ZHPizza's red car

[Hornung418]

Not that I'm all that offended, but I'm surprised TT would put this ad on Pizza's thread.

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Lolol that's the screen cap that Rob took and it's showing you a picture preview of the thread. It's confusing, but I imdie every time I see it lmfao

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[ZHPizza]

Arc8update!

So I got home Thursday night and found some THICC hoes by my garage...and the 18x9.5 wheels were hella wide too ayooo



Nah but for real I was like damn how I gonna fit these bitties I ain't even kno

Turns out my local shop was open on Friday while I was off, but their bays were full, so they could swap my tires over if I brought the wheels in loose. So I washed the whip, snagged one last pic with the Alzors, and got her up on the quickjack so I could gank her shoes.



Then called in the touring:



Got the wheels back that afternoon and was like damn. Like. Those 235s are ridic wide.



Here they are lined up for a comparo. Left is 235/40 on 18x9.5, right is 255/35 on 18x8.5. Coopers ftw.



Test mounted and we good to go!

[ZHPizza]

BUT WAIT

Everything gotta get coated first.

I washed the wheels real good like and left em overnight to dry. Got up early Saturday morning and set up a work station to apply Optimum Gloss Coat to every surface of the wheels and the center caps.



Brake dust got nothing. On. Me.

BUT WAIT

I have 24 hours for the coating to cure and these wheel bolts are hot garbage. Can't have them looking all janky on my shiny new wheels! I thought about buying new ones, but tryna live that reduce/reuse/recycle lyfe, so....

LET'S REFINISH SOME WHEEL BOLTS

Chucked all 20 of them little buggers up in a drill and worked a wire brush all up in their nooks and crannies.




Plugged them into a cardboard box for a couple coats of paint and left them for the day to dry.





Y'all want some progress pics? HAVE SOME PROGRESS PICS

BINGO


BANGO


BONGO


"Oh but pizza pants you'll chip all of that paint off when you put a socket on them"

PLASTIC BAG TRICKAROO



Ayyye

[704sw]

You have a soft touch/coated 17mm socket?

[Sockethead]

Man, I need to do that to my wheel hardware....

[ZHPizza]

And the finished goods:

The suspension hadn't settled yet, but damn girl

[Stigissimo]

Arc8update!

So I got home Thursday night and found some THICC hoes by my garage...and the 18x9.5 wheels were hella wide too ayooo

Those are some large loaves of bread you’ve got sitting out there near your wheels


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[slater]

hot dang, those look the business!

and frig man, nice work on the coating and the wheel bolts... your Professional Engineer Brain has ideas and patience that mine can't match.




oh, and i loved the shot of the Touring swallowing up 8 wheels and 4 tires.

[ZHPizza]

You have a soft touch/coated 17mm socket?

I same-day-ed this bad boy Saturday morning. The paint on the bolts wasn't fully cured, so I used a plastic bag in the socket to keep from marring em up too bad. They still took some damage when being torqued down, but whatevs. I wasn't about to wait 5 days to mount my wheels just so some stupid paint can harden up.

Man, I need to do that to my wheel hardware....

ye u do

Those are some large loaves of bread you’ve got sitting out there near your wheels

they squat

hot dang, those look the business!

and frig man, nice work on the coating and the wheel bolts... your Professional Engineer Brain has ideas and patience that mine can't match.




oh, and i loved the shot of the Touring swallowing up 8 wheels and 4 tires.

hah! It worked out since I had a lot of down time. Was going out with friends Saturday, so I did the coating that morning since they would have time to cure. Then painted the bolts Sunday morning before leaving for the day to see family and put it everything together Sunday night. Just worked in the steps where I could.

The touring shot was totes for you, Peterman. I laid out all of the wheels/tires and was like....I...I just don't know how I'm going to fit this in that little car...

Then I got going and realized it had TONS of room. Like, I could have easily fit another set of wheels and the dogs in there.

[ZHPizza]

Now as far as fitment goes, I had some concerns with the 18x9.5 et35. So much so that I busted out the grinder to cut down the plastic extrustion on the rear fender liners along with the stud for the fender clip.

You can see where the tire rub had already worn it down when I had spacers in the rear:


Grounded:


Turns out the rear fitment isn't all that aggressive. I still need to hit some dips with a full tank of gas, but it looks ok for now:


The front is pretty dang pushed out though: