I love the look man! So many people on this board are afraid of anything DIY, but I'm glad you're proving to people there's no need to pay someone to do a job that can be done on your own.

EXCELLENT WORK!!

 

Thanks man. I'm glad people appreciate the DIY'ers.

 

telling me to sftu because you too are a member of the ghetto garage? LOL. frugality to the next level I tell ya. btw, i'd rather be a newbie than a fool who spray paints Z parts.

 

Kiddo, STFU!
45 posts and over half of them talking $#!T in this thread.
Many people do that with inexpensive wheels. Beats the crap out of spending hours on sidewalk with q-tips cleaning the 3K+ set of Volks.
If you don't like to do that, get a ******* set of 22" Asantis with spinners and go roll around whatever sh*thole you came out of like the main pimp. From your childish attitude, your disdain for any inexpensive solution and your poor language skills, you seem just like the type.
So, once again, STFU and take your trolling elsewhere.

PS Supra guy, nice job.

 

please settle down guys...the OP did a great job imo being that this was a DIY. That alone deserves a pat on the back. It actually turned out quite well too I must say.

Wish I had the ***** to do this myself.

Alex <-- Guy with the q-tips cleaning his volks...

 

Sorry about that outburst.
This little idiot just got to me and I am not even the OP. The first couple of times noone paid attention, then he starts repeating this over and over and over for god knows what reason.
I myself made a mistake of getting a set of 18" 2 piece racinghart cpf-tuners. Without daily cleansing they have quickly fallen into a state of neglect.
My next project car, I am getting a set of simple Cray wheels (the line is owned by TSW) they are originally mean for Corvettes, but can fit a GTO and offer a good choice of widths and offesets. And the set of 4 rims is about 800, so it will not make that big of a deal not to go crazy ofer them too much.

 

Thanks, but I wouldn't touch volks man. lol If I were to paint any other brand of rims, I would definitely take it to get powdercoated.

The only thought in my mind was "what do I have to lose". The answer was $20 bucks in rim paint, lol. If I messed up, I would be forced to get it done by a pro. BTW Your ride is sick dude, my hats off to you.

 

someone forgot to take his pills today LOL. calm down buddy.

 

tsukaz - you're pretty worthless. Just look at all your other posts.

https://my350z.com/forum/search.php?searchid=2224612

I especially like the one where you thought trading a an OEM bumper for an Aerosync was bad deal...idiot

https://my350z.com/forum/showthread.php?t=219618

 

Have you reviewed your body of work lately...

 

hey 97supratt - Any thought of painting your calipers the same color as your lugs?

 

In what way? I'm not malicious towards anyone just for the sake of being a dick, where as this guy just likes to talk **** to EVERYONE. In my short time here, only one guy annoyed me for his inability to search, and since then he has made positive strides and I commended him for that. Tell me how I'm similar to someone like tsukaz?

My point in calling someone like tsukaz out to show that he just expresses his view in a crude way. If you don't like someone's work that's fine, but the OP did a great job, and constructive criticism is more warranted than blatent rudeness.

 

I had painted the front calipers blue, but I never liked it so I might paint all the calipers the brembo gold color until I actually find a decent set of brembos for a good price.

 

I think the rims turned out realyly good. I would hazard a guess that 90% of the people here who preach powdercoating have never actually had it done to their own rims. I've personally spray painted wheels with wheel paint for friends and I had a set of rims powdercoated and I can honestly say that I WILL NEVER POWDERCOAT AGAIN. Once that stuff starts chipping, you can't fix it. I had some pretty big gashes in the powdercoat and I couldn't do anything to actually fix it. Only cover it up with black nail polish. At least with spray paint, you can do a local sand and respray and you'll never know that it was chipped.

 

sorry to bring this thread back, but did you wet sand your wheels after painting and clearcoating? Or did you stick with the finish you got from the spray?

Also, it looks like the duplicolor can you used was flat black, but from the pictures, the wheels look to be a semi-gloss black. Are you happy with the finish, or would you want a flatter or higher-gloss finish?

 

I didn't wet sand, I just dry sanded the wheels before applying the paint. Yes it was a flat black finish and I applied some gloss. I wanted the semi-gloss look because gloss black is a bit too flashy.

Heres an update for everyone, "NO FLAKING"! This coating is pretty damn good, no scratches or chips.

 

wait...can't u just get the rota's in black from day one when you bought em?

 

Not plain black. There's hyper black, gloss black with a red lip, or flat black with a red lip

 

Yup.

 

I love the finished product!