Repainting Steelies

[Melt]

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?

[Melt]

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

[sublimewls]

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

[91EF3ZC]

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.

[sublimewls]

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

[91EF3ZC]

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.

[Marc-OS]

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

[H4Bangin]

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

[sublimewls]

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

[Melt]

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


Got the 95 ex propped up on jack stands and the accord rims


We couldnt get the car high enough so we dug down


This came out real blurry for some reason


Blastin the inside


Some before pics






Pic of the table and sandblaster .. the compressor is about 30 feet away in my dads workshop


A few pics once the blasting was done and we were getting em ready to paint




You can see me going at the painting


After the first coat


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




Got the front of the GSR on jackstands and the back on the accord rims ... damn these are getting a lot of use


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


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








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/vbul...threadid=96092

[GTA]

Originally posted by Melt
Damn I look tall in this pic

umm, you are pretty tall

[Melt]

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

[GTA]

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.

[Marc-OS]

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.

[crxlvr]

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.