If anyone knows any good places to have wheel work done, I'd appreciate it. I've been looking around and trying to find some wheels for my car, but none really spark big interest. So I thought, why can't I just modify the ones I have? Is it possible to take them to a wheel shop somewhere, maybe have them sand blasted down, and resprayed or something? I think the stock SI wheels would look good in another color, like gunmetal, or maybe even black... not sure, I should photoshop them and see for myself, but I am lazy, just wanting to know if it is possible.

 

Okay, so I got bored... heres the kind of color I was thinking. This is my car at the Ft Worth Auto Show, the rear wheel has been shopped, the front wheel is normal.... comments?

 

ya dude any were that does powder coating should be able to do your wheels ill put up some pics of what im going to do to mine

 

chop em' in black......
i like the gunmetal

 

the gunmetal looks good

 

"i'd hit that"
for a reasonable price i will do that to my wheels

 

photoshopping black is a little harder, they might come out looking funky. I might try to make them black tonight.

 

Look up what poeple have done using "aircraft remover" and repainting.



I used aircraft remover on my old Integra wheels and it just peels the paint right off. I wet sanded afterwards, because I didn't have a buffer or even a dremel at the time. I painted mine black, but I have seem some very good Bronze and Gunmetals done as well. I had the car for about 3 more years after that and the only paint that was missing was from the occasional curbage. They have wheel paints now at the stores.

If the wheels have that silver paint on them then aircraft remover is good, but if they are polished metal then you would just have to wetsand them pretty good to break up the surface.

It was a risk because I didn't know how they would turn out, but I was happy in the end.

 

powder coating... you can do any color you basically want

 

Anyone want to elaborate more on this "powder coating" I'm still unsure as to what that is.

 

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The internet is your friend...


powder coating

Powder coating is a method of applying coatings to surfaces without using solvents. The coating is applied as a free flowing powder and heated to cause it to flow and adhere to the surface. The powder may be a thermoplastic or a thermoset polymer. It is normally used to create a hard finish on metals. Powder coating is mainly used for coating of metals, such as "white goods", aluminium extrusions and automobiles, although some other materials (like MDF-medium-density fibreboard) also can be coated in this way.

The most common polymers used are polyester, polyester-epoxy(known as hybrid), fusion-bonded epoxy and acrylics.

Production: 1) Mixing the polymer granules with pigments and other powder ingredients in a mixer 2) Heat the mixture in an extruder. 3) The extruded mixture is rolled flat, cooled and broken into small chips 4) The chips are milled to make a fine powder

The most common way of applying the powder coating is to spray the powder using an electrostatic gun. The gun imparts an electric charge on the powder, which is then sprayed to the object which is grounded. The object is then heated, and the powder melts to form a hard coating.

 

wow. some process... since that wont be something im going to do myself. Any recommendations on places that do that? Paint shops usually? I duno.... lol im clueless on wheels here.

 

take a look in your phone book for powder coating services...if that fails ask around at some body shops, wheel shops, custom shops, there has to be someone doing it...I had a set of mustang wheels done and it really isnt that big of a process... Cost me $300 for a set...also if you look in the marketplace there is a guy on here that does coating for a real resonable price. thing it was in the sponsorship section under appearance?

wait I found it
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/801850

on a side note
I have a set of chrome si rims that I will trade for yours + $ pm me if interested

 

(214) 770 7284 now knet i dont know any thing about these people i just saw there add about 4 months ago in hatchie

 

sorry i got your name rong im eating pizza so deal with it

 

might look someplace online... when i get the extra cash

 

ya but if you go on line try and stay close casue shiping on rims 2 ways would be a bitch! and probaly cost more than the powder coating

 

id say white or gunmetal for your car cause its black