Sub-$100 mods/V6 Wheel Ideas

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My 99 V6 is my first car, and I've had it for about five years now. I've always wanted to modify it, but being a college student means I don't really have much cash to spare on my vehicle other than maintenance. All I've done is attached a fire extinguisher under the glove box and placed a cap where the cigarette lighter used to be. I just want to be able to tinker/mess with my car really.

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I'm torn as to whether I should bother with performance modifications at the time being, since I'd need to invest significantly to get any real benefits out of my V6 Auto. I can't seem to find any performance parts at a reasonable price (other than used clearance items at the local mustang shop).

I've always wanted to get a set of Anthracite Bullit wheels from American Muscle, but after adding in the cost of tires, the price is too steep for me to afford ($900 or so). I thought of going to a Pick-N-Pull and seeing if I could find a set for $200 or so, but every Pick-N-Pull I go to is stripped clean of wheels.

Since I couldn't afford a set of Bullit wheels, I figured I'd paint my existing wheels. They're the sort of mushed V6 wheels as you can see above. I thought of touching them up with metallic silver (the years have worn out the original metallic silver finish), then going over them with a metallic black or dark metallic grey, using painters tape along the center of each spoke. That way I'd have a metallic silver in the middle of each spoke, then perhaps using a pre-cut circle on the center of the wheel caps to keep the pony and the area around it silver, then filling the pony in with the matching black/grey.

Any thoughts/ideas/advice?

 

[jrod2423]

yeah sounds alot like my original wishes, bullit rims and what to do with the performance.

Well finally came to the relazation that these rims are harder than hell to find, especially at pick and pull cuz that stuff is sold about as fast as it hits there lots, and when i did find sets they were expensive, so i put plan b into action just like what your thinking about and i painted my rims to match the car, still need to sand and clear coat them but they will do for now. For the performance not much to do for the v6 that i have seen if your looking to spend little money, i would just replace whatever fails and worry more on look than speed because eventually you'll find a point in which its just not worth the time and money with the little gains on small stuff.

also i attached a pic of my rim to give ya an idea on how i painted mine.