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I managed to spend 2 precious days off in the good company of a mate, 10 wheels and a whole lot of high grade and paper. The net result of which is no more ugly dark blue wheels, very little remaining fingernail and a few large blisters.

And some great looking wheels

That's a nice looking shade...! What is it called?

Now git'r lowered y'hear!

Sorry but the originals were better can't believe you just killed those magnesium blue te37s.

Unfortunately, they weren't the original Rays blue, they were originally white and a previous owner did a really dodgy over-spray on them.

The only original Magnesium blue bit I had was one centre cap

I've got a set of Tein s-tech springs and Bilstein B6 shocks to go in next week (or as soon as I can find someone to do them....), but I'm kinda waiting to see if anyone else is going to be in on the group-buy for sway bars that Josh (Wholesale Suspension) is running.

i think they suit the car much better in silver well done

well done....did you clear coat them? was there a special sort of paint you used?

What sized wheels are they??

Thanks squire

It's a factory Renault colour (427), in DeBeer paint, from Autolac. We double-coated with clear-coat (2pack with hardner) after the base coat, with a small go of 1200+ grade sand paper in the middle.

The wheels are 17*7.5 +44

Great job and the colour does look a whole lot better, I sprayed my wheels a year ago and one thing people need to know is that you need a lot of patience and good masking skills

Artificial Life wrote:Thanks squire

It's a factory Renault colour (427), in DeBeer paint, from Autolac. We double-coated with clear-coat (2pack with hardner) after the base coat, with a small go of 1200+ grade sand paper in the middle.

The wheels are 17*7.5 +44

Do you know if most WRX wheels fit the NC??

Also could you post some higher quality pics when you get a chance?

The WRX ones are +55 / 7.5, so probably won't get a tyre under the guards without scraping, without some serious tyre stretch, but you could try. Mine were originally off a DC5 Integra.

The STi ones are +55 / 8.5, so there's probably far too wide.

They'll look better when I put the new Rays stickers on

WRX wheels- you might have problems of it rubbing the inside guard/suspension than the outside.

Would 17x5 5x100/5x114.3 +42 fit without any issue??

Do you mean 17x7? if so +42 should be okay.

+55 17x8.5 is okay, since stock is +55, going wider doesn't hurt

@ndrew wrote:Would 17x5 5x100/5x114.3 +42 fit without any issue??

Probably, but I wouldn't be cutting 1.5 off the standard rim width for a change of wheel. Better off to save your pennies and wait for a better set of wheels.