Painted my rims last night! Pictures inside.

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

Howzit!! Once again my bordom got the best of me.
So how do I cure this problem that I seem to have very often?
I go do something to the car of course!!

 

[Mad-Mic]

man they look really good!

awesome!

 

[Ken]

Nice! :cool

_ken

 

[CKA_Racing]

Hubba Hubba!

 

[CFour]

They look great!

 

[hawaii-5-lo]

hey man,
they look really good,got new shocks today too,killer.

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

Hey guy's thanks for the thumb's up!!
Hopefully I'll get "bored" more often!:L

 

[69MyWay]

Cool!

So, how long did it take, and what procedure did you use to do it?

 

[c4ever]

Real nice job

Carlo

 

[84brzvette]

dont mean to be the rotten egg here, but i kinda liked it better the other way .... but thats just my opinion! It doesnt look bad though. Like I said before, its whats under the hood that really counts!!

 

[Timbalero]

Painted rims

They look pretty sharp, How did you do it? I have a set of stock 84 rims that are in good condition but I want to do something different to them. Let me know Aloha

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

dont mean to be the rotten egg here, but i kinda liked it better the other way .... but thats just my opinion! It doesnt look bad though. Like I said before, its whats under the hood that really counts!!

I kinda do, and kinda like them this way. if I didnt, theres really nothing that can be done at the moment, but It doesnt really matter because of the fact that I'm going to be given the rims off of "Hawaii 5-Lo's" car, (a member of this forum) the 2000 C-5 skinny spoked ones in a few months when he buys his new rims...what ever style they might be.

 

[cesully]

I don't mean to be like Simon, but they're absolutely dreadfull-
don't paint the 5 spokes black-

taste is relative however-- Enjoy !

Sully

 

[Vettelt193]

I think they look great (although I would have preferred the center caps painted black too)

the question of the day is still How did you do it? was it easy, what kind of paint etc.? the paint looks awesome, and if it isn't that hard to do, it would be a worthwhile post for everyone here thanks!

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

the question of the day is still How did you do it? was it easy, what kind of paint etc.? the paint looks awesome, and if it isn't that hard to do, it would be a worthwhile post for everyone here thanks!

Oh yeah, forgot about that!!!
All that I did was scuff up the rims a little, used mineral spirits (Paint thinner) to clean off all the dirt, grim, and anything else that might exist on the rim's, taped off to where I wanted the silver part of the original color to remain, a painted them.

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

Oh yeah...kined of paint:
I used "rustolium" metel paint since the rims dont get very hot when driven, they do get hot, but not that hot to burn of or distroy the paint, if your not sure, or worried, us the heat paint in stead if or when you decide to paint your rim's.
I then went with a few coat's of clear, which was a heat brand paint.

 

[BlackNBlue95]

I like.. I am also wondering how you did it.. I thinkthe centercaps match well to the black especsially since the outer ring of the wheel is still aliuminum color..
-Rick

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

Next time boredom hits........paint the calipers to match the cars color.....


my .02

Len

Actually, I've been wanting to, just having a hard time finding some paint that matches the color of the car, and very expensive to have some made.

 

[Da Hawaiian Punch]

I like.. I am also wondering how you did it.. I thinkthe centercaps match well to the black especsially since the outer ring of the wheel is still aliuminum color..
-Rick

You posted right before I had just finished answering that very question.
Look at my response just above your comment for the answer to your question.
Aloha my friend.

 

[Bonnell]

You need to come to Arkansas and get bored. My '88 could use an inventive guy!