I just got these HP R5's 18x8's. They were supposed to be black but the shop sent me the wrong color. Im either going to paint them or powder coat them black next week. I like how they look now but they clash with my color skeme. If i paint them im going to sell my old 18's. These pictures are from a car show at an Engineering office called Miltec. They make missles or something.

 

Oh man - don't paint'em - those look great as is! Car looks great.
Did you decide what you're going to do about your headlights?

 

why dont you post supersized pics? these are tizziny mannnnng

i like those, they have a nice fat lip and i think if you paint them you should only do the star black or graphite and let the lip shine, thats what id do, but it looks good man, really good.

 

Man, you hurt my feelings with those wheels!!! If only you were in LA, I could recommend a place that does excellent powdercoat for $30 a wheel.

 

paint or powdercoat em, thats awfully bright..slap bright wheels on dark cars, dark wheels on white cars..course, those rims are 2" bigger than I'd ever put on a max...

 

Man your car with that body kit and no spoiler looks so sweet. The only thing I don't like about that body kit is the exhaust cutout...it's too squared off and too big.

But anyhow I wish mine looked like yours. Hell that's what they SHOULD'VE looked like from the factory IMO.

 

yea, sweet maxima. every time im in the 3rd gens forum, i would look around. i noticed your car is fully painted now. looks great. just to give you an idea, i powder coated my 18in c2's black. heres a crapy pic. are you gonna leave a silver lip?

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y15...mmaxima003.jpg

 

Im going to tape off the lip and the studs. Everything else is going to be black exactly like this

 

crappy pic . . .

i had to take the wheels off so they could be painted.

 

As far as my headlights im going to keep them black and just do a H.I.D. kit. Jbr8ke inspired me to do my mesh grille. I did it before, and didnt like it, but im going to paint the mesh black this time and put like 40 clear coats on it to make it sparkle. I need new corners too.

 

i say keep them silver....

 

I kind of like them silver But it's your money, and your car. A lot better style than your last.

 

word, I like the plain silver wheels. Looks good IMO. You'll have a great looking car there nonetheless!!

 

I think your black wheels with the silver center rings accentuate the car's styling better. The silvers still look good, but not as good if you ask me.

 

i think that since the car is white, the black wheels actually look better. If the car were any other color, then silver wheels would be the way to go

 

If I keep the wheels silver should I change my headlights? Also does anyone know where to get Z rated tires for real cheeeeeap?

 

Race Track.

you're better off with a lower rated tire that's good than a z rated tire that's cheap.

 

The silver looks better on white...dark wheels dont go as well.

 

I paid $75 each for my Kumho 711's from tirerack.com. The 225/40/18 (what I have) is a z rated tire. They are good tires especially for the money. At least they are here in MS where you dont have to worry about snow. They should never be driven in snow though.

with an 8" wide wheel you really need 235s though and I dont know if they make the 711 in 235/40/18s.


edit...I also like the wheels in silver better...the headlights shouldnt matter about the wheels. I understand what you are getting at though...black and white only on the car but I just dont like black wheels period...especially on a white car. That is just my opinion and the black wheels dont look bad just not the style I like...but do what you like not what I or anyone else likes.

 

i think they dont make them in 235/40/18 but if they did they would probably be around 120 apiece. atleast thats what the other kuhmo tires are running in that size.

 

if anything i'd try and get the corners to match the headlights a little better. other than that the silver wheels really improve the look of the car overall...

 

looks great, what does the headlight conversion cost?

 

Nice ride!!!

I am definately in love with the E36 conversion. Is is a difficult install? In terms or wiring and body mods.

 

all the above also what about clear corners where do you get the bmw headlights and conversion kit?

 

hellooooo newbies.....

there is no kit for this convesion. check out our stickies and see the links to it. www.geocities.com/bmwconversion/

took me bout 8 hours with breaks and what not. pretty straight forward, my next step will be to get them flush with the body.

just to give you a quick idea, here are some photos.

http://gregg-henry.com/gallery/E36-Headlight-conversion

 

I still think it would look better if you painted the spokes black..

 

Spokes would look good in black. I understand that there is no kit but I dont want the regular E36 lights. I would prefer the projectors. I just figure that since I would be doing a mod might as well go all the way.

 

well all the way can be taken a couple ways, is that projectors? is that hid? is that flush mounted? or is that all the above? or is all the way doing a cefiro conversion? hmmm.....hid isnt cheap, projectors are not cheap and getting the projectors in can be tricky.

reason i did the regular e36s was i got them for 40 bucks and after gathering up the parts, i didnt feel spending over 200 on headlights would be that great of an idea, ill be flush mounting mine with the headlight covers this summer and calling that "all the way".

 

By all the way I mean HID with angel eyes projector. I remeber seeing a pic on here of a max with one but he was having a problem wiring the projectors or something.

 

looks great...
- my friend painted his volks.. its bad ***

 

Just did the grille. You cant really see it. Ill get better pictures later. As for my headlights im going to do what therealgoon did with the wade clear headlight covers over the e36's and the corners.