Quick pic of my wheels. The previous owner curbed the chit out of the wheels so I repaired all the surface damage as good as I Could and the lip damage (which was a son of a bitch) Painted them graphite (which was a son of a bitch) and I have yet to clear them but I will rock them for a couple weeks and see how they old up. I will be driving down to Oklahoma next week which is 1600 miles round trip so it should be a good judge of how the paint will hold up without clear. If anyone wants the steps I took I would be more then happy to explain the details further Sanding/prep etc. I will have some pics of it on the car next Tuesday when they get re-balanced and thrown on the car. ALso threw in a quick pic I took of the car a couple weeks ago on that foggy ass night we had.
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SVT 5's in Graphite and a night time pic
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They look good, let me know how you like those tires.
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The Fuzion ZRI's have been awesome for the 4500 miles I put on them before winter. I took a trip down to Tulsa last September on the tires and they were much really quite compared to the old chinese shit the previous owner had on there. They really are great tires and For the price I cant complain. They have been great in the dry and rain. Cold and snow they are HORRIBLE but that is to be expected with a summer only high performance tire. When it got down to freezing temperatures they are like hard plastic but it doesnt matter, I swapped over the SVTC wheels and Hankook winter's.FORDSVTPARTS wrote:They look good, let me know how you like those tires.
Heres a pic next to the car from the cell phone - excuse the dirty ass car
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Ya it ishermitmaster wrote:Is that the DupliColor Wheel Coating?
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Yes I painted them with the tires still on and I didnt tape it off I used the Note Card technique. Basically stick the notecards in between the lip and the bead like so:hermitmaster wrote:Did you paint the wheels with the tires on? If so, how did you tape off?
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how much is the paint? and where do u get it? and is it something a novice painter can do and have it still turn out decent?
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It takes TIME. The faster you do this, the crappier it will turn out. You need to do all the prep work thoroughly to get it to turn out correctly.
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bout how much time would u say u spent on prep and paint?
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They look really good, nice job .
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I would say i spent 5 hours prepping but I fixed probably 90% of the curbage. There was some bubble'n by the lugs on a couple of the wheels that I didnt worry about due to the fact that I would have had to remove massive chunks of paint that wouldnt have filled properly imo. I probably have 8 hours wrapped up with all of the sanding/bondo/sanding/bondo/sanding/primer/sanding/paint. That doesnt even take into account that you have to clean the wheels like 5 times and then let them dry. Really not to bad as it was spread out over the course of a couple of weeks. If you have some clean wheels I would say you could EASILY knock it out in a weekend if the weather participates. To whoever asked about the cost it is $5.99 a can for Graphite/Silver/Black/Clear at advanced auto/o'rielly's. Primer is 4.99 and i used Duplicolor FP101 if i recall sandable grey primer. I can get a full list of what I used if anyone is seriously considering doing it.blcksvt2003 wrote:bout how much time would u say u spent on prep and paint?
They make white, too....
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