Anyone have pictures of their stock wheels painted a dark gun metal or painted black??
One of my friends said paint them black with a red ring.. the racer look.. but there is a thin line between racer and ricer .. I don't want to be the latter.
THANKS
ALLEN

 

 

that looks awesome. Want2Race, is that your car? How do you paint the wheels in gun metal? is there a certain paint? certaim method?

1FAST7

 

MAN.. those look awesome! My car is black.. I might go with a little lighter color or just straight black.. but I really like the ways yours looks.
Thanks.. anyone else??

 

Ok, these are 99 Japanese wheels gunmetal color on my black car, just so you can use it for reference. Sorry, my camera was a gift and doesn't take the best pictures. And the car had just been put on these wheels after sitting on jackstands for months, and it has no motor (or seats) and the body panels are laying on there so don't trip about the wheel gaps or any of that **** -- it'll settle and it's missing a lot of weight. Paint is fucked up, too ... thank you AutoWerks in Raleigh, NC for destroying my car. Mmm ... rusty rotors (no brakes either).

 

I powdercoated them myself.. Total cost.. $15

 

Want2race, is it chipping off or is it fine? Im thinking about doing this too. Did you take any specials steps or did u just powdercoat it? what color?

 

I took the tires off...
Sand blasted the **** out of them. WIth many different grades of sand.. Got them to a polished like look.. Then went up 2 #'s to get a tooth

Then I used a de greaser. Let it dry... Then 2 coats of Gun metal and then 4 coats of clear... Its not chipping off now.. And i doubtit ever will!!

 

DK: interesting picture. How'd you get those Japan RX-7 16inch wheels and what did they cost?

Anyway, to add to the thread, here's a pic of the stock Japan RX-7 17inch wheels done in black by the factory(RX-7 Type RS-R for those curious about it)

 

Dang. those look good... OK.. how did you powdercoat them yourself.. did you paint them or truly powdercoat them???
THEY LOOK GOOD..
I like the dark look those newer style ones look tight too.
Thanks
Allen

 

I have a friend who helped me out through ALTA ... $490 with pretty awesome Yokohoma GP M5 tires (V-rated ... lots of patch). It's not as good as the set of new Pirelli PZero Asimmetricos I had on my wheels when they were stolen, but whaddayagonnado?

 

Thanks for the pic DK....anyone have black/dark rim pics on montego blue?

I think the dark color rims look great on the bright color cars..yellow/red but I'm worried on the montego blue it may be too much dark for the color..

hmmm

 

I have a friend with black painted stock 3rd Gen wheels and I mounted them on my Montego Blue to see how it looked and didnt really like it. It might just be me though because I'm not really into the black wheels thing.

Guess thats not too much help but thought I'd throw it out there

Later,

 

usually you want to put dark wheels, on lighter color cars,
like red, or ESPECIALLY orange(ever seen a mclaren F1 LM ??)

but gunmetal is not black, black doesnt look good on that
many colors.
usually black(batmobile look, hehe), or yellow, are good.

But gunmetal looks great on almost anything,
even darker colors. But especially on the lighter colors.

White wheels might be pretty good on an FD also.
But I dont know about painting the stock wheels white.