^title. Did you like the way it came out and can you post pics? I want a dark color for the wheels, and the only duplicolor wheel paint options I see are flat black or graphite. I want a stealthy look but am unsure about the flat black.

And I don't feel like powder coating things right now, as I had new tires put on and balanced not long ago. Plus I'm making new centerpieces out of plastic hemispheres and I'm going to paint them the same color as the rest of the wheel.

Please do not paint the Shoguns, I'll trade you rims to paint. The shoguns are just too pretty.

I am curious about this myself, my rims are getting a little worn on the exterior, machined face doesn't look so pretty anymore, and I think a graphite color would hide some of the curb rash on them.

I cant complain. Mine turned out awesome.



But be warned, they WILL chip if you knick them with a lug wrench or any other tool. I have yet to have a set just start peeling for no reason, but they are still now where as strong as powdercoat.

That paint is the best fuckin paint in the world though. I painted my intake mani and fuel rail on my eclipse and it turned out beautiful without even clear coating.

I did once then changed the Color to bronze, I liked the Graphite alot, but needed a change after about a year. Just make sure you Clear the Hell out of them, The paint loses luster after a while due to brake dust

Thanks guys. I think that color looks pretty nice on the 1g, but it's not what I was expecting either. I agree with Ryan - I don't want to mess up the shoguns - but I don't think I want to trade wheels either ha. If I rice this ish up I'm gonna get angry.

I have another idea. I just wet sanded a small portion of one of the wheels with 2000 grit. This removed a lot of the ugliness already - a lot of debris marks and junk that I haven't been able to get off any other way. (and I've tried just about everything.) The surface is now scuffed but at least homogenous in appearance. What if I just wet sand the whole wheel, and clear coat it with duplicolor clear coat? Anyone done that? I trying to imagine what that would look like.

Originally posted by ez
Thanks guys. I think that color looks pretty nice on the 1g, but it's not what I was expecting either. I agree with Ryan - I don't want to mess up the shoguns - but I don't think I want to trade wheels either ha. If I rice this ish up I'm gonna get angry. I have another idea. I just wet sanded a small portion of one of the wheels with 2000 grit. This removed a lot of the ugliness already - a lot of debris marks and junk that I haven't been able to get off any other way. (and I've tried just about everything.) The surface is now scuffed but at least homogenous in appearance. What if I just wet sand the whole wheel, and clear coat it with duplicolor clear coat? Anyone done that? I trying to imagine what that would look like.

You should not sand the color coat of paint and then clear over it. If you need to get debris out of your paint job, sand it with 800 or higher and then reapply a color coat. You do not need to sand the whole wheel, just the spots that have debris in them. After the color coat has flashed (dried), you can then clear it.

Originally posted by totaleclipse_05
You should not sand the color coat of paint and then clear over

These enkei's have no paint, it's just exposed alloy. The center portion that has a polished finish has clear coat (which is flaking off badly.) My question is about clear coating over the bare alloy after I wetsand it.

I'm stuck at home right now because my car is in pieces.

I'm in the middle of doing the wheels now. I'm using aircraft remover (wow it makes things easy) to take off the clear coat, then polishing with an aluminum polish called white diamonds (neighbor saw me working on the car and brought that stuff over - it's awesome stuff). I took a dremel to the one wheel that had minor rash, and then wet sanded it too. It will be finished with a polish and then recleared. About $30 for all the materials. It's going to look so much better than painted wheels. I'll post comparison pics after I'm done

Next, I'm going to repaint the stock centers with Metalcast red, and compare them to my homemade centers.

oh man, the heck with this. I tried to remove the clear coat for the unpolished (outside) portion of the wheels, and it has taken me like 2 hours to get 50-60% of it off, on one wheel. Even with the aircraft remover, the clear is not giving me an easy time, and some residue remains.

I need to find a nearby shop that can sand blast this ish off.

Quitter :P

Buy a sandblaster, you will not regret it, I'm going to soon. I have the technology (compressor if you will), and I can ALWAYS find a use for a sandblaster!

Originally posted by 95_ESi_Person
Buy a sandblaster, you will not regret it, I'm going to soon. I have the technology (compressor if you will), and I can ALWAYS find a use for a sandblaster!

that's what I'm thinking about doing. I hear that aluminum should be media blasted not sand blasted, and you can use plastic bead or walnut shells instead. I came across a huge sack of walnuts in my grandmas garage - I better make use of them.

Originally posted by ez
I came across a huge sack of walnuts in my grandmas garage - I better make use of them.

Thats going to be my new quote.

Originally posted by edxmon

Originally posted by ez I came across a huge sack of walnuts in my grandmas garage - I better make use of them.

Thats going to be my new quote.

:+ oh man, that's funny shit right there!

another simple household item you can use for media blasting is baking soda, works great on paint, doesn't even faze the metal underneath, we've used it on old rusty jags that if you even tried to use something heavier we'd have lost half of the car

I've been quoted before, but that's by far the best.

Anyways, I'm getting everything powdercoated tomorrow. Either gunmetal or black, haven't decided... with silver metal flake... what can I say, my mexican genes took over

WAT?! Im proud to be born and raised in Mexico. And dont wory both of those colors will look great! I vote gun metal though.