Do you know what paint you used for that? Doesn't look completely black like the others, I like it.

 

just got my time attack's, although not stock here is my FD with black wheels!

 

FD4U2NV. love the way your car looks with the black wheels. are you still selling it?

 

-jayk
did you realize our two pictures are almost the SAME EXACT angle... pretty weird.

-papsmagu
Wow... those are gorgeous.... how long did you have to wait for those? if I wasn't selling my car I was about to put those on order... same exact dimensions and everything (saw your other thread).


-ultmtrx8
yes, its for sale. autotrader and the for sale section its in.

sorry for sliding off topic. I really like the black on red look too!

 

Question since i do not know much about the powder coating process but is it possible to due black like most of you have done and then leave the lip stock and just polish the hell out of it? Or is masking not possible due to the powder coating process

 

Holy bad paint match Batman!

 

I didnt powder coat mine. I was scared about the baking process they do to the rim and sacrifiing its integrity( I planned on autocrossing so I didnt want to mess with that). But I hear mixed things about that, some say its fine.... I never got a definitive answer. I researched how powder coating actually works because I didnt want to go on just hearsay and that just scared me more.... so thats why I went with this method. You can always touch it up later... or even redo it for minimal costs. It's just time and patience.

If you decided to paint yours, sure you could..... but like I said before - its a lot of prep work to begin with... so trying to leave the lip would be even more on top of that... Painters tape will become your friend. Or, try it my way... I figured out a trick while doing it.... I used index cards and lined them between the wheel and tire so I wouldn't get spray on the rubber. Then after that maybe you could make a cirlce cutout from cardboard for your lip? Cause I imagine trying to tape a circle would be really hard...... lol.

 

yes you can powder coat your wheels and have a polished lip, polyester tape is what is used to mask powder coated parts, curing is 390°F for about 15min, i don't think wheels could get messed up from that.

 

I love black rims

but it's really personal taste. if rims are defined as highschool kids group:

- black rims started as the street racer look, much like punk rock/gothic kids

- silver rims are like the preppy jocks

- fat chrome rims are like the lowrider gangsters


what type are you ?? o_O

 

gunmetal



1/2 1/2?

 

Wow, that looks great! I love that stock/clean look. What suspsension are you running and how do you like it if you don't mind me asking?

 

thanks.........as far as the wait, its a pretty long story but i ordered the wheels, paid addtinional to have them air freighted from Japan. Company could not deliver within the agreed upon time. cancelled the order. found the wheels on the forum, brand new still in box and they were local!!!!! i could not belive my luck.

 

I love this paint. No primer, no clear, and it held up perfectly over a year and a half. That was when that car was on daily duty also. Just gotta make sure the rims are absolutely free of all contaminates as this paint fish eyes pretty bad.

 

my original coat of gunmetel is still holding up since 2002

 

every since i painted my wheels black the ricers at the car meets give me this

"yo playa what kindsa wheels are dem, **** looks Mad Tyte"

duhh dude they are HKS Greddy type 483's

 

rs-r race springs on gab super r's, i love them

the wheels were painted with the dupicolor wheel paint and 2-3 coats of clear. maybe i should add a red lip in a few months

 

+1 black looks good but gunmeatal looks the best IMO



not a great pic but you get the point

 

I love black wheels but ever since i got em it seems like a lot more people got em also.


But I cant go all black, I needed at least a lip

 

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These are just my track tires. Sanded them down a little bit and used like three cans/coats of gloss black engine enamel.

 

That's your FD? Looks pretty damn nice

 

Yeah, and thanks. Surprises me you like it cuz most people on here didn't when I first got it.

 

Ya thats nice man!

I painted a set of stockers black and they just didn't look good to me, so I opted for the powdercoating.

heres mine...

 

not feelin stock painted rims but from the pics in the thread gunmetal>black

 

I got on the band wagon. Actually, I thought of the idea myself (honest) so I had them powder coated. Then i got back on the forums after a while and noticed alot of people doing it....lol, I thought i was original. Oh well, I like it better! Except now i need to paint the center caps.

 

I know you didn't ask, but please reinstall your stock popups, in my opinion the car would look soooo much better