how popular (or overdone) is this setup? Having a silver car I think kinda limits the wheel selection and its hard to picture certain wheels on the car. So many wheels are silver and I feel that silver (even the stock 08 wheels) kinda get lost on the car because they're the exact same color.

I'm thinking primarily gunmetal, maybe some kind of hyper black.... maybe even Time Attack....

any thoughts or better yet, pictures??

 

I really like the look of black wheels w/ machined lip on silverstone or silver alloy. For some reason I prefer the machined lip over a polished lip, not sure why.

 

I agree 100 percent.

 

BLACK is the way to go.

I have gunmetal now on mine and I wish it was darker. go black. satin black. you can see pics of my old wheel setup, this is the only one I have handy:



here are the new rims:

 

personally im going to buy 19 inch black rims and match it with a 15/20% tint on my silver z. maybe once i get more money ill also mod my lights and smoke them and all that but for now just the rims and the tints

 

hmm I see black and gunmetal both look good... I wonder if time attacks would be a bit too much...

 

In my opinion, Time Attacks look good on true track cars and not so much on street cars. I dunno if that makes any sense.

 

no no no no no no no no no no no.

personally I don't like it. if you have other red accents it might work (brake calipers... seats, pinstripe maybe) but otherwise I wouldn't. all black looks ridiculous in person. the only problem is most pictures kind of suck with black wheels. you can't see all the detail.

 

I have black rims on my silver Z and love it..I am going for the whole black/silver theme...and am well on my way..will post pics in October when everything is done.




Pics are crappy but you get the picture

Evo

 

will-evo: you should paint the yellow bumper lights black. i did mine, and it looks so much better, and definitely matches up better with the black rims

 

good point, that's why I was wondering if it would look like its too much... I've never seen time attacks on any car in person.

maybe gunmetal with a machined lip? or no lip? decisions decisions.... good thing I have until the spring to decide! (riding stocks until winter, getting 17" winter wheels/tires, and new summer wheels in the spring)

 

Silver on SBC:

Silver on black w/lip

 

I absolutely HATE polished or silver lips of any kind with black or colored face rims. hate them.

the only thing to keep in mind (and something I didn't really count on) is how the color of the rims affects how the color of the car looks. gunmetal is a blue-ish gray and makes the silver appear more on the blue scale, then on the white side of the spectrum.

I am surprised no one else has posted pictures. there is an entire thread devoted to Chrome Silver cars you can check out.

 

OMG I love the AME rims so much. they are my new #2 favorite. in gold, oh~sigh

the SBC looks great as well.