That looks mint! Good work man. I'm also keen to know what paint you used. I'm going to do this to a couple of pairs i have. Do you have any other tips besides the ones in this thread?
wow they look
what colour paint did u use
spray cans?
That looks mint! Good work man. I'm also keen to know what paint you used. I'm going to do this to a couple of pairs i have. Do you have any other tips besides the ones in this thread?
what did you use to polish the lip???
fozz, samc. I went down the the hardware store and brought some decent primer, and heavy duty ''gold' paint and some paint stripper. Used the stripper to get all the old crap off and couple of coats of primer and then 3-4 coats of the gold, went through 2 and abit cans of gold paint. only other tip is, if you have air in the tyres...let it out lol, alot less pressure on the rim.
Chapl: I gave it a light buff with a polising wheel, but mostly used mothers rim polish, couple of goes with that and they cam up pretty good
thanks for that haydenzz. i was thinking of sand blasting mine rather than paint stripper. I will remember the paint though.
Cheers
-Sam
yea I would reccommend sandblasting rather than what I did, I could have but I fixed mine up over a friday/sat morning session, so i could have them ready for the sunday to be put on. but they have turned out great for the quick job I did
cheers man I'm gonna try that on my rims soon
^ like wise.
hayden, damn I shold have had a look at these wheels when your were around, but fuck i was pretty dazed still.
Damn there nice!
Just a thought - to remove the centres without bashing them, as long as there are no tyres on them you could heat the outer rim with a gas torch to expand it and the centre would probably drop out. Basically the opposite to how they make the welded 2 piece rims :2thumbs:
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