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How-To: Paint your Wheels to look badazz
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 9:50 pm
by Gro Harlem
http://www.projectmazda.com/howto/paintwheels/index.htm
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After:
Working on getting pictures of them on the car. Only had time & resources to do two today (drivers side). I'll snap a pic of them on the car tommorrow hopefully & add them.
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 10:23 pm
by Tunes67
Much better & nice work Gro. Thats the first Flower Power GS Rim that I have seen that looks good.
Tunes67
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 10:32 pm
by DavidOS
not a fan of painting rims myself:)
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 10:39 pm
by mitmaks
I wonder how my honey comb wheels would look like, I dont like stock aluminum look and want something dark/gunmetal/flat black
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 11:47 pm
by Gro Harlem
better pics tommorrow
Posted: March 30th, 2005, 11:55 pm
by MarkMoore
Gro Harlem wrote:
better pics tommorrow
lol, why are your tires soooooo, dusty? because of the sanding u've been doin' lately?
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 1:55 am
by Gro Harlem
clearcoat overspray from when i painted the car lol....look at the pics here:
http://www.projectmazda.com/host/noblegreen/ and look at the night time pics...the rims look glistening they have so much overspray.
I gotta get some more armor all and clean em up i guess.
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 12:02 pm
by Gro Harlem
out door pic
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 2:38 pm
by wickedmx3
That looks so nice. You can tell once all the painting on the car is done and everything is cleaned up, that it is going to look so sweet.
I would do that for my stock rims just so they look good when I take my car on the track, I certainly don't want to run the quarter on 18's.
Great job man!
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 3:18 pm
by Gro Harlem
thx....yeah its annoying driving around like a ricer. I get so many stares now LOL. O well, I'll probably won't be able to go back home & spray the stuff until teh weekend after this upcoming one
Posted: March 31st, 2005, 10:46 pm
by phillyMX3mayn
what color u painting it? and what suspension u got on it?
Posted: April 1st, 2005, 12:32 pm
by David Witherow
ok be for you paint another thing FINISH THE CAR.....or the puppy gets it.....lol.........jokes....looks good!
Posted: April 1st, 2005, 3:10 pm
by bmwm3guy
Posted: April 1st, 2005, 3:14 pm
by Neil
Man thats nice Gro, i wanna do something like that until i can afford rims but the previous owner did a poor @ss job of painting the stock rims and i just dont feel like cleaning them up.
Good work thou gro those look sweet
