Ferrari Mailing List: Re: 308 wheels

[Allan (allan]

btw, I refinished my gold mesh spoked BBS to silver.  The center part mesh
comes out easily enough with a lot of allen keying, but we discovered
that it was magnesium.

The first 5 auto painters I called would not touch it with a 10' pole.
Called an aircraft painter and he said "no problem".  ironically, the
aircraft industry gave up on magnesium a long time ago because of
corrosion issues.

allan



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael James <cavallino_rapante [at] yahoo.com>

On the wheel note, BBS had a nice gold mesh-spoke wheel available (would need 
refinishing, but a full set turns up on ebay fairly often for not-much $$$), 
and Nick's Forza also has a set available for the TRX-shod cars....not a fan of 
the Nick's Forza design, but it does fit and offers a 'lip' if you like that in 
a wheel (which I do).  I just don't care for the spoke design.  I believe 
Nick's Forza does NOT need a wheel spacer, whereas SuperPerformance's wheels do 
(but are included with-purchase).