painting wheels.......
#21
as far as curing the wheels what is suggested? the paint says to clean the wheels, hit em with 320 grit sandpaper, spray 2 light coats 10 min apart fallowed by a heavier coat. . . . . wait 3 hours before re-installing your wheels. . . . . . should i have em drying under hd heaters? """"""""""""""" thanks in advance.............glad im not the only one on this forum thats NOT perfect. i mean the whole point of a forum is for people with somthing in common to come 2gether and descuss that common. not to make people search all over for answers to questions""""""""""""i figure if someone is tired of talking to me about what im talking about, they dont have to talk!
A fellow WV Fit Freaker -
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#22
Ohh boy. It isn't that this is the second or third time or maybe even the 5th time this has been posted but this is probably 10plus times this has been posted. I used the search feature and within 4 pages found 8 different topics on this subject. Like I said not trying to be a dick just saying it the way it is.
Here is a thread that I started in the wheel forum where this should be.
https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...ck-wheels.html
It has all of the pics I could find of stock wheels. The only ones I couldn't find were the white ones on a black fit and I believe there is a guy that did some brownish color.
I have painted my stock wheels and if you have any specific questions feel free to pm me I have no problem answering questions.
Sorry for coming off the wrong way just trying to be straightforward.
Here is a thread that I started in the wheel forum where this should be.
https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/fit-...ck-wheels.html
It has all of the pics I could find of stock wheels. The only ones I couldn't find were the white ones on a black fit and I believe there is a guy that did some brownish color.
I have painted my stock wheels and if you have any specific questions feel free to pm me I have no problem answering questions.
Sorry for coming off the wrong way just trying to be straightforward.
#26
i did this with some older gram lights,, I softened the old paint with some acetone, it worked well i put over 30k miles with only minor chips. I did the backside first then flipped them and several light coats and one heavy coat. I used the gun metal and a prepped them with a scotchbrite pad.
#28
hey everybody! i was thinking about painting my stock wheels either a gunmetal color, or black. i was at Auto Zone yesterday and found that they make paint specifically for wheels now. it comes in an airisol can.... have any of you used this yet, or know anyone who has? any advice is much apriciated!vtec rocks!
We've been doing for more than 20 years for our race cars. Any good hard coat like spray epoxy paint works well PROVIDED you clean the wheels well and truly both chemically and surface. When you paint do it so it doesn't run on you. And you need paint only the front side.
Some of our people go nuts with crazy combinations of collors on the same wheel. Many get striped the same way and especially those reflective stripes around the wheel near the edge do look kind of catchy at night.
#31
i've been rockin' white for a while now:
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jk it's photoshopped - a bad one too LoL
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jk it's photoshopped - a bad one too LoL
#38
Nice, looks really good in flat black. I also like how you took the fogs out. I ran without mine when my girl exploded a fog housing on the freeway. I really wanna do gunmetal powdercoat to match my accord coupe and bike. A nice common theme.
#39
that sounds cool. i may go ahead down the line and have the wheels powder coated, but for now the paint is holding up well and looking pretty good. as far as the fog lights go, i was just trying somthing different..... at least for around my area..... i may be putting them back on soon. they deff. make a difference at night!
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