B14 Wheels Gold Or Bronze??? And More....

srpowrd · 06-11-2007, 05:06 PM

Well I sold my old wheels for $400 to a friend who picked up a NX2000. Here is a couple pics of the old wheels. I will miss them, but time for a new look.

Well I found mint set of B14 SE-R wheels for a $100 That left me with $300 for tires. I ordered a set of Azenis RT-615's in 205/50/15. I took the wheels to be sandblasted and picked them up today. They came out great!

Now my dilema is do I paint them bronze or gold? The bronze that duplicolor makes is a dark bronze almost brown. Its too dark for my taste. I want a bronze like the Nismo wheels.

I am considering tinting the headlights yellow which I think the gold would look better with. If you have pic's of bronze or gold B14 SE-R wheels let me see them!!!

Here are a few pic's of the Avenir motor with the hole drilled for runners #2,3 for the external wastegate setup. And the new turbo mounted up. I'm almost there!!!!!!!! Its taking a little longer than planned but its gonna be worth the wait.

classicaddict · 06-11-2007, 05:18 PM

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^duplicolor bronze.

i too had my wheels sand blasted.....but i did it myself......its a pain in the ass.

limp_noodle · 06-11-2007, 05:25 PM

I too painted my rims w/ duplicolro bronze, they're not b14 wheels, but you get the idea:
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srpowrd · 06-11-2007, 05:29 PM

Thanks classicaddict and limp_noodle!!!! Thats exactly what I wanted to see. Is that a flat bronze or with a clear coat?

classicaddict · 06-11-2007, 08:10 PM

clear coat. they make a flat clear coat ***.

emc_sr20 · 06-11-2007, 11:13 PM

Gold is the best my opinion.

Fatman489 · 06-11-2007, 11:17 PM

I have to disagree that the duplicolor bronze wheel paint is dark. Its all in how you do it. I personaly Lay the surface in a WHITE PRIMER base coat first then spray. Heres a shot of some Honda wheels i did with the same method. and of course the more coats you use the darker it gets. So what i do is coat till it gets to my desired shade then Clear coat.

But thats just my expeirance/ opinion.

PS: Don't mind the white primer on the shot tires, since they are gone I didn't feel the need to keep overspray off them.

Fatman489 · 06-11-2007, 11:21 PM

Also Here are some 17s I Painted for a friend She wanted darker than i did so i went with a few more coats.

lukamccloud · 06-12-2007, 01:15 AM

I painted my AD22VF's with the duplicolor bronze, no clear. they came out pretty well and are a really close match to the enkie bronze.