Hi 04LE let me explain. The first two image at the beginning of my post are of my bike with the matching color sprayed on the wheels. To me it came awesome, and the bike looks totally different. We got the color code from Suzuki agent and the color matches perfectly. I used photoshop to see how it looks with gold wheels and carbon Yoshimura and i decided to go for that look as it changes the bike completely. After selling my Yoshis and losing my Job the wheels got painted. Then i had a problem, because it seems that when the sprayer painted the wheels being a pearl paint there are multiple coats involved (Primer, base cote, top coat and clear) to get that factory finish of the OEM color of my Busa.
Paint and color are great but it is really easy to chip the paint maybe because of the thickness. Then i was told about powder coat, which is much stronger and a lot less prone to chip, but when i spoke to the powdercoater he could not match the color of my bike, so he suggested to either go for black again (which i was not happy to do so) or use another gold that had nothing to do with the color of my bike. I luckily have another set of wheels that i decided to strip completely from oem paint then we can do the process again to check if it comes out better.
Can i kindly ask if your wheels are OEM color or you painted them? Really nice BTW. If so, did you powder or paint? People on this forum swear by powder coating, but for us here in Malta color is limited and i want it to match exactly the color of my bike. So basically you prefer Gold, me too, then i will try to re paint my second set of wheels to match my bike. I really wished to do powder coating, because of durability, but paint will match better and worse case i will repaint them if chipped or scratched. Thanks for your help my friend.
Paint and color are great but it is really easy to chip the paint maybe because of the thickness. Then i was told about powder coat, which is much stronger and a lot less prone to chip, but when i spoke to the powdercoater he could not match the color of my bike, so he suggested to either go for black again (which i was not happy to do so) or use another gold that had nothing to do with the color of my bike. I luckily have another set of wheels that i decided to strip completely from oem paint then we can do the process again to check if it comes out better.
Can i kindly ask if your wheels are OEM color or you painted them? Really nice BTW. If so, did you powder or paint? People on this forum swear by powder coating, but for us here in Malta color is limited and i want it to match exactly the color of my bike. So basically you prefer Gold, me too, then i will try to re paint my second set of wheels to match my bike. I really wished to do powder coating, because of durability, but paint will match better and worse case i will repaint them if chipped or scratched. Thanks for your help my friend.
