a dirty car :P


"Work in progress." The side by side 'before-and-after' shot. Sorry I didn't document detailed shots of all the work put into the prep, just shots of the wheels here and then how they look on the car.


A closeup of the front driver's side rim/caliper. Nevermind the reddish tint on the spokes, that was from a box that was behind me in the garage and it reflected onto the rim when I took the shot. And yes, I need some tireshine desperately lol.


This was the day after everything had cured for about 36+ hours and I had just got my ECU back from speedtuning so I was rolling out of the garage for the first time and snapped a quick shot.


Different angle of catching some sun. I think the red behind the metallic graphite looks great I'm very happy with it.

Lemme know what you think

I'll hopefully be getting some shots with a better camera soon, gotta get me a new sig made, I have 4 of the 5 things in my current "soon to come list" so I really need to update that.

 

I like!

You did a great job painting those and the wheels are one of my favorite OEM wheels.

You just need a little lowering and you'll be set.

 

I wanted to do that to my car when I had those rims. I like it. Looks good.

 

Thanks guys

Yea, I know I need to get out of the ionosphere a little, but alas, school comes first, cant afford springs just now If I ever happen by an extra 250-300 bucks for just some race springs, I'll probably get em, but I'd really prefer a coilover set, vmaxx to be exact, but the 600 or so dollars is very far fetched right now, I can barely afford to eat lol. Plus, I'm trying to avoid putting TOOO much money into the B5 modwise so that I can save up for a B7 2.0t and mod the hell out of that instead. Little things here and there like aesthetic upgrades to the interior/exterior are justified, but big purchases like coilovers, GIAC, JHM shortshifter etc are things I'd rather put into a car with much more mod potential than the 2.8.

Arguably, I shouldn't have let macypro's set of used Koni's slip since he only asked 250 for the springs/struts and that would have been a killer deal, but the deal was gone before I could even look at my bank account and consider thinking about taking them off his hands lol

 

i havent sold them yet bro lol

 

haha im interested in the konis if cragman has placed the money elsewhere

 

very nice paint jobs man. daym you and red calipers, the bandwagon just keeps getting longer. how's the chip, it's great isn't it? trust me you'll get bored of it in 2 months lol. you'll want more....

 

Looks very good on your car bud, I really like the look of it. Nice call on graphite rather than black. Thumbs up on the new look and the quality of the job you did

 

Thanks man. Lol yea, I went with red cuz I thought it would contrast nicely behind the graphite. If I ever get bored with the color of these rims and decide to paint them again, I would probably go with satin black rims and yellow calipers, but I'm satisfied with these for now The chip is great indeed, and if I get bored with the sub-par power levels, at least I've still got the better gas mileage I'm getting out of it

Thanks dude, I am way happy with it. Can't wait to finish the rest of my aesthetic upgrades, it'll be nice.

O and macpyro, cool to hear you've still got them, but unfortunately I couldn't snag any financial aid for this semester so all my tuition is going on a credit card so I have to gear as much money as possible towards paying that off quickly to avoid being raped by interest

 

what color paint did u use? just gray or what?