Where to get stock bbs painted?
i've check the for sale... 1000 bucks for a set, 850min.... but thats just me... hook me up with your intel man!
i'll paint your rims black if you can find me a set for 270 lol
i'll paint your rims black if you can find me a set for 270 lol
this one?
https://www.i-club.com/forums/norcal-classifieds-96/pair-06-gold-bbs-%2A%2Aonly-%24275%2A%2A-166783/
that was for a pair (2) and they are 06 sti bbs...they wont fit on wrx's
https://www.i-club.com/forums/norcal-classifieds-96/pair-06-gold-bbs-%2A%2Aonly-%24275%2A%2A-166783/
that was for a pair (2) and they are 06 sti bbs...they wont fit on wrx's
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its not the powdercoating that affects the strength of the wheels, its the sandblasting prior to the powdercoat. You can indeed create excessive surface hardness on an aluminum wheel with too aggressive sandblasting, combine this with a lightweight/low mass wheel and it can fail under hard use. Although its rare, as a matter of fact Ive only heard of it once, that one time with the pics of the corvette wheels that floated around on all forums a couple years back that I think we're all referring to. All thats usually required to take off wheel paint is glass bead blasting, but this takes longer and most powdercoat shops that just coat fences and lawn chairs all day long have no clue about all of this. If you can get majority of paint off yourself beforehand with aircraft stripper so that they only needed to quickly hit them to prep them for powder you should be safe and could probably get some money knocked off the price of the powdercoat. Blacks the cheapest color for them anyways since they do black all day long and can just throw your wheels in with the next batch
<------ putting those 2 semesters of metallurgy to good use!
<------ putting those 2 semesters of metallurgy to good use!
its not the powdercoating that affects the strength of the wheels, its the sandblasting prior to the powdercoat. You can indeed create excessive surface hardness on an aluminum wheel with too aggressive sandblasting, combine this with a lightweight/low mass wheel and it can fail under hard use. Although its rare, as a matter of fact Ive only heard of it once, that one time with the pics of the corvette wheels that floated around on all forums a couple years back that I think we're all referring to. All thats usually required to take off wheel paint is glass bead blasting, but this takes longer and most powdercoat shops that just coat fences and lawn chairs all day long have no clue about all of this. If you can get majority of paint off yourself beforehand with aircraft stripper so that they only needed to quickly hit them to prep them for powder you should be safe and could probably get some money knocked off the price of the powdercoat. Blacks the cheapest color for them anyways since they do black all day long and can just throw your wheels in with the next batch
<------ putting those 2 semesters of metallurgy to good use!
<------ putting those 2 semesters of metallurgy to good use!