Repainting Steelies

Aight so my friends are all rusted, and its cheaper to just roll black than to buy new caps, and I got a sandblaster ... so what paint do you guys reccomend?

come on guys ... I wanna see at least one reply by the time I wake up tommorow :finger4:

(since its me getting the steelies painted) i hate hub caps... i just want sumptin black

if you are going to sand blast them, I would get some really good spray paint, and clear coat, and do nice. Take the tyres off tho.

wouldn't taping the hell out the sides do the same thing? With some masking tape and newspaper?

you could do that, it is jus easier to paint them without tyres. and if you ever put tyre dressing or armorall of somthing on your tyres, it will be hell trying to tape them off. it's up to you.

I say you use some hi-temp engine spray paint.

semi flat krylon, not to shinny and not to flat looks factory, people ask me if i bought em from honda

cool thanks for the replies... i will post some pics when they are done

We got 2 coats on em as of now ... would have started earlier this afternoon but we had to chill at sublimewls's house for like 3 1/2 hrs waiting for a delivery ... anyways on with the pics ... we chose not to mask off the tires since he is getting new ones pretty soon anyway.

Sublimewls working on sandblasting
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p50c02f8fb09517a70a1aba9016aa37be/fc5aa114.jpg

Got the 95 ex propped up on jack stands and the accord rims
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pa67e1c229470f0c3c51eeb0564f265fe/fc5aa102.jpg

We couldnt get the car high enough so we dug down
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p9c73ed2945c5afe2a16f971eac8ce1df/fc5aa0e9.jpg

This came out real blurry for some reason
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p4b757127c74437668f4e1c5710c77160/fc5aa0d4.jpg

Blastin the inside
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pfe8a3df7f8ba83c9e6d5e94045860a25/fc5aa0b4.jpg

Some before pics
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p050a362bcc8f39d27787ac5cd6894f68/fc5aa0a8.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pf4306009a897cd6eeeaefb264a7ce94c/fc5aa09a.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pdfc4c615fd5818ece66713f79a4c10e5/fc5aa08a.jpg

Pic of the table and sandblaster .. the compressor is about 30 feet away in my dads workshop
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p6b476bec276e99e23919a24adbd838b7/fc5aa04d.jpg

A few pics once the blasting was done and we were getting em ready to paint
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p88def0a1a7b75d3cc66d1ce57d0922d7/fc5aa010.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p0456b2ab0d60e27066c7cd601f66842d/fc5a9ffd.jpg

You can see me going at the painting
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pf56592095d7edd6ecabdecfde0089b90/fc5a9fe3.jpg

After the first coat
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p16abec6a571821b887940f7fab5ccad7/fc5a9fcf.jpg

Since we started so late we want the rims to dry ... so off to york2600's to borrow the GSR rims ... tight fit but we got all 4 of em in the back seat of the foe doe
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pfcd677c10e921e2ee2b54b8e2192d5b3/fc5a9fa4.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/pe8de79146fcf022c708789f692ad263c/fc5a9f4e.jpg

Got the front of the GSR on jackstands and the back on the accord rims ... damn these are getting a lot of use
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p35bdb47aaf12cf2b050f280dd7ac96b7/fc5a9f2b.jpg

Gee Melt, you broke the jack and now we cant get the car high enough for these rims ... at least your dad is smart enough to think of putting a block under the jack
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p7c7a3337901d7eeb4a67b2b30a34e33c/fc5a9f00.jpg

Couple pics of the 95 EX on GSR's ... looks pretty good, he might buy these if york2600 ever buys new rims (which will probably be never since he will be broke after the crvtec is done) Damn I look tall in this pic
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p1e8adff8bfb7cc3c405ce9003356daed/fc5a9edc.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p36b73dd975fbd29a7b06cfb90eb88aad/fc5a9ebf.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p8e979b9a1c36701321a6f775f1494755/fc5a9ea6.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid59/p1da746a75ff6d1bf6353de8b4175282d/fc5a9ea0.jpg

Anyways there you guys go ... pics of em on the car to come tommorow.

And if anyone is interested in more pics of the GSR and progress on the swap can be found here.
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96092

Originally posted by Melt
Damn I look tall in this pic


umm, you are pretty tall :D

Yeah but you dont really realise it till you see pics of yourself ... Im in this body all the time you know.

Originally posted by Melt
Yeah but you dont really realise it till you see pics of yourself ... Im in this body all the time you know.

true true.

You know, you could paint the tires black too, keeps 'em lookin' new, and they're 2x as easy to clean. My friend did it to his tires, and they always look clean.

too late for my advice, but ive seen rims painted with that color change paint from duplicolor red/blue and they looked sick!

but your black rims will look hot too.

update ... still havent put em back on the car yet, been raining pretty good here .. possibly tommorow. They look so tight though.

fool you are hella tall

hey maybe you guys are all just short!

anyways ... STILL havent put em back on the car ... and I know york2600 wants his GSR rims back so probably tommorow.

ok so they are FINALLY back on the car ... took some pics today also of some various other stuff so you just have to put up with it

First off, a salvation army truck hit a BMW right in front of my house

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pb3dbf8a63db8f964793b9eba7ca9dd68/fc536617.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p59dd929ee29d8fabcd04ed1d58982bee/fc536605.jpg

Ok now onto the real pics
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pab0c1daf6bac44f99ec6a7b6d825d8b2/fc5365dc.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pf0a0fb0627417721b7c8b4c6d8605247/fc536506.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pe6e4f09029b773839851979dc99480e0/fc5364e4.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pcaa2f240ada329ea80a54f9b19639761/fc5365c8.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p536244123c465c72ca21d01f8fc789b5/fc53654d.jpg

Its all about the white ... now if they were all 5th gen civics it would be funnier
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p30597dc823f0c0aeeca94e46cac8e67c/fc5365a3.jpg

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p1f848b60ba85edce9df5efbd41fb6907/fc536567.jpg

Got the GSR rims back on the teg ... damn a lot of different ones have been on here
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p0d050e321b75815e02d2e5c6c2f245b8/fc536591.jpg

york2600's moms 2003 Accord V6 coupe 6spd ... leather, fully loaded
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pc8ae1d3f1e4808cb2ba2336ddb94ba78/fc53657b.jpg

The ghetto rigged fastrak transponder in my moms accord (my car was in the shop gettin a new axle)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/pbd1bdd717aae775b701eea4351b8e4ec/fc536541.jpg

another shot of the accord
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p604f940465f0d17b9347aae4f2e05f9d/fc536516.jpg

And the 86 accord rims are home safe and sound ... nemo_wolf is buyin all 4 of these off me cause his are bent
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p395f9dbf719cec59c8fb1962219f1087/fc5364c0.jpg

Nice lexus by my house
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid60/p41d0a2e5df70886bef22a6842daef6cc/fc5364ae.jpg