I know another member did this a short while ago, but I had the idea, before he posted it, so I hope no one thinks I'm a copy cat hehe. Great minds think alike. Here they are, the stock 4-spokes. I've only done the two rear wheels so far. I could make a step by step tutorial...who wants one? I think they look bad ***, and my car is white.

 

Looks good to me!

 

wow im gonna do that instead of buying rims.

 

I think I'm gonna make a tutorial, I still have the 2 front to do, so I'll take pics of the process while I'm doing them. I'll give you a quick run down thou. I stripped off the stock clear, with paint stripper, than scuffed the wheels with 120 grit paper. I polished the lip, with 400-1000-2000grit paper, than used my dremel with compound to polish them. I masked off the lip, than used a zinc chromate primer on the wheels. Than finished them off with high heat (with ceramic) flat black. I also polished the "Mazda" casted into them

 

I likes

 

i like them as well, great work!

 

That's a great idea. I hope you don't mind if I copy you.

Joe

 

looks good. but you know would look even beter? new tires!! =D

 

I know I need new tires, there are fried, they were fried when I bough the car. And you can "copy" me, Im not the first to do this as I mentioned. Im gonna make a tutorial, so I expect others to do it. Because it looks awsome, and costs about $30 and some elbow grease.

 

Looks great!! I just painted my wheels gloss black, their not stock but I love black wheels!!

 

YES, you copied me They don't look bad. One thing you did not do that I highly recommend is that you thoroughly wash and scrub them with easy off oven cleaner and a wire brush to get any corrosion or debris/grease off. And, about your write up..I've been working on one for this since I posted my original thread. If anyone is looking for pics of this setup on car, check out my most recent thread. I am the 'originator' of the style

 

Here it is..

 

theres a 1gen by my house with there rims painted like that

 

Well I removed the clear coat with paint stripper, so im pretty sure there was no grease under the clear coat haha. But I did wipe the wheels with menthol hydrate, to assure there was no debris/grease. I removed the clear, and sanded them, so there was no corrosion or dirt.

 

i like the way it looks.

 

Looks nice. What does JDM have to do with this?

 

He's making a joke john... And RayJNeal are you serious? People have been painting wheels like that for decades....

 

Yea, the JDM part was a joke...I was pretending to be a ricer.

Here they are on the car!