Legion5

Ok I've been slightly inspired to create the "good angel" version of the mustang bullit. I'm weighing some of the ideas here with my car and what I really like about the bullitt is it's painted 18" wheels. They are way too dark for my car though but I really do like the contrasting edge.

I have the clear coated 18" polished bullits on 25mm wheel spacers and the setup looks sick, but I still miss having a contrasting lip and envy it.

Like I said I've been weighing posibilities.. and I can either paint the wheels to a silver color that is darker than stock, which would look cool, and be a good color, or I could some how coat the edge of the wheel in stainless steel.

Does anyone have any ideas for accomplishing either of these?

YellowFlame

Painting a wheel is dead easy.

Somehow coating the rim lip in stainless steel is iffy.
I've seen stainless steel paints (epoxies) but they don't really look like stainless, they look like silver metallic paint.
Having it actually stainless coated probably won't work, the aluminum would melt in the process. I've only seen that done on steel.

You already have a polished rim, why bother with stainless?
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Legion5

The two tone effect breaks up the impression of the car better that's why I want it, and I love the look of stainless steel at night. It has more contrast than polished metal so it's my top choice (stainless steel has so much contrast because the surface works similar to a hologram due to the process of making it stainless). Actually there exists a set of mustang bullitts with a two tone light silver painted surface. The only picture of them that I've seen which I foundthe a day ago is poorly color corrected, that's why I uploaded a corrected version with original that has it's exposure at what I think is a more natural color. See below.

I started with a "plan" for my mustang and now as I'm putting everything together after the preformance mods so that it looks as good as it drives. Well. i'm having a hard time getting those peices to fit together visually.


http://www.seanhylandmotorsport.com/...1007-S1885.jpg

My new question is then, does this style of rim properly fit my car (see the picture below to understand my plan, as I originally had american muscle 18" painted wheels)? And also how can I FURTHER polish the rim of the above wheel which I'm thinking of swapping for?

Incase you need to visualize it, the rear end has a GT/CS bumper.


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