Painted my new rims(Split 5s)!!!! DUW**

[grey5.0beast]

What you think?
before:

After:

After second stagemasking took FOREVER!!)

In the process of fuxing the lines using a small brush, the tape wasn't that great

75 bucks for these rims and tires in case you missed my other thread!!!

 

[BK_CAULEY]

noice. i had the same ones on my last GT vert. i had them chromed and it looked good.

 

[iwashmycar]

looks good! what paint did you use

 

[Mr. Rustypwnz]

sweet thumbnail.... looks good

 

[86bluecobra]

looks pretty good. I don't really care for those paticular rims however but your paint job did improve there look.

 

[ryan218]

whenever you paint anything with curves go to autozone and but some striping tape. you will be able to curve it around the tight in and outs of the wheels...

looks good though!

 

[mob]

I like how they were the first time. They look good but would have looked better all silver. Im painting my wheels gunmetal right now. Ill get some pics up within the next week or so. They look sickkkk, would look sooo hot on those wheels.

 

[rigamaroles]

Looks good man. You gonna respray the surface? I think a set of 97 Cobras would have looked sweet on your car, but those are pretty slick too.

 

[grey5.0beast]

Looks good man. You gonna respray the surface? I think a set of 97 Cobras would have looked sweet on your car, but those are pretty slick too.

By surface you mean the face of the rim? It is newly painted silver, it came out perfect too. I just need to touch up the outside of the rim a lil better. On the car it is going to look awesome! It is almost a perfect match to my paint scheme on the car!!

 

[grey5.0beast]

I hadn't even planned on doing this, but the deal was just so good I couldn't pass it up!!

 

[rigamaroles]

So it is, I missed the second pic. Looks good, man.

 

[grey5.0beast]

Thanks for all the compliments guys, I painted them using Duplicolor High performance wheel paint. Came out awesome!

 

[93FiveO]

Nice I like,and good deal on the rims/tires

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Try using blue masking tape next time...it bends a little easier than the cheaper white tape. Also for the paint edges use the skinniest tape you can find for the edge, then go back over with the wide for coverage. It also peels up easier.

 

[grey5.0beast]

Yeah I might sand this one down tomorrow and redo it completely. The others I will use the skinnier tape. Thanks!

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

When you do the curves...don't try to BEND the tape....you'll tear off a small piece and tape it along the line, then do another small piece...and another and so on. If you take your time you'll get a perfect curve.


Alternately if you have a steady hand, you can take the wide tape and just tape OVER the line, and then cut out with an exacto and make your curve.

 

[DEFWISH]

haha those look familiar . theyre nine inch wide ones right? i've measured mine and they measure out to 9's.

 

[fastgtfairlane]

i painted my rims too. when you do the rest of the rims, i would just tape off the front part of the rim and leave the inside corner the new color. it will be a hell of a lot easier to just tape off the outer part of the rim. the corner im talking about is on the 2nd to last pic. just tape off the top part. it will look like it was made that way and that is an easier line for the color transition.

 

[Mustang5L5]

haha those look familiar . theyre nine inch wide ones right? i've measured mine and they measure out to 9's.

Those wheels are 17x8's from the factory