Got my 17 Fr500 installed this weekend took quick snaps of them. Will get better pics soon. 17x9 with kumho 275-40 and rear 17x10.5 with sumis 315-35. :wowspring What do you think?

 

nice, welcome to the FR500's club!!!!

 

Nice! Welcome to the winning team! Lol

 

I hate clicking the links ******. LoL it's okay though. :P those are very nice, that makes me think twice now. I just got my rims painted too, could of saved that money for the Fr500's. How much did it cost you for the rims?

Are Toyo Proxes 4 Good?

 

They cost me about 800 all in all bcuz I had the front tires already. I heard toyo's are good.

 

nice, another white stang...brings back memories

 

That looks great! Welcome to the FR500 club haha

 

Very nice! Love the fr500s
May I recommend painting your calipers? They look a little sad against the rich blackness that are your fr's

 

$200 per a rim? Yeah I heard the same and they used them on Tokyo Drift the movie. I like mine, they look sick as hell, but I wasn't sure. I know they expensive and I'm like damn I'm glad mine are new, because they came with the car.

How would you go about painting them? Mine are the same as his, but yeah.

Do they even make dish Cobra R rims? Why does everyone get the FR500's? Just the looks.

 

Looks sick dude!!

 

Yes of course you can that same thing came to my mind. What brand of paint do you recommend any specific place to get it cheap? What about color what color would look good?

 

Go to autozone and pick up a duplicolor caliper paint kit (brush on type), get black.

But buy a different brush, the one in the kit sucks.

 

nice! nice! nice! fr500's look greeeeeaaaaat

 

Personally, I prefer the duplicolor rattle can over the brush on. I have done about a dozen calipers now with the stuff and usually grab a plastic grocery bag and make a hole in it and pull it over the caliper with it on the rotor, then tape off anything else I do not want painted. Many nice even coats and you get a high gloss finish. I'm sure there are many threads about this, but I like red or black, depending on the car. I have red up front and black in back. Crazy me.
Black makes them look new and low profile, red looks sporty.
I helped my friends do something ricey a few months back... dark green 00 maxima, they grabbed some simple high temp engine enamel in bright neon green and had me help them paint their calipers... omg, so bright, so painful.

 

Yeah people keep telling me that I need to paint mine because I just had my rims Powered Coated Gloss Balck mutiple times. They were like just spray paint the Caliper while it is on.

Wouldn't it be better just to take it off and Spray paint it to make it look nicer? I think red Calipers and Black rims looks badass.

 

+1 i prefer the rattle can too. Just take the time to tape off. You'll find that prepping/taping will take longer than the actual painting.

Man I never thought of doing them neon green, I might have to look into that. LOL.

 

Unless you want to literally remove the caliper from the assembly and remove the brake lines, then removing the caliper and having it hanging around (not by the brake line!) in the wheel well will prove to be considerably harder to paint, and would require you to block off everything in the wheel well. =/

 

nice rims... so how are those sumis 315-35 tires working for ya?

 

look PCola has a big brother.

 

Yeah...our cars really don't look all that alike..lol

 

Looks good, lately I have been wishing my FR500 rims were black. The rental cars are looking good as a collective group now. We should have a white Mustang picture thread of all the white cars here.

 

i was the original white with black FR's lol. except for maybe that one chick that used to frequent here and had a built white gt

 

Pfft, I've always wanted them I just couldn't afford them. Haha

 

They are doing ok not the best they do hold up the power somewhat better than my old kumho 275's only diff is that my old ones screeched like **** when they spun and these don't make noise almost at all when you them. I think I will go for red in the calipers.

 

Yes, do red calipers, take a picture, and show us. I want to see, because I'm debating if I want to do it or not. Oh and explain how you did it. LoL

If the 315's aren't doing the best, then what are? :/ I'm trying to figure out what to do and what to get. I'm thinking about the same rims. What does the 315 and the 15 mean?

 

Google is still like the plague to you.
This has been stated dozens of times.
But I will re-iterate.
315/35/R17
The first number is the width of the tire in millimeters.
The Second number is the sidewall height as a ratio.
The third number is the wheel size.
So this tire has a contact patch roughly 315mm wide and a sidewall height of roughly 110mm. (35% of 315)
That is the reason you put tires with a smaller second number on the rear of a mustang with wide tires, because if you put the same number the tire would be much taller considering it is much wider.

 

looks good man!

 

Thanks everyone

 

looks sick man