kitchen

I painted my GXL wheels black today. You like?

Bigretardhead

cool. that's much better than silver (IMHO). I'm using those for my winter tires, I think I'm going to do that.

Black13B

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hmm.. ive been considering this myself.. looks not too bad! (better than pitted old aluminum)..

n4ji

iTrader: (1)

Agreed, the GXL wheels look good painted like that. But I prefer the turbo wheels.

j200pruf

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Would be kewl if you had some better pics dude. But they look ok, did u use matte or gloss black?

kitchen

My camera sucks. It's one of the tiny $40 ones.

Gloss black paint. They are really glossy right now (too glossy for the dirty car).

When I wash it next, I'll get some good pics with a better camera, hopefully.

gotdatfiyah

thats the shittiest looking wheels ive ever seen

adamlewis

How did you keep the lip silver?

KiyoKix

Looks good man, bad pic quality but it still looks good. I like how you kept the lip there, I've always wanted to know what it'd look like with that. I don't really have any plans anymore on upsizing my wheels since the 15's are perfect anyway (gearing, weight, handling, etc.) so I've been thinking of doing this. What kinda paint did you use, and how did you prep the wheels before you painted them?

Jesusus

i've been seeing a lot of people with painted black rims. but dont know what kind of paint they use... is it just regular house paint? car paint? i was thinkin about just using spray paint would that be good enough?

Matt22

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I was going to paint the steelies off my Corolla last weekend, they actually have wheel paint. The crap I got is from Dupli-Coat and its called High Performance Wheel Coating. Oh and its track tested. I got a cool Graphite color. Eventually I will powdercoat either a set of the S4 rims or the S5 rims. Lates Matt22

kitchen

I used engine enamel (the wheel coating does not come in black). http://www.duplicolor.com/products/engine.html

I hope it holds up.

To prep the surface, I washed the wheels, sanded them with 150 grit, and washed again.

Masking was tedious.

Relisys190

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wow, that does look good, but if i were to do it (sorry for the critic) but i'd choose a lighter color, maybe dark silver/gunmetal color. with a nice polished lip. how long did each masking job take (meaning each rim) great job man. definatly a great 'change in style'

-Markus

"Home wheel improvment"

kitchen

About 30-40 minutes per wheel.

sectachrome

that looks sick. i thought you painted the whole wheel black at first but i like how you left the outer part silver.

Silverbullet

lookin good, i plan to do the same to mine. How do u guys think it will look on mine? http://members.cardomain.com/silverbullet1986

yea.. i realize its not an RX-7 heh

bejbis

look good, but honstley its worth it to spend 30$ on real base clear paint....

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Daniel

Black13B

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so whats the procedure on the base clear? you didnt just spray it on i assume..

kitchen

Nice... What are those wheels from? 944?

Drifter101

They look quite 944'ish in my opinion as well, whatever they are they look nice

Matt22

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ya what are those wheels off. lates

ZachSpazz

Those are 924/944/928 rims.

bejbis

there off of my '86 944. procedure i used was

1. strip off paint.
2. clean wheels soapy water
3. spray can 'bulldog adhesion promoter'
4. mix up the base coat in my spray gun. spray a few coats on.
5. mix up the hardener/clear in the spray gun, and put a few more coats.

then just let em dry, the cleaning and masking took about 4 hours, and the painting took about 1 hour. very simple, that was my first "REAL, non rattle can job"

Daniel

kitchen

k, here's the followup as promised.

Prepare for image assault.

gotdatfiyah

not bad, but i like the silver wheels better. but ur drivin it, not me