Painting thy wheels...

Well the wheels are painted! I think they turned out pretty damm good. They turned out lot brinter! Which is what I was going for... here's some pics.




T-Bone helping with the prep.... No going back now!




Sanding close up...




After two coats Color...




Close up.... Man I love my new Camera.





After 1 coat of clear. I applied 3 coats total...






Before and after.... A LOT Brighter!





Real world compairison...





Ta da!

if you would just do something about the blue color of the car!! just kidding!!

that should easily bump you in to the 11's, they look good!

i think i may do mine all black soon.

It was a lot of work... Prep prep and more prep. But that is the key to good results.

looks good paul!!!

what wheels do you have doc?

fr 500's, they are already mostly black but anything that touches them puts a scratch on the paint. plus i have some curb rash that i would like to get rid of. they have silver around the edge now, they probably wouldn't look to bad all black. did you order wheel paint paul?

Looks like it turned out well. And since you only drive 10 miles a year it should last a long time.

that is funny right there

Oh man. Keep the silver on the lip! It's looks great as is.

I started by using Dulipcolor paint but it wasn't bright enough. So I switched to Krylon. Then I used the Duplicolor Wheel Clear. I also used the Duplicolor Adhesion Promoter.

DBLDARE wrote:Looks like it turned out well. And since you only drive 10 miles a year it should last a long time.

It's 11 miles... you ass...

Oh sorry.

DBLDARE wrote:Looks like it turned out well. And since you only drive 10 miles a year it should last a long time.

Ouch!!!!


The wheels look good Paul!!! And I see the real master mechanic was doing the dirty work!!! Hope he got paid well for all that work!!

LOOKS GREAT ,YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST DONE ONE SIDE SO YOU COULD GET THE BEFORE AND AFTER EFFECT :laugh:

Thanks!

I did... The pics resized on me. :( The fulls pics are in my gallery.

NEEDFORSPEED wrote:LOOKS GREAT ,YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST DONE ONE SIDE SO YOU COULD GET THE BEFORE AND AFTER EFFECT :laugh:

Yes... He's getting a new ipod... It's rough to be the only child...

IPOD. He should have held out for somthing better. T-Bone. You need to ask for a New Car.

He's already had two and he's not even 16.

cars or ipods?

Looks good Pauly!!

Looks great and the difference is amazing.......what camera did you get ?

osudoc21 wrote:cars or ipods?

Cars er... Trucks. 2 gen 1 lightnings. One red stock, and one black. Not even close close to being stock.

Then I would demand the money for the sale of those two right now before you blow it on hookers and cheap booze.


Too late... ;)


Actually the profits went into his car fund.

TTOWNBOBBYD wrote:Looks great and the difference is amazing.......what camera did you get ?

I got a Canon G9. 12.1 Mega pixels. I wanted a dSLR but didn't really want the size. The G9 is about as close as you can get. I've been researching for about the last 2 months and read tons of professional reviews and all rated the G9 tops. Most said they carry it as a backup to there dSLRs. It has a fully manual and Raw Jpeg capability which I wanted. Only Cmaera in it's class that had it. It also has tons of presets. One of them is "underwater" which eliminates the extream blue hues that you get underwater. I'll use the BEEEP out of that one.

Next up... a HD Video Cam. ;)

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_g9-review/

How did you respond to my post, in my post?

Man those look nice! I was wanting to get rid of my chrome lip as well. I want to either sell them and get all black or just finish up the wheel all black. How long did it take you to do those?