So I recently painted my stock rims with this paint that caught my eye one day at Home Depot. I have learned to love it. Its not quite gloss, and its not quite flat. Its called a metallic. It actually has some metal flake in it, so it looks deeper than other spray paints I have seen. This has been the cheapest mod I have done for my car, and the reasults have been some of the best. See for yourself....

The paint...

The process...

The outcome...




Old engine bay...



New engine bay...



I highly suggest this paint. It hides brake dust very well and its super durable. Hope you like it.

Oh and BTW, Im planning on painting my UIM and TB once I have a need to take them off. I just havent gotten around to it yet...

 

I'm curious to see how it stands the test of time.

 

really like how the rims came out. and ifyou ever want to go back to the old color, just strip the paint. im geting ideas now for black spokes, polished lip....

 

Looks really good i did my wheels like that about a year ago. then i got some liquid clear from the dupont store with the hardner and mixed it and my wheels have a crazy nice shine to them.

 

What suspension are you running? Car looks really nice!

 

They hold up great. The pics of my FD with the 99 spec are my old rims I painted about a year ago. They look just as good as the day I sprayed them. I got new stock rims and was painting them today, so I decided to finally post about this paint...

They key is to clean the rims very very good with laquer thinner before you try to paint. This paint tends to fish eye real bad if its not spic and span..

 

Now you can work on matching that front bumper!

Nice job...

 

The pic of the painted rims is some H&R springs with R1 struts...You wanna buy the springs?? I just got some coilovers...

 

Haha, I was waiting for somebody to notice. I got hit by a cop a while back, and just had my friend paint the passenger fender and bumper the stock VR. But as you can see the rest of the car has faded over age and sunlight. The car is going to be mainly a track car so I have been more worried about doing performance upgrades before I get them color matched professionally.

 

looks good except for the monstrosity where your battery used to be....what is that?

 

Solonoid relocation. Best mod I have done yet.

 

The red 7 and those painted rims looks pretty nice together. Good job man

I like that front bumper cover too... is that the official 99 spec?

 

Yep, OEM 99spec.

 

nice color

 

You spray painted your wheels and have a different color front bumper....guy buy an FC for all that mess

 

looks good.. looks closer to stock..sleeper finish

 

Does anyone have any pics of a montego blue 7 with dark stock rims?

 

holly ****! clean those air filters! :P awesome car.

 

The rims look really nice, just as good as my powdercoated ones... makes me wish I saved the $$$$$$$.

Wouldn't painting the fin portion of your SMIC add a layer, decreasing heat transfer? I was always iffy about this because I painted my computers radiator (watercooled) and noticed the temp was never as low as before the paint.

 

lookin good! you gave me an idea

 

whats that hole in your IC ducting for?

 

looks good

 

i used gunmetal wheel paint on my stock rims, results looks the same

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/wheel.html

that rust paint is probably a better price though. good find

 

"The rims look really nice, just as good as my powdercoated ones... makes me wish I saved the $$$$$$$.

Wouldn't painting the fin portion of your SMIC add a layer, decreasing heat transfer? I was always iffy about this because I painted my computers radiator (watercooled) and noticed the temp was never as low as before the paint."

I masked off the finned portion.

"whats that hole in your IC ducting for?"

Its for the PFS intake if you have one. I just have it capped off.

 

Where did you get the caps for your intakes? I've got the same ones and I've been looking for something like that for months!