i had a little more time on my hands than usual this weeked so me and my friend painted my steelies. yes, if you can't tell im a total cheap ***, but thats cool, i guess thats why i drive a crx.


so we went ahead and lightly sanded the parts we wanted to paint, degreased and washed the steelies.


we then tapped all the parts we didn't want to paint


and after we painted we then pulled off all the tape and this is what we came out with





all in all i don't think it turned out too bad, cost about 5 bucks, and it will keep me satisfied till im done with my motor and can afford to do something with the exterior. let me know what you think

 

ahhaha

thats awesome

you should sand down your body and do another layer of flat black though to get rid of them stripes

other than that, they look ok.

I bought my 3rd crx flat black, and he had those wheels flat black also...I ended up changing them out for si blades (i like wider tires in snow)

 

That looks pretty damn sweet. Good job man!

 

god help you if you ever go to actually make the car look nice on the outside. the idiot that had my crx before me painted it flat black before i got it, that cheap **** is hell to sand off. it gums up the sandpaper and you have to constantly blow it out or replace it. it even sucks with a da.

 

go after that **** with a thicker paper on the DA

as soon as it is half way warm out (this spring) i'll be redoing the body work on my crx that i just got...


I hit this flat black / w the pressure washer and it just came off

imo a dark urethane primer looks 100x better.

 

rims came out nice

 

thats nuts
cool stuff

 

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Its gummed up because you need to wet sand it with 1500 grit to 2000 grit paper.and do it only hand soft
WTF wow you did have some time on your hands I think it came out pretty nice
I like them

 

very nice looking... must have taken forever to tape up the lip.

 

1500-2000 to remove paint?? He'll be sanding his car for a week.

 

yeah, the flat black is only temporary, hopefully this spring ill be able to do it properly. just in too much of a hurry and at the time just didn't care. probably going to bite me in the *** later.

but really and truely i think me and my friend spent about 2 hours on the wheels total. really was easier than i thought. we just got some wide tape and tore it into about 2 inch sections and did little by litte, once you get the inner part done you can use much larger sections of tape. probably about 10 min a wheel to tape them up, then laid towels on the tires just to protect from overspray. thanks for the comments so far.

 

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Its gummed up because you need to wet sand it with 1500 grit to 2000 grit paper.and do it only hand soft
WTF wow you did have some time on your hands I think it came out pretty nice
I like them </TD></TR></TABLE>

ooook buddy

 

Thats awesome, you just gave me an idea for my daily driver 4dr ED

 

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haha awesome

 

Looks tight I was gonna do the same thing, now I know what it will look like

 

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I like

 

I like it alot.

BTW, I think those are the same rims I have, where'd you get the tires?

I'm having a hell of a time finding 13in Tires....

 

looks clean, I respect what you did.

Keep up the good work

 

i just striped my steelies and painted them orange they are JDM tite yo!

 

not too different, many people have done it

 

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BTW, I think those are the same rims I have, where'd you get the tires?

I'm having a hell of a time finding 13in Tires....</TD></TR></TABLE>

actually the tires came with the car so im not exactly sure where you could get the same ones, but im sure someone in here knows of a good place where you could find some tires that would fit your steelies. have you tried vulcantire.com?

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thats why i said a little.

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did i say no one else had? but cool. thanks for the comments

 

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How about some pictures?

 

looks really fast ! your a racer !

 

holy ****! it looks sweet!!!! lol

 

Not bad looking at all deff cool idea