musicheadt

Great job on those wheels.....I'm considering this mod now, since I also have a lot of tread-life left on my tires. Sometimes cheap mobs make a big difference.

Kara

Looks really good!

landon.moss

looks like you did pretty good....r u going to do the 5 indentations on the wheels? you could pry just dab it in if you do

king07

At this point in time I dont think ill do the tabs. My brother asked the same question when i was painting them and at the time I couldnt think of a good way to do it and have it still look good. When I go back and redo them in a month or two I might then. Plus when I did them I started on them as soon as I got off work and had to have them dry enough to go back to work that night. So I didnt have much time to tinker with different ideas.

SuperNac

Everything looks really good. I'm contemplating removing the side stripes from mine but my wife really likes them. Painting those rims really brought them out.

07 Stang

Never really cared for those styled rims, but I must say painting the inside really helped bring them out. Good Job! [sm=smiley20.gif]

king07

My side strippes were silver and seemed to be starting to crack if you looked close. Plus every sixer around here has side stripes and there are a lot of them. I wanted a cleaner different look. But I know what you mean about the wife likeing them. My wife liked them too. So I waitd till she was at work and pulled them. Its better to ask for forgiveness than permission. LOL. After I did it though she thought it still looked ok. So I wasnt in trouble. Ha ha.

landon.moss

wow ....i just re-read that....13 HOURS holy buckets dude......i saw where you said it took you awhile...guess that's a lot longer than my 3 hrs huh?

kngdaka

looks good. Nice job on the painted wheels.


I'm actually waiting for my tires to go to pick up take-offs myself

king07

Ya 13 hrs makes for a long day when you get off work at 8:00 a.m. and have to be back at 12:00 am. I was at my brothers by 8:30 and had the car on jack stands by 9:30. I spent about an hour washing/cleaning the wheels. Then from about 9:30 to 2:30 sanding/roughing up the paint. I wanted to make sure I had a good surface for the paint to stick to. I probably went a little overboard but oh well. Geting the tight corners took a while with the scotchbrite pad though. From about 2:30 to 3:30 I washed aind dryed the rims again and wiped them down with alcahol. After that I was ready to begin masking off the rims. I wraped all 4 wheels in plastic, trimed out the plastic around the rim and began tapeing off the rims. I used an exacto knife to trim the masking tape with. Finally I began painting around 6:00 p.m. and spent 2 to 2 & 1/2 hours doing that.At 10:00 P.M. I put the rims back on the car. By the way if you jack up your car with the doors locked it sounds the panic alarm. The people next door didnt care for that LOL. At last at 11:30 P.M. I went back to work. Which made for an even longer night but it was worth it. If I do this again Ill wait till Im off. Ha,Ha. I had thought my brother was going to help but he had something come up.