im in the process of stripping and refinishing a set of black crosslaces for my 92, i have 3 ready for polishing, but im wondering, instead of just painting the centers black and a polished lip, has anybody painted the wheels a different color that the black/gold? how about painting the lip a color as opposed to polished?

any pics of something like this? I kinda want to do something different, but would like some ideas, maybe some photochops of different color combos?

 

How about the ones that were on my wife's autocross 90? Purple w/yellow stripes & matching yellow centered wheels?

 

I've seen the center parts painted all kinds of colors. Well not too many colors. Yellow, gray, black, gold, and I think I saw them done in white once. Personally I'd leave the polished lip alone. I think that is the best look. As for what to paint the center part, well that would depend on the color of the car.

 

thats not to much of a variation off the gold, and the car they are going on is yellow, i just think it would be a little overkill on the yellow end.

Since nobody chimed in earlier, i said screw it and am sticking with polished lip and black center. In the process of sealing the polished parts now.

 

I ran mine naked for a little while, looked pretty cool.

 

Honestly I think the black spokes look best on most cars.

 

i just did a set for mine and did them in black and with the polished lip it really sets it off

 

The centers are powder coated Silver along with polished lip.

 

You do know they came in a large variation from the factory, even had the option for them to be painted red... which i think would look horrible. ive seen very many colors on them, red,white,black, gold, yellow, even a burnt orange color that someone had painted to match their car. Mine were black when i bought the car but were faded badly and chipping. Underneath the black was gold which led me to believe they were originally gold and painted black by someone. So i stripped them and painted them back to gold, granted my car is white but IMO they look much better gold on a white car then black.