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Gold plated Volks.

Young Roids

Young Roids

Banned
''Being what I consider a purveyor of quality JDM tuning I often challenge myself to great degrees as I aim to push the boundaries of how we see conventional tuning. At the same time I must also balance the respect of the core principals that I love. These wheels simply put, are pushing the boundary.

For the latest car project I’m completing, I must satisfy my clients desire for bling and showmanship while retaining my hardcore JDM roots. Later on I’ll release my original concept for the project, which ultimately was changed as I was required last minute to paint the car to the new specification of the client (Red). Personally I dont like red cars at all so that posed a lot of frustrating challenges on its own. But working with the needs of the project, I wanted to find a wheel spec and style to match a show car quality red paint hue that unexpectedly forced on to the project. So, what did I do? I decided to embrace the bling and set out to do the first set I’ve ever seen of 24 karat gold racing wheels.

Knowing that adding the gold plating would increase the weight slightly I set out for the lightest wheel with the most agressive size I could find. 19×10 and 19×11 Volk Racing RE30s were the answer. After refinishing the wheel in real 24K gold, the result was still a very impressive weight of 21.55lbs, damn good for any wheel of that size!

While keeping strength and light weight function in tact, I can still say the famous Chappelle quote: This wheel is “The Most Baller S#!T Ever!”

Feel free to comment about how sacrilegious it is to take a racing wheel and gold plate it, I’m ok with the love and the hate mail. Sometimes I’m confident enough to go against my own theories and still reach the desired result…same goes with my gold S2000 when I made my own aero parts by mixing and matching and modifying while at the same time I always talk about the proven theory that mix and match aero doesnt function properly.

I feel that if the confidence, strategy and skill is there then rules are meant to be broken from time to time. ''
 
ij1889

ij1889

New Member
18 inches is pushing it for performance, 19 is just for looks, and those fuckers are heavy
 
dmention7

dmention7

Hater
ij1889 said:
18 inches is pushing it for performance, 19 is just for looks, and those fuckers are heavy
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In all fairness, for the size of the wheels, that's actually really damn light still. The factory racing harts on my car (17x7) were even a smidge heavier than those!

That said, I'm almost never a fan of bling for bling's sake. And that's exactly what those wheels are.
 
Schmitty

Schmitty

New Member
I'm not a big fan of bling, but for the size, they aint that heavy. Then again, the size is ridiculous.
 
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JustROLLIN

Guest
Why would anyone take sweet wheels like Volks and destroy them?
 
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JustROLLIN

Guest
Yeah, what happens when he gets a stone chip on one of those wheels? Does he run through the streets looking for the $40 chunk that just fell off his wheels?
 
mndsm

mndsm

I'M OFFENDED!
If you on balla status enough to gold plate them rimz, you ain't worried about chippin' em.
 
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spek1098

Guest
I doubt there is more then an once of gold between all 4 wheels. Takes very little gold, only a few microns thick, to plate something.
 
mndsm

mndsm

I'M OFFENDED!
I guarantee you, if the vatos tell you where those rims are at, they're already gone.
 
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