Well, when I looked at the rims that came with my Initial D FC3S, they were, of course, typical Fujimi quality. They were not the style I was looking for either. I wanted a set of deep dish rims on this FC. Since the Veilside Andrew Dish's are going on my other FC, I couldn't use them. So I pondered the situation a bit and found a logical solution. I will take the dish off another set of rims and place it on top of the ugly, undetailed, Fujimi quality crap wheels.
The first thing I did was sand down the small little lip on the edge of the original wheels. You will notice it in this pic:
To sand, I layed a fine piece of sandpaper on a flat surface, put the wheel on it so the lip was facing down, and started moving therim in a circular motion. You don't want to go to far, so stop just when the tiny outer edge lip disappears. Here is an after pic:
Here is the lip I am going to use. I got it from a set of "lowrider" style rims off the Aoshima Accord Wagon Lowrider. You need to sand this just a bit to make it lighn up with the rim. Here is a before (a tad blurry):
Here is the after (after sanding) underneath shot of the lip:
Next you can paint each part individually if you'd like, then put them together. The only thing you need to do (and i still need to) is cut off the remaining part of the original rim that is sticking out off the tire. Here are some final shots:
Not Painted:
Painted:
