How-To: Paint your Wheels to look badazz

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » March 30th, 2005, 9:50 pm

http://www.projectmazda.com/howto/paintwheels/index.htm

Before:

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.

Tunes67 · Post by **Tunes67** » March 30th, 2005, 10:23 pm

Much better & nice work Gro. Thats the first Flower Power GS Rim that I have seen that looks good.

Tunes67

DavidOS · Post by **DavidOS** » March 30th, 2005, 10:32 pm

not a fan of painting rims myself:)

mitmaks · Post by **mitmaks** » March 30th, 2005, 10:39 pm

I wonder how my honey comb wheels would look like, I dont like stock aluminum look and want something dark/gunmetal/flat black

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » March 30th, 2005, 11:47 pm

better pics tommorrow

MarkMoore · Post by **MarkMoore** » March 30th, 2005, 11:55 pm

Gro Harlem wrote:

better pics tommorrow

lol, why are your tires soooooo, dusty? because of the sanding u've been doin' lately?

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » March 31st, 2005, 1:55 am

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.

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » March 31st, 2005, 12:02 pm

out door pic

wickedmx3 · Post by **wickedmx3** » March 31st, 2005, 2:38 pm

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!

Gro Harlem · Post by **Gro Harlem** » March 31st, 2005, 3:18 pm

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

phillyMX3mayn · Post by **phillyMX3mayn** » March 31st, 2005, 10:46 pm

what color u painting it? and what suspension u got on it?

David Witherow · Post by **David Witherow** » April 1st, 2005, 12:32 pm

ok be for you paint another thing FINISH THE CAR.....or the puppy gets it.....lol.........jokes....looks good!

bmwm3guy · Post by **bmwm3guy** » April 1st, 2005, 3:10 pm

hehe I did the same thing with my Rims too.. looked good for a while but eventually the rocks eat through the paint. Im gonna take another shot at it soon cuz I have an extra set lying around. NICE WORK THO

Neil · Post by **Neil** » April 1st, 2005, 3:14 pm

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