After getting a second hand set of wheels for racing purposes this friday I spent the entire weekend doing my best to make them look good again.

For about $20 bucks in steel wool, cleaner, paint and sandpaper I have turned a cosmetically challenged set of rims into a color matched and eye catching set of weekend racing wheels.

I have included some pics below just in case anyone needs inspiratioin for their own related project.

 

nice job. nice toe.

 

wow those look awesome

 

dude thats bad ass!!! how long did it take u? my rims are lookin pretty bad.

 

Man those look sweet....what kind of paint did u use?

 

Thank you for the compliments.

To answer the questions in order.

It took me around 24 hours of labor to clean, file and sand out the blemishes, roughen the entire surface (by hand with sandpaper), clean again, mask, spray on the black paint and brush on the red.

It could take much less time to perform a similar project, but I am VERY detail orienged about working on my own shit.

For ease of fiding matching paint when fixing nicks and blemishes the paint is flat black and red rust-oleum enamel spray paint.

To do the red I sprayed some into a cap, diluted it with some acetone and brushed it on by hand.

Its certainly not powder coating but it looks good and is easy to touch up.

 

nice toes... (in the last pic) tee hee... and good job

the paint just makes them heavier, though

 

lets see a pic of them on the car, oh yea good job.

 

Thanks. Tomorrow we all will see how they look on the car.

I'm looking forward to it.

 

ooooooh... i kinda would have loved them more if you left the red off.. but it still looks tizight. =-)

ghetto mod done well!