William's 330Ci ZHP Maintenance and Project Thread

[BMWCurves]

Forgot to update after I painted the mounting hardware for the Bimmian cell phone bracket and ProClip cell phone mount. I used the same paint that I used for the lower mesh grille refresh I did here.




I think it looks quite good, better than the stainless steel beforehand.

In other news, I'm still waiting for Apex to do their 17" ARC-8 group buy

I am stuck on wheel color now. I thought I wanted Hyper Black, but now I'm considering Anthracite. A while back I had spotted another Orient Blue ZHP while browsing through Google that had ARC-8s and I liked how it looked. Turned out it was OtterEffect's car. He has 18x9" ET42 Apex ARC-8s in Anthracite so I shot him a PM asking for more pictures and these are what he sent me (I hope he doesn't mind me reposting them). I think the Anthracite color looks very good on Orient Blue, but I can't decide if it's too dark and after-markety or not. I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts!

[Sockethead]

I think they look pretty good on there
What color hyper black are you thinking about? I can't remember. There are so many different variations....

[Vas]

Darios old car. Still looks great

[Sockethead]

I don't remember sorry ... My memory is shot from chasing 2 yr old twins
Here's the hyper silver wheels on my car

[jhs1210]

Damn, those do look good!


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[johnrando]

Mount looks good. Both those colors are sweet, tough choice. I know, not much help.

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[san]

Don't think you can go wrong with either but I'm a bit biased towards anthracite


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[ELCID86]

Don't think you can go wrong with either but I'm a bit biased towards anthracite


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Same here.


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"ZHP is a garbage option anyway- just some cosmetic upgrades with a different cam and diff to claw back some of the performance lost fitting those hideous and heavy wheels. Any 330 with a 3.46 diff will smoke a ZHP every time. The whole Mafia thing reeks of childish behavior." - an e46f member

[BMWCurves]

I think they look pretty good on there
What color hyper black are you thinking about? I can't remember. There are so many different variations....

What brand wheels are those that you have in your pics? And I'm referring to Apex's "Hyper Black." The best photos I could scrounge on E46s with Hyper Black ARC-8s on a car with dark exterior paint are below:













And then another dark car on Anthracite ARC-8s:

[Sockethead]

The ones on my car are cheap eBay wheels lol. $500 shipped. I needed some wheels in a hurry...
They are holding up surprisingly well.