[link517]

I just got a new set of 993 cup wheels for the street that i am powder coating matte black. Got a pretty good deal and look to be spending a total of 800 bucks, including wheels and tires. Pic is what the car should look like, but the sidewalls on the wheels i used as a comparison are too high.

any thoughts?

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[94'968]

i love it! i have always wanted to do black rims on my car. ive always been a fan of red cars with black rims. so if you havnt gone ahead and powder coated them, id say go for it. looks awesome.

where did you come across the rims at? i would love a set of the cup rims.

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[link517]

I got them from someone on ebay. The description was very vague so i won the auction for $300. I was able to do local pickup, so i did not have to worry about buying replicas or pieces of junk. The wheels are getting sandblasted now. Hopefully should have them back in a week.

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[SILVY968]

Black makes the car look more "race" than "sport".
My taste runs toward silver or chrome.
To each his own, as long as you enjoy driving her!
Brian

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[Johannvb]

One of the guys on the Dutch Porsche forum did the same thing to his 964, but he added a red pin stripe. I think it finishes of the wheel nicely.

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[rhudeboye]

That pic of the 911 looks better.

I think an "all" black rim makes the tires look too bland. Where as if you paint the lip of the rim a contrasting color like red or leave it in its orig metal finish. It will draw your eyes to the tires and complement them instead of it all blurring together.

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[PorscheDude]

Love the matte black look.
I had a set of black wheels on my coupe for awhile and loved it.

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[The_Oz]

That red-pin stripe on the 964 (above) is the old one !!

Rob as replaced it by a more subtile and smaller one [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

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[flash]

wheels are very subjective, and that being said, this is not my thing - reminds me too much of the dated 944 look - one of the things i liked about the 968 was the more updated look of silver wheels

i have seen a couple of cars with painted spokes and silver rims, that i thought looked ok, but i have never liked the entire wheel anything but silver

but, not my car, and that's the important thing - if somebody else likes it, that's cool

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[link517]

flash-- very interesting.I had not thought about that. There are TONS of guards red 944's with the black fuch wheels. Good thing they have the silver lip. . Nice thing is, you can always get more wheels!

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[flash]

yeah - no worries - like i said though, this is a VERY subjective area, and what one guy likes, another may not

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[link517]

Also, flash. there is a pic in the members cars section on the main page of the site. It's guards red, looks like a european model, is on a race track, and has the matte blacked wheels. Anyway to see the original size of the picture, or does anybody know who it is?

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[flash]

sorry - i don't have anything but what is submitted, which is a small shot, as per the instructions on the submission page

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[link517]

I think i am trying to go for a badass look, for lack of a better term. Especially when combined with the numbers on my license plate.

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[PorscheDude]

Great number!!!

I was thinking about getting 666-13 on my wagon.

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[flash]

i used to have that passage from revelations on a plaque on the dash of my blown 440 powered charger with the daytona kit

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[Scott Collins]

+1 on the black rims with red pinstripe. The pinstripe gives it some sort of definition against the all black tire and rim. I'd roll with that.

Also +1 on the original 944 Fuchs rims. I would not want them on my 968, but they always looked right on the 944, and I really prefer them to the egg poacher style rims, which are also called phone dial style.

With my rims, I sometimes have liked the look when they are a bit dirty and gray, and I have thought of having them powder coated to achieve that shade. They will need it soon anyway, because the brake dust from the Pagid pads just never stops. But my car sure does with those pads!

So subjective....

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[banditsc]

The license plate on my 928 is one number from being a perfect plate. Just at complete random, I got the plate ANY 969.

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[link517]

Just mounted the wheels with a new set of Yokohama S Drives

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[968Oz]

Looks great! I put black 993 cups on my polar silver 968 because I wanted to break up the silver. Personally I think red pinstripes looks to fussy. But I also love colour matched wheels like on CSs. Maybe I'm stuck in the 80s/90s, but what is old is new again!

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