SON1C's New Shoes! Wheel Painting + Pictures + Guidelines How To - 30+ Hours

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The background story... I've had these bullitts and like new tires sitting in my garage for a year or so, I took them off my last mustang before I sold it and just put a pair of used bullitts and eh tires on, I don't care for these bullitts because they're 17's and the tires are 245 45's all around.. (hopefully picking up a set of wheel spacers to solve one of the issues this causes lol) So I didn't want to sell them because i'd be wasting $ in a time I don't have much to spare.. so I thought.. How can I make these sweet.. I've always been a fan of colored lips so I saw the opportunity, some suggested powder coating? waste of money to me and whats the fun in that.. so finally .. this is how SON1C got his new shoes and yours could too

The Prep...

Most would rate these bullitts 8-9/10
anyone who knows me being a perfectionist.. I'd say more of a 7..
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However it did hurt to take sandpaper to these, and a couple times I wondered.. what did I just do! lol
Began decontamination of the tire..
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Mothers foaming wheel and tire cleaner is incredible stuff, pick up a bottle and you'll be amazed at what it can pull out.. and more so disgusted lol, these have been treated before so they weren't too bad and I use quality dressing / protectant etc
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Wet sanded with 320, resanded several areas to get full coverage, bit of a learning curve to these wheels and I don't do painting projects too often, I painted my mirrors cobra termi style, I could compile it into a writeup similar to this as well, they came out very well -> shoutout to froush

I'm a big believer in... get more than you need, so you definitely won't have to stop and go back to the store! lol
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Unfortunately I didn't have access to a nice indoor painting space, so all the work was done outdoors, which did negatively effect the final product.
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I used playing cards to protect the tire from spray, great for "ease of use, make sure they stay wrapped tight enough so the spray doesn't creep through, and unfortunately the wind did blow them off a couple times, so use with caution and or on a nice.. non windy day..
 
Now the fun begins.. base sandable primer followed the primer sealer
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I ####### love this primer, its awesome, fills great, looks great, and sits so well, I mean you'd have to try to mess this stuff up, how awesome is that? lol if only the color paint played so nice..
onto laying the satin black krylon! I learned the hard way, do not mix paints, it caused a weird adhering problem which I was only able to correct by spraying onto krylon extremely lightly later on..
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and onto the fun taping, this took a full afternoon into evening if not more..
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#### yeah...
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Switched to this tape from lowes for roughly 8 bucks, and its all I'll ever use now, great product and the case is nice and will be reused for wax applicators or clay or something (detailing ftw)
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One day I set everything back up only to realize it was too windy for the cards to stay, talk about wasted time..
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Post for installed pics -> Going to install after I get a day to put my springs on and hopefully spacers
 
That is a great idea to keep over spray from the tires. Too bad you were fighting the wind as you didnt have any indoor room.
 
Very nice! I'm assuming that you get wheel rub on the inner fender wells. Reason for getting spacers. I get the same thing with stock wheels and tires.
 
not sure I am a fan of the blue lips, but no one can deny your efforts and the outcome. Wow !
 
smack said:
That is a great idea to keep over spray from the tires. Too bad you were fighting the wind as you didnt have any indoor room.
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Yeah its such a convenience, yeah but what can you do :buffing:
rider9195 said:
Very nice! I'm assuming that you get wheel rub on the inner fender wells. Reason for getting spacers. I get the same thing with stock wheels and tires.
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the tires sit in sometimes if the tire isn't wide enough on my year mustang, I run 275s and they barely fit the bill imo, 305-315 look sweet, but 245s sit in too much imo, so the spacers should solve, fortunately they don't rub, but I did run iirc 255s in the front on my old mustang and it would rub in the front in harder turns, gets quite annoying.. lol
killrwheels@autogeek said:
not sure I am a fan of the blue lips, but no one can deny your efforts and the outcome. Wow !
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oh comeon killr wheels, I'm just trying to have.. killer wheels! its directly matched to paint color, if its not then I'm not a fan of colored lips, but I love it, it was just great to put an idea / concept into reality
 
Great work, i dont love those wheels but they arent bad either. I think instead of a blue lip maybe a blue pin stripe wouldve been better.
 
Wow nice work and I love the playing card idea, with no wind that is an awesome way to shield the tires.
 
OhTwoGT said:
Great work, i dont love those wheels but they arent bad either. I think instead of a blue lip maybe a blue pin stripe wouldve been better.
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I did these to be in your face, I might pin stripe the saleens when I repaint those, with the amount of time it takes you want it to be noticed lol
 
Meghan said:
Wow nice work and I love the playing card idea, with no wind that is an awesome way to shield the tires.
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Thanks! Yeh it works with low wind but the wind was pretty bad a couple days, but no worries
 
Dude! Playing Cards! What a great idea.

Pure gold.

Rick

P.S.: Nice job too.
 
SUPERB Job on the wheels,you have some skills that are to be admired. :dblthumb2:
 
its funny how i was just thinking about doing the same thing to my stang in the last few days. except my car is all black and thought it would look great with the blue metallic lips and my friends tried to push me toward red but is it possible if you could message me the paint codes or models.thanks
 
I'd do it! except on black I love black and red, blue would definitely be mroe unique, I've never seen anyone really go through with blue, I'd like to see the results regardless
I used duplicolor direct match paint in my paint code -> sonic blue -> sn
 
SON1C said:
I'd do it! except on black I love black and red, blue would definitely be mroe unique, I've never seen anyone really go through with blue, I'd like to see the results regardless
I used duplicolor direct match paint in my paint code -> sonic blue -> sn
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Thanks for the reply. i just created a youtube channel and am starting to upload videos of some mods. hopefully ill make a video when i do this to my car.please check out my channel.thanks

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDIYcarMODS/videos?view=0
 
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