Kenshin X

i wish i could drive just like him

not only up hills, but if i give it just a bit it slips on the straights too :(

jdm: priority is clutch and lightened flywheel. my clutch carked it before i went to lakes entrance. life without lift = sucks balls shinobi: yeah, i love you too man

excuse me? u 500%+ lost me there

lol, ur insane. one of my clients named me "the green lantern" she couldn't have thought a more gay name... so i asked her, "what if my rims were red?" "Flash" "oh for fuks sake" "lawl" the end -_-

i don't disagree with this but the majority of them are of As***** ethnicity :P after arriving home form lakes entrance i know why the road toll soars during the holidays. freaken stupid drivers...

LOL, cash... probably mummy/daddy's money. Go through insurance is the only way these international drivers will learn. otherwise, they will just keep asking their mummy/daddy for more money for "schooling" LOL :P

thanks mate, yeah that's how i always cleaned them... minus the inside because i cannot reach it... so the colour "fade" shouldn't be my fault...

thanks for the input guys, yeah i did ask him to send me information on how to maintain powder coated rims, but he never sent me the email... i will definately go to them tomorrow and ask for the job to be done again

Lol. What about the tiny holes? Would they be because they did it too thin as well? Cuz it seems it only occurs where the roughness is

haha yeah thanks buddy. usually i'm not the type to go into the shop showing my unhappy face. but sometimes it does work against me... :( mansutti bros have been around for many years (the phone number without the "9" in the front is still on the shop window :P) Eviltwin: get to it

repco son... repco... :D

Some parts of the rims are starting to fade... So taking pictures of the faded areas... Look here... I took one of the best rim to let you guys see how the black nuts look on the green rims :) better looking than the chrome rusted ones ;) although i cannot source black allen key lock nuts for these wheels... but these are coming off soon anyways and throwing my stockies back on since these are only for the track.

Well here are some pics... This one shows overall where the fading occurred... (this is actually the good rim - less of the fading but still some tiny pin holes) Some pin holes on a spoke Some fading in between the spokes Some examples of "mirrored finish" areas DJKOR: yeah i researched a bit on PC vs. paint but i chose PC for a couple of reasons. one was the durability and two was that they are not prone to cracking like painted wheels are. I was aware that the colour will fade over time but i reckon that depends on where and how often you maintain the colour. I park my car undercover 90% of the time so the colour should not have faded this soon. 1 year... maybe acceptable but not 1 month. Ronnyboy: So when i bring it back what should i tell them? like they may bull5hit to me saying, oh the colours prone to fading etc. but i know that those tiny pin holes are not meant to be there. it looks like when they sandblasted it, they didn't clean the excess off properly hence there is sand roughness like finish on certain areas of the rims. I did notice there was some roughness on some parts of the rim wheni picked them up but i disregarded thinking it was the rim itself. But the colour underneath says otherwise? sand = yellow colour? i just want to go in prepared as i don't want to be knocked back thinking its my fault the rims are fading so soon. i have tried to research online how bad PC products would look like but all i get is how good they are compared to painting them plus peeling and cracking if not heated properly etc... also would they have to sandblast and powder coat them again, or would they just do another coat on top to mask the imperfections? cheers guys

my powder coated rims are beginning to fade already :( the areas that are fading would be mostly in the spokes where they meet the center hub (if that makes sense?) i also see that on the other rims, the same part that had the smoother finish has not begin to fade yet... bad PC job? should i return it to the guy to get them to do it again? only problem is i'm going to spend more money to get the tyres off and back on to the other stockies... *sigh* what do i do? only been less an a month i believe since i got them PCed

update: just got back from lakes entrance and went to my aunties house to drop a few things off... so this guy in an aqua polo top comes up to me and introduced himself as the husband of the woman who reversed into my car. "Can you withdraw the claim with the insurance when my wife reversed into your car?" I take a 5 second deep breath... "... ...... .........no, Happy New Year to you." Drove off. These people don't bloody give up do they? I should have just got her details and drove off... maybe i'm too nice. If i wasn't this nice, i wouldn't have to repeat myself over and over again.

Happy New Year people! Just letting you guys and girls know something is happening towards the end of the month... Stay Tuned! ;)

possibly tracking on australia day... if the weather isn't too hot...

looking good guys. these meets can only get BIGGER and BETTER did you catch any fish? LOL cuz here we are catching heaps at lakes entrance :P

hi welcome to the forums mate. I use hpr5 on mine. My current kms is 9x,xxx. 15W60 might be too thick at this stage. Just my opinion though. Id run hpr5 til it breaks doesnt matter how many kilometres its done