Well half a year ago my dad got me some rims for my car. And the condition they were in was pretty bad (but can't complain when there free) Other than that ive let them sit in my storage house till now. So today I took the rims out and im planning on cleaning them up and repaint them. Its going to be my first time doing somthing like this but I hope it'll turn out ok. Here are pics



You can see the damage on them

My weapons

sitting to dry after washing them and prepping for sanding

the sanding process by hand.. spent 2 hours on 1 wheel, till I found out my friend had a dremel and then smooth sailing from there.

One finish with dremel

In the end though im not expecting this to turn out great just something to put on my car till I get something better. But progress is still going on i'll have more pics when done

 

gl with the project and i recommend trying to find some acid. the acid that paint shop will use and acid wash them real good if you acid wash them you don't need to sand them. i painted my rims without sanding them just acid washing. they came out great. cept for one we didn't acid wash it so it had a lot of fish eying due to oils still on the rim.

 

gl on the project those are nice rims btw cant wait to see the finished product

 

Yeah, make sure you prep them properly. Looking good though, what colour are you painting them?

 

Thanks for the advice but it sounds kinda pricey...
Thanks for the comments, 2 rims done 2 more to go. I'm painting them silver

 

You should dismount the tires first.

 

ahh quality good luck mate, ill be keeping an eye on how it goes. im going to redo my enkeis as the laquer has started comming off.
im not too sure wether to paint them myself or get th centres powder coated.

what kind of paint are you using?

 

good luck hope they come out nice.

 

don't be to heavy in spots with the paint otherwise they will be a nightmare to balance. fyi balance them after painting. the acid i was talking about isn't that expensive at all. i can't remember how much but i know its not a lot

 

I like the design of the wheel. Is it a 30-40 offset? Keeping them polished, or painting them a different color? What color is the car? Take your time.

You don't need to dismount the tires to paint. Here's what I do...

Take some thin cardboard. A cereal box works great. Cut the large sides (front and back) off in as straight of a line as possible. Cut those in half so you have four 4x12-ish strips. Wrap those strips around the bead of the wheel. Between the tire and lip of the wheel. Tape the strips together to form sort of a ring around the wheel. Now tape some newspaper or plastic around the rest of the tire.

You may need more than 1 cereal box, but this method works better than using up 10 rolls of masking tape. Plus it's reusable for multiple wheels.

 

the product you're thinking of is Paint Stripper.

 

Don't hang out in the 2nd gen section much, but I thought you might get some good info from a thread I put up in 1st gen sections when I refurbed my SA waffle wheels.

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...ghlight=waffle

 

Dupli-color silver
its 42 offset if I remember. Just sanding and repainting same color. My car is white.
And thats a nice write up t g farrell

 

Thanks a lot. I learned some good lessons while doing it and tried to pass them along. I hope it helps.

I think I used the same Duplicolor Silver wheel paint. It exaclty matched the color of the new waffle wheel I had for comparison. Its my spare.

 

Well today is prep day! for paint

Cheap asian labor works for cigs!





I only got 2 wheels done today after that got lazy and as you can see I half assed the covering and painting. The silver paint is ok. Now im thinking of painting it a gunmetal now... Well follow up with the project should be next week

 

why did you even bother to tape around the rim like that??? Tape is dirt cheap, one roll of the green stuff is more than enough to cover the entire side wall of four tires....unless those are junk tires..

I just did some wheels in Dupli-Color Wheel Paint, but I chose the graphite or whatever. I did the cardboard thing first but found the tape to be much easier and quicker. Deflating the tire allows the tape to get way down between the rim and tire so you can spray the entire edge of the rim.



Just wondering why you didn't use more tape??

 

I got pretty lazy

 

heres a tip.

just stick notecards between the lip and tire all around the wheel.

done and done.

 

Here's another tip:
Dismount the freakin tires!

No masking required then.

 

What if they're your only means of transportation. As in, you don't have another car or set of tires? Just run cardboard around the lips and use a couple trash bags to seal the tire.

Plus dismounting and remounting tires adds $20 to the project. You can take a rag and acetone to the overspray and it comes right off.

 

Sneak peak

 

ive painted a set of 5zigen fn01rc on my old 240sx using the same duplicolor silver wheel paint and the same thing you did.. *prior owner used paint stripper on em wanting to strip the surface and polish em (which looks awesome on fn01s by the way) but they had tons of residue i just sanded em and sprayed em and they came out great, tho they didnt perfectly match the rear set of fn01s i had but it didnt bother me.

tho you might get some paint chips when you go through tire mountings etc.. and the paint can get stained/hard to clean if you dont always whip em down..

 

clear coat em


i spent about 3 hours on each of my old miata wheels using the same products.

this is how they came out

 

hey man do you have any pics of the whole car with those miata rims on them?