Junkyard build

[Randomofodication]

got the backs installed


and made a trip to pick n pull and picked up 2 wheels, 16" Enkei racing S wheels, they only had 2 of them but for 20 bucks each i couldn't resist. might do a mismatched setup, or might just clean theses up repair/repaint them and sell them but dunno yet.


if i do repaint them I'm thinking of going with a bronze for the centers and polishing the lip up to a nice chrome look again

[mustard_madman]

Dont do mismatched wheels. It makes you look trashy on purpose.

[OneLowCivic]

this makes me want to drive to a pick and pull and i just happen to have the largest in the country down the road.

i fully blame you

[austindavidg]

Hahaha this is awesome!

[OpelWagenGT]

Keep it up! This is one of my favorite reads right now.

-Aron

[Randomofodication]

thanks for the compliments and comments guys!
so lil bit of an update...
I started tearing down the Enkei's i got. paint is almost completely stripped off. Getting close to being able to start priming the centers

and got all the black paint of the bolts, all 80 or so of them. they were a pain to strip, paint would get stuck in all the little dips in the bolt head. but they're done now and it was totally worth it. looks way better then flat black. and the centers caps still need to be stripped, i figure the lettering will just get painted a different colour then the rest of the wheel. gonna be a pain to paint or mask off tho lol


and i found a second set of wheels for the front these aren't from pick n pull though. found these on Kijiji and snagged em up for 80 bucks. couldn't resist it's my happy birthday gift to me!

they need a toooon of work though, I am definitely not looking forward to cleaning another 80 bolts.

the lips need a ton of polish to get them to a mirror finish like I'd like them to have.

pretty excited though. i think if both sets are painted the same colour with mirror finish lips they'll compliment each other quite nicely

they're also 3 piece never owned a set of 3 or 2 piece rims so this is gonna be quite the learning experience for me to say the least.

gonna be a lot of work till I move on to painting them all, also i have to wait for it to warm up a fair bit its still hovering around -1C out which is no good for painting. so far I am thinking of painting the centers a light gold almost beige colour like this:

but I'm open to suggestions! was also thinking of doing white but it seems almost kinda boring and would be almost impossible to keep clean.

[DragginWagonII]

Think youde be better off cleaning up one pair and selling them for somethign that will match the other pair.

[Randomofodication]

Started on the bolts! only 76 or so more to go lol

so far they're coming out better then i had thought

also made a wheel bolt restoration guide thingy showing how I did it http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/sh...066#post711066

[NorCalFocus]

Think youde be better off cleaning up one pair and selling them for somethign that will match the other pair.

This.

If I were you, I'd be searching CL everyday looking for a match to one pair of wheels.

[projecthoarder]

What I would do is put one set of rims on one side and the other set on the other, but match the offsets from side to side. Nice junkyard finds btw.

[wickedsnake00]

Looks like a fun build.

I love to watch junkyard builds, partially because I do it myself. I just wish I could score some awesome finds like you did, there's rarely anything aftermarket in the ones around here.

...and if you do find more Neon aftermarket parts...

[244Brick]

What I would do is put one set of rims on one side and the other set on the other, but match the offsets from side to side. Nice junkyard finds btw.

I so agree with this guy^^^^+1

[Randomofodication]

unfortunately the 2 sets are different sizes. I'll keep looking on craigslist and kijiji for matching sets but i doubt I'll find anything. either way I'll end up fixing the wheels up so I'll see how it looks when they're done or possibly find a matching pair. also doesn't help that these wheels seem to be the perfect size and offset to fill up the front and rear arches so I'm still very tempted to use them

[Randomofodication]

not too worried about mismatched wheels, seen a couple that look really good. but we'll see how it turns out lol. hopefully it doesn't look horrible

[AllGo'N'Show]

DUDE YOU FOUND KW V1'S in Calgary PnP???? Lucky bastard!!! hahah Just fluke or do you work there?