just bought these wheels ...
 

They look pretty nice on the Cayman, are those 18"..?

What size of tires?

not my car - bought used. fast replikas. 18” x 8.5” and 10” with good offsets. $250 cdn each new! heavy (24 lbs per) but for the street so care more about ‘retro coolness’; have some light oz’s for the track.

Those really look Great!!!!

Looks awesome and good price! I wish they come in 17"... Fuchs are on my list.

$170 per wheel at this site:
https://www.canadawheels.ca/wheels/replika/r186/W39698
No connection so can't say if legit but great price!

so, friend is auto shop teacher at local high school. dropped the wheels off along with four rattle cans of plasti-dip. here is progress so far ...

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02/tape1518128383.jpg

goal is to look like these when finished (stolen from magnus walker blog - old rsr wheels) ...

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not sure about the polished lips however.

Looking forward to the cool kid on the street pix! :cool:

Gotta love those wheels! look like Singer wheels to me :D
Exactly what I wanted to suggest...matt silver greyish finish! I asked my paint shop a while ago...they said it would be extremely difficult to just paint the inner ring, what my idea was for mine.

Or I was just thinking, how would they look in a slight "gun metallic gold" look like the GT2 RS on your silver Boxster.
http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1518130028.jpg
Of course the inner parts need to be blackend, no doubt. :cheers:

i really really really really thought about gold, but gf talked me out of it. thing is, with plasti-dip, i can just peel and redo.

https://rennlist.com/forums/attachme...and-16x8-4.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/61/7d/03/6...sche--gold.jpg

These looks awesome, I have always been a lover of the Fuchs look. Please post a pic when they are mounted. What offset are they?

49 front, 50 rear, which is good as-is. i have 7 and 15 mm spacers however, so am going to put the 15's on the front for 34, and the 7's on the back for 43. plan is 235 on the front and 265 on the rear, so should fill out nicely (my track wheels are 245 w et 38 on the front and 275 w et 40 on the rear and fit is fine).

Awsome. Me like a lot

+1 looks very nice!

Fuchs all the way! Especially with a little deep dish lip going on! Those old school RSR super deep wheels are just freakin' sweet!

I am pretty sure that RPM wheel is a 18" Fuchsfelge painted in gold...awesome on a red car
:cheers:
Here a quick visualization with a more subtle "GT3 RS-like" gold tone
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Very nice! Cant wait to see finished product!

well, got them back and got what i paid for (two cans of plasti-dip and some pizzas). looks like the kids had a hard time taping an even line, and the paint pulled up quite rough when they removed it. live and learn. also don't like how the tops of the 'petals' came out - too squared off and not as rounded as the original fuchs.

so, back to square one. going to get them refinished professionally. the wheels do look good against the car, so may stay with the black, however gold is back on the table.

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1518725939.jpg

so, took the rsr approach to refinishing the wheels - strip, media blast, tape and paint inside the spokes black satin, clear coat satin. here is the result:

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my only concern is that they should have taped at the bottom of the spoke as per the reference images i provided; instead they taped part way up the spokes - should i have them redo?

Personally I believe that as a consumer, you should get what you paid for...especially if you provided pictures of what you wanted done. That being said (I hate that phrase), the results are not leaps and bounds beyond the expectation that you submitted to them. I suppose that the answer really lies with you...do you find the result unacceptable, or is is too minor to quibble over? If you feel that it wasn't completed to your liking, perhaps you can go back and say something like "this is good work, but not completely what I wanted" and see where that goes. I'd guess that they won't do it again for free, but perhaps they would deeply discount, especially if they think you might be a return customer. I always try to find a "win-win" whereas both parties come out ahead, even if there is some compromise.

for sure. i'm certain they would redo for free - it's a very good shop. my question is more regarding the look - i'm thinking it is fine as-is. i've since had a look at images of multiple fuchs done in rsr style and there is a lot of variation. but other opinions more than welcome.

With the radius at the bottom of the spoke, it may be very difficult to get the lines in the same place on both sides of every spoke. It looks like they may have used a scribe going off of the top surface of each spoke for a consistent result.

I don't think it looks bad, but they're your wheels.

With a high contrast colors like these, without a "hard edge" (like a grove or bead) the masked line will always be subjective. Personally I think they did a pretty good job creating a transition line, but like you, I think it would have looked more "natural" at the bottom giving the illusion of a seperate spoke rather than a painted raised area.

Then again, you could have one wheel painted one way and one the other and I don't know if anyone would ever notice (except you, of course). Still, you did pay for it, and I'll stand by my previous statement... you should get what you wanted.

I like that look, but tough call cause I like that reference photo where the light color goes down further. Would suck to have them redone and like the first way best! Good luck.

I’m a big fan of old school original Fuchs deepdish look with thick and proud stars in the middle, so I’d vote for rework. But newer Fuchsfulge wheels are finished similarly with thin-wall painting I guess for more clean, modern look. So your choice!

The actual Fuchswheel design is just like, what they did.
And if they got straight lines, even better. RSR design and Otto Fuchs design (THE original) are a little different. I vote: keep them as they are, the look very good! :cheers:
It is not a biggie anyway.

so, spoke with the wheel guy. it's as particlewave says - much easier to make a straight line if they offset from the top of the spoke than to try and follow the radius at the bottom. and, like cunningr says, i would hate to send them back only to decide i liked this version better. and, as most have said, it's splitting hairs really and this version looks good. so, staying as-is; will hopefully have them this weekend and on the car next week. will post pics and summary of process used to acheive.

I thought the best way to do these is to dip the wheel in the black paint to the required depth to get the even line all around ;)

Need pics of these mounted :)

You'd need a big container filled with paint and that would be very wasteful.
Maybe if you were manufacturing sets, but a paint shop isn't going to do that without charging you for every drop of the 25+ gallons of paint that would require.

Agreed. I remember reading that's how Fuchs did it. Maybe just internet rumours though.
...but a tub made for purpose wouldn't be too hard to do. Fill it with rust oleum... Bake in the oven...
:D

just bought these wheels ...
 

I'm actually thinking about blasting my 17" boxster wheels, polishing the lip and then shooting with Gibbs to go for that retro American racing torque thrust wheel look.
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well, when i asked the wheel guy about why they didn't go to the bottom of the spoke with the black, he took that as direction to go to the bottom of the spoke. the results, lines are a bit rougher, but looks is more old fuchs and less new fuchs.

http://986forum.com/forums/uploads02...1526507446.jpg

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I think i like the older look, after flippng between the pics. Cant wait to see a pic on the car.:dance:

Looks great, too. :cheers:
Not a biggie, if the lines are not that sharp...I couldn't see that, without glasses on.
Can't wait to see them on the Boxster.

Yeah, they did a great job...if they are 10 year old children. When I pay for a "professional" job, I expect much better.

Sorry, but if you can't see that, you're friggin blind. Those lines are absolutely horrid. :barf:

Compared to the first job, the lines look less clean. Even the RSR wheels show problems with the lines btw.
I was considering a paint job too, once...but my paint shop guys warned me, that curves are extremely troublesome to paint and one might notice irregularities.
That is what happened here, they painted the grooves. They should have set the line a little above it. I guess that is why Otto Fuchs' wheels aren't painted all the way to the bottom...there are no sharp edges.
And yes...sometimes I really feel friggin' blind, sucks...but meh. Good excuse when you're old ;)

I suppose you could ask them to re-re-do. Perhaps an 1/8" above bottom? Either way, I like the second attempt better than the "top only", even though that version had cleaner lines. Painting deeper gives more depth, but maybe that's just me...