The build of SVT #3658

For the past week or so, I have been driving around on stock fat 6 spokes with bald tires. I had taken the tires off of my 5 spokes, had them straightened, and had them powdercoated.

The color choice was kind of tough. I was tossing around ideas.....black, gold, silver, burgundy, and even some crazy off the wall colors.

I wanted them to look like properly finished wheels for once (the finish was pretty bad when I bought them, someone had gotten brake fluid on them, and since then I just kept spraybombing them). I wanted to do a crazy color, but I kept thinking about resale value. It would be hard to resell them if I ever wanted to if they were some bright color...

I was at the powdercoating place, and was asking about colors. They had the standards, gold, silver, black. They had some off the wall bright colors, then I asked about burgundy....they actually had a ton in stock. Some guy had started a motorcycle business and burgundy was going to be his signature color. He paid for a LOT of burgundy powder, then went out of business so they have it sitting around. Perfect.

Then I asked about metallic, and he told me he has some special metallic stuff that the PC company made specifically for him for a customer in the past, and it was VERY high metallic. Excellent, here's my wheels, valve cover, and SRI

I got them back the other day, but haven't had a chance to get the tires put on them. Last night, magic happened
















It is really tough to get the color and glitter to show up properly in pictures, so I tried taking them from a bunch of different angles and levels of sun These pictures don't even come close to capturing the HUGE amount of reflections from the metallic flake in the wheels

And as for the fender that says "WAHOO!" and "Massacre" on it.....I turned one time too many while tucking monster truck tires. A new one will be on soon.

NorCalFocus wrote:You'll have the k sports before you would have had the DGR's.

SVT3658 wrote:My wheels are Burgundy, and super high metallic (glittery) ... so the story is my wheels are the lovechild of Ron Burgundy and Kesha

My buddy Darin (djax Photography) snapped some new pictures of my car for me the other day, and I think they came out awesome

Kenzx3 wrote:^Potentially because I switch my ebay name around alot so people from the forums don't know I'm bidding on their stuff when I do the "Make an Offer" and lowball LOL!

glowin3232 wrote:Hey Josh I found your car on Ebay...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-Focus-SVT-ZX3-Hella-Dynabeam-Headlight-Kit-99-05-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem45f4c0ebfdQQitemZ300459027453QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccessories

SVT3658 wrote:no I give up being low. I'm gonna just order a FRPP stock SVT kit tomorrow.

Kenzx3 wrote:
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