I'm going to go to flat black. I have the powdercoater and oven large enough to do it myself, and I'll be getting new tires soon, so I'd like to powdercoat the wheels.

For anyone that has done this:
- Did you media blast or use a (EDIT) chemical stripper to remove the paint?
- Did you polish the wheel before you powdercoated?
- Would it make a difference if I polish because they are going to be black?
- Did you powdercoat the ENTIRE wheel (inside rim, bead,) or just the front & back?
- Did you preheat the wheel prior to powdercoating?

 

Interesting...

 

How much would you have to pay a stripper to take paint off your wheels?




j/k, I'm kinda interested in this as well as I will be powdercoating a set of wheels this winter.

 

Yes, this is the best winter project. I don't think you will find anyone on this board that powdercoated their wheels or any wheels. I would start looking on other forums/internet for that. But good luck with it

 

I had mine powdercoated Gloss Black.

-Media blasted
-no
-no idea
-entire wheel bead and all
-yes I had the wheels heated after blasting to release any gasses in the aluminum so the powdercoating would not bubble and look like ****. Its still a chancy job, but mine came out fine.

 

You may wanna check the SRT-4 Forums cause this is a common thing among them.

 

-Chemical stripper(less chance to mess up the wheel and make sure u wash the rim VERY well after)
-Do not polish(just makes ithe job harder to do)
-Yes ^^^^^
-Yes
-Yes ,slowly raise the temp to around 400 with rims in oven, pull out ,coat and back in to bake.
Hope that helps.

 

how big the oven got to be? will this mess up the oven so u cant cook food in it after?

 

Big enough to fit the parts in and yes, it will have fumes in it that I personally wouldn't want to cook in it afterwards.

 

It is my understanding that any oven meant for food wont do the job properly. You'd need to look towards an industrial oven, sometimes even called a "powder coating oven".

 

a regular oven that gets up to 450 degrees will work fine, but as previously stated - once you use it to powdercoat, you can't use it to prepare food anymore.

In my case I have a very large oven capable of doing the rims. I've been preparing to do this.

SS/SCking, thank you so much for answering the questions. I think I have one more.

There's a lot of people online saying this effects the integrity of the wheel. I can't see this being an issue because this is a common procedure. Know if this is an urban legend?

 

Steel is Tempered at 500 degrees, so its Close! Just make sure you cool them fast Locks the Carbon in so the steel retains its orignal Hardness!

 

The SS/SC wheels are aluminum and not steel. This takes care of the carbon problem you might have in steel wheels. The only you could run in to is if your wheel has imperfections in it (ie.small gas bubbles). This would only be a problem if you did not slowly heat the wheel. If you take you time and do it right you should not have a problem.

 

Also, DO NOT cool them quickly. That's good way to warp or crack ANY metal if you don't know what you are doing. We're not heat treating here guys, we're baking.

 

I have a "cool down" mode in my oven, I'm going to figure out how that works before I do the wheels

 

Damnit another person doing what I was going to do while my winter tires and ims are on the car...garrrrr!

 

I took this pic of a black blat with Powdercoated OMF wheels at one of our MN meets.

 

God damn the wheels look hot black on black... I want it done.. LoL

 

Whos car is that? Are they on here?

 

Yes he is on here, his name is --> Mike06cobalt If you cant figure out how to look him up on here then just go into the Minnesota rooms and find his name.

 

Cool thanks

 

My SS/SC has the black 18"s on it already. I'll have pics on monday when I go back to school. Red on black is money.

 

Cool post them, mine will be done this winter.

 

there is a dude that has already done this I just to remember the name of the thread. there is also another dude that painted the lip and inner sides of the spokes giving the rims a very 3d image look