Keef's Car Thread | Wheels on the Bus | 09/08/23

[boiltheocean]

Paint your RPF1's Blue, it would look so nice.

 

[Keef]

I've been thinking about teal or seafoam, or maybe a dark blue like Volk's Magnesium Blue:

Either way I want the color to be metallic and luxurious looking to contrast with the sporty ridiculousness of the car itself.

Metallic teal?

 

[Cale]

Mystichrome from the SVT Cobra would look really hot as well, and nobody else would have it.

With that color you get metallic teal/blue/purple all in one.

 

[boiltheocean]

Teal would look awfully trend whore, Magnesium Blue looks pretty hot.

EDIT: Got bored and did some different colours, front wheel only because I'm lazy/couldn't be arsed to carefully select the back wheel.

I'll have a go at the side on picture, might actually try match it to proper colours to instead of just playing around with the colour sliders.

 

[Punknoodle]

That purple in the third pic ftw

 

[Keef]

Nice photoshops lol. I'm leaning toward a red or red-orange honestly. I just noticed my blinkers and portholes in that pic...ew! That was before I cleaned them up. Now they're all perfectly clear!

 

[Perfect Balance]

Purple.

 

[Omnis]

You're only allowed to do teal if you turn it into a Miami Dolphins car. You'd have to get Mag Blue lugnuts and brake calipers. Car stays white. Orange pinstripes and stitching.

Any other color is dumb and you will look like a dumbhead. The RPFs are fresh as hell looking now. Why would you ruin it?

 

[Keef]

The RPFs are fresh as hell looking now. Why would you ruin it?

Because they're silver and everybody has silver! It's boring.

 

[hemisport15]

i like the metallic red that you posted, but i also like the purple and the mystichrome is surprisingly cool. i don't think you could really go wrong with any of the options posted so far.

 

[motortrend]

They would look nice in grigio silvertone IMO

 

[hemisport15]

a real life example of how pearl red looks great on white.

 

[Keef]

a real life example of how pearl red looks great on white.

I agree with you, but there's an important difference here. That car has polished lips to separate the color from the black tires and white car. My wheels don't. With that polished lip in between, you can literally use almost any color combination and it won't look stupid because it's just a three-color combo with two neutral and one ridiculous. Luckily my car is white, but if it wasn't my color options would be extremely limited because I don't have polished lips. You can take a yellow car and give it wheels with polished lips and primary red centers and it would look just fine. But put those colors right next to each other and it looks like McDonald's.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Orange. Neon orange.

 

[Keef]

Don't get me wrong, I would love to put neon orange wheels on this thing. But...I have to drive it every day. Maybe on a weekend car, but I don't want to pull up in that and step out with my JDM pilot-spec shined shoes and black tie.

Then again, I don't think my car is going to look professional any time soon.

 

[CodeRedR51]

I like flashy.

 

[-Fred-]

Don't we all?

Pink. Gramlights 57D pink.

 

[Joey D]

I second pink.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Yeah, pink!

 

[Eric.]

Honda CRX Del Sol Pink.

 

[hemisport15]

I agree with you, but there's an important difference here. That car has polished lips to separate the color from the black tires and white car. My wheels don't. With that polished lip in between, you can literally use almost any color combination and it won't look stupid because it's just a three-color combo with two neutral and one ridiculous. Luckily my car is white, but if it wasn't my color options would be extremely limited because I don't have polished lips. You can take a yellow car and give it wheels with polished lips and primary red centers and it would look just fine. But put those colors right next to each other and it looks like McDonald's.

This may be true, but what if you tried to only paint the face of the wheel and left the outer rim silver or polished it? i don't think that i have ever seen RPF1's finished like that before. Not sure how it would look though... a shop might be in order for that one.

and i vote absolutely no for the pink.

 

[Keef]

Can I have like $5k to change up some things on my car? I'm not happy with a few things I've done, mainly the Stance coilovers. Nothing but a pain in the ass these things have been. Something at the front end of my car is jacked and judging by the amount of trouble I've had with my front coils I'm betting they're causing it. RHDJapan has Cusco Comp-S coils on sale right now but I can't afford them unless they were free so whatevs.

Cusco this, Nagisa that, sprinkle some Super Now and Autoexe here and there, with a dollop of Kaaz on top. And stickers. Stickers everywhere.

EDIT: RE Amemiya all over my face.

Also I curbed one of my wheels a few weeks ago. But screw it it's a race car.

 

[hemisport15]

I say go with Fortune Auto/Broadway Static coils instead.

 

[Keef]

I emailed FA a while back and they said they're not planning any FC applications for low demand reasons. Sucks, because I would have gotten them instead of Stance.

Also this is my buddy Brian's car.

 

[hemisport15]

That's weird. I don't get why they would make them for the Mazda 323/Protege and the Mazda 6, but not for an FC.

 

[Keef]

Yeah I think it's dumb too. There's a big drift and stance following with the FC and it's been getting bigger over the last few years. I think they dropped the balled on that one. They'd have had at least one $1,500 sale from me, at least.

 

[Keef]

 

[Thatman]

Hey, my Fc should be doing that too pretty soon. Luckily my bike already does that really well though. Now get a video.

 

[eiriksmil]

So keef.. When will you lower it?

 

[Rotary Junkie]

So keef.. When will you lower it?

Trolololo.