Well, I recently picked up some 13x5.5 CF-48's for a steal of a price ($90 and a two-hour drive). They were disgusting. They had about four different colors of paint on them, the top coat being some cheap gold spraypaint. One of the layers appeared to be white latex paint, yes, I **** you not, house paint. It took one can of aircraft stripper per wheel to get all the crap off the insides and faces.

Well, left with some stained, partially corroded wheels, I decided they needed some love for once in their life. I wanted to go with a high-gloss texture black, and so I went about it.

Two coats Krylon Rust Tough Enamel (primer)
Two coats Duplicolor Hi-Temp Engine Enamel (gloss black) on the insides
Four coats Plastikote Classic Lacquer (gloss black) on the faces
Three coats Duplicolor High Performance Wheel Coating (clear) on the faces

Partially Stripped:






Primed:




Insides painted:


First coat:




Third coat:


Clearcoated:




They'll be getting brand new tires within the week, some Yokohama AVID T4's (185/60/13) .... all-weather goodness.

 

cleannnn nice job bringing them back

 

Hey man I just checked out your thread great work...BTW did you order or get tires yet?
I have a set of Yokohama's 13" only used for like 200 miles let me know if u interested

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MR.RED’89 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hey man I just checked out your thread great work...BTW did you order or get tires yet?
I have a set of Yokohama's 13" only used for like 200 miles let me know if u interested
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Yeah, I already ordered them. Had a coupon leftover for Tirerack, got a very nice deal on them.

 

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Yeah, now the tricky part is finding someone who

A) Has the Kanji Badges
B) Has the Centercaps
C) Won't charge me a kidney for them.

I don't even know if I'll be able to find the aero discs .... not sure they made the 13's in black .... I know they made the 14's and 15's in the black/gold ....

 

nice work man, good luck getting all that other stuff

old school btw, what car are these going on?

 

they remind me of a computer circuit board, i would have recreated it :D

 

cleannn

 

rejunvented nice

 

nice resto

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by stoosy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice work man, good luck getting all that other stuff

old school btw, what car are these going on?</TD></TR></TABLE>
They're going on this car:

 

90 ****** bucks!?

goddamn, dude had NO idea what he had...

 

so you stripped them with aircraft stripper and went straight to prime?

no sanding?

they look ok, never really liked these on any car but a crx

good luck

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by UCLA.lion &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">so you stripped them with aircraft stripper and went straight to prime?

no sanding?

they look ok, never really liked these on any car but a crx

good luck </TD></TR></TABLE>

I do not have the patience, time, or money to sand those wheels down ..... it'd take me hours upon hours to refinish every little fin, nook, and cranny.

 

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lol i just thought all of ht's finest were **** with details

understood.

find any caps for these ?

 

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lol i just thought all of ht's finest were **** with details

understood.

find any caps for these ?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm tryin' hard .... got some emails out to some JDM wheel importers and some WTB adds ..... no leads yet.

And as for being ****, I usually am, but I wanted to refinish these in time for a meet. I'm later going to strip them again, hot tank, acid bath .... and then, depending on how they look, I'll either polish the lip and microclear the whole wheel, or powedercoat them 90% gloss black.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Eran &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I'm tryin' hard .... got some emails out to some JDM wheel importers and some WTB adds ..... no leads yet.

And as for being ****, I usually am, but I wanted to refinish these in time for a meet. I'm later going to strip them again, hot tank, acid bath .... and then, depending on how they look, I'll either polish the lip and microclear the whole wheel, or powedercoat them 90% gloss black.</TD></TR></TABLE>

i think fully polished would look best, baller status.

 

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i think fully polished would look best, baller status.

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It's all about how nice the metal is underneath. I noticed some minor corrosion on some of the fins, and I don't know if it's just the "steel" coating on the face, or if it's down to the bare metal. An acid bath will tell all.

If it does turn out to be the face, I'll polish the lip and powdercoat the faces. The lips were in really nice condition, very bright metal.

 

Lookin pretty clean, but 13s on a 96+?

 

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I'm ok with it. They'll actually only be 10mm thinner than my 15's .... so handling won't suffer greatly, and it'll be nice to have a set of wheels with some all-weather tires on. I've got my meshies with summer sport tires, my crx si wheels with studless snow, and now I'll have my mugen's with all-seasons.

It's all about being comfortable in your own skin

 

i got some centercaps if you're interested

 

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PM'ed

 

Looks good.

Did you get these from OR by chance? This reminds me of my MR5s i just sold that i refinished as well. Good tire choice for PNW weather

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Thurman Merman &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Looks good.

Did you get these from OR by chance? This reminds me of my MR5s i just sold that i refinished as well. Good tire choice for PNW weather </TD></TR></TABLE>

Vancouver, actually.

And thanks for the vote of confidence on the tires.

 

Hahaha those are my ******* old wheels! one painted gold (for ***** and giggles) and the rest painted black. the original owner didn't know what they were so he had them spray painted flat black. BUT the latex paint was actually the orginal color of the wheels, if you search hard enough you can find pics of white CF-48's. Haha i actually sold them to some kid for $120. But good luck so funny....all the wheels ive been through...