Okay so Ive been thinking about either painting or powdercoating my stock rims. I wanted to get a thread of as many examples as I could. I did some searching but didnt turn up much.

So lets go...if you have stock SS/TC rims either painted or powder coated post your pics!!

Brownie points if your car is Imperial Blue

Please SS/TC ONLY!! You know someones gonna ignore this...

 

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...dercoated+rims

 

Or this one

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...t=Powdercoated

 

What the hell.... I tried search and found nothing but bull. Thanks for the links!

 

do it...its sexy

 

Heres matte black on mine

 

to bad you have 18's or else i could powdercoat them!

 

i would say gold or bronze. seen it and it looks great.

 

Have them chromed ...... Chrome wheels on Imp. Blue is sexy.



This is what I'm planning for mine in over the winter. Images courtesy of GTPprix









Or you can go black chrome like this guy in this thread https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...=chrome+wheels

 

black chrome im doing that FASHO

 

Mines powder coated steel gray

 

See thats whats tough, nobody has any pictures of painted/powdercoated/chromed stock SS/TC wheels on an Imperial blue SS. I wish there were some examples out there because I think the powdercoating looks great on all the other color cars, but its hard to guess what itll look like on the imperial blue.

I tried photoshopping it a bunch of times, but I suck at that and it looked stupid

 

cant wait to get mine repainted this week.

 

Are yours painted or powdercoated?Why the need for a repaint?

 

What are you giong to do this time?

 

The thing im basing it on is an 02 Z24 i had that was almost the identical blue as your SS. The rims were almost the same as our's but were chrome..... It was a great looking set up.

Best i could do is rob one from someone's myspace lol

 

right now mine are rattlecanned gloss black. Taking autobody classes, and I have the chance to work on my own stuff in the paint booth. Gonna be sanding all the black off today, shooting with etch prime tomorrow, then thursday gonna be repainting black with gold pearl in the clear. going to be doing that to every thing black on my car. makes it look black but when the sun hits it it has alot of pearl in it and looks more bronze. So far my front lip is done like this



^cell phone pic, but you get the idea.

the rattle can job is holding up suprisingly well. only chips are from changing tires, new tires dont have that protective curb rash lip the OEM tire had, which left a silver ring around the rim where the paint never got to with the other tire on, had to go around them with a touch up brush but other then that, they look amazing for duplicolor

 

Wow man that's going to look amazing. My dad does fabrication and powdercoating for a company that makes 8 wheel ATVs and I'm gonna see what kind of powder he can get me. I want to do something different than the standard black. It'll take some thinking, but I should be able to come up with something.

 

picked up my paint today from carquest, got a pint of black that gets reduced 1-1 so that should be enough, left the rattle can paint on the rims but scuffed it up real good and did a little test with medium reducer to see if it wrinkled, it didnt, but it did start coming off. since im painting black over it im not worried about it bleeding into the color or anything as its the same damn color. but the carquest guy gave me the gold pearl i need, black, and reducer for 28 bucks. thats one hell of a deal. im exited! already have the clear and hardner so that cut the price in half

 

That sound like it's gonna be awesome. I know this probably goes without saying but you should post some pics when you're finished. Casey (09turbo) did his to where they are almost gunmetal inside but when a good light hits them they are bronze and it looks good on his black one. I bet this will look awesome too with the gold pearl.

 

i will, i took some better pics of my fron tlip with my real camera, putting up a x-mas tree so ill get on that in a bit lol



she's dirty




ready to paint these bitches!

 

That lip looks good and if its anything to use as a predictor those wheels are gonna be sick!

 

It is beyond me how you guys can ruin an absolutely new set of wheels.

 

Just so you know, your wheels are painted and cleared. and when the dealer gets a car in, if the rims are damaged, they just repaint them silver and clear them.

Paint is paint, sole purpose is to protect and make it asthetically pleasing. I would much rather "ruin" a new set of rims by making them more asthetically pleasing to myself then to pull too close to the drive through and scratch the **** outta one and ruin it

 

Like yourself, I had taken night classes on auto painting just for fun. Just have to finish the second part (advance) of the courses which includes tri-coats etc.. I've am looking into putting some color on front plastic grills. Not the whole grill but maybe just the face.
Have fun spraying...