Probably not to everyone's taste but I fancied a change and my alloys were a bit of a mess anyway so they have gone from THIS to THIS

Took a fair time sanding and filling all the chips etc but I managed to get quite high on the paint fumes, which was nice !

nice job, it's a laborious task and you have done a cracking job there

Cheers mate it sure was laborious !

It's rewarding when something goes right for a change though

Good job well done

Just bought some nice drilled MTEC discs to go behind them now, dammit if I hadn't touched the alloys I'd of been content with the old rusty discs !

That will be you on the slippery slope, no stopping now ,get the plastic out

Might aswell do the brembos now !

Very nice

Already done the Brembos seals an all, even got new braided HKS lines to them ! and the rear calipers, turbo, oil cooler, CHOD and a few other pipes and bobs.

And im not going to add it all up either

very nice , what paint did you use ?

Was Ford Graphite grey from Halfords. Seem to remember it was a popular choice for an alternative colour a while back ??

Fitted to car, just got to bleed the brakes, again !

Pic 1
Drilled discs

they look very nice on the car Ryan

Any issues with the paint bubbling/blistering on the fronts?

With the heat I mean.

Cheers nismo
I've not driven the car yet but unless I get a seized caliper and roast the disc I don't forsee the paint on the wheel being subjected to any real heat TBH.

You'd be very surprised at just how much heat is generated from not only the brakes, but the tyre as well.

Ever touched your wheel/caliper after a drive?

Yeah I have but the fact I can touch it at all and not get burned suggests that the paint is in no danger of blistering. The wheels do have the advantage of cooling as they spin in the surrounding air.
The caliper would obviously be much hotter and the paint has a higher threshold ie. different paint.

Im sure if it all goes pete tong i'll no doubt post my woes on here !

I just mentioned it due to my own experience - I painted as set of 20VT rims for the 16, rears were fine, fronts developed blisters, which I can only put down to the heat.

I'll keep an eye on them, out of interest did you lacqer them ?

I did yeah, although I should point out, I didnt use any VHT paint, probably where i went wrong.

Maybe a coat of VHT first, then colour, then VHT clear would be ok?

Nor me man so i'll see how it goes, i was pretty carefull to give the colour coat a good key to the primer and used petrol resistant lacqer.

Cheers

Fingers crossed