So I go to my local auto Zone and buy 2 cans of wheel paint. and a roll of tape. Total price was about $12.00. And lookie at the results. I spent a nice Sunday afternoon after church sanding the wheels with 1000 grit sandpaper, just to texturize the surface for the paint to stick. Then I had to use black electrical tape to tape off the edge, since the tape I purchased wouldn't curve enough. I pulled each wheel off and also the hubcaps. I taped over the "Ford" cinter area on the hubcaps and used a rasor blade to cut out the cicle. After spending about 2 - 3 hours prepping the wheels I spend about another hour painting. Later that evening, I mounted the wheels and hit the streets. BLING! TOTAL NEW LOOK for a meer $12 bucks and 5 hours of work. The paint has a "matt" finish, giving it a Powder Coat look in my openion. I was looking for a gloss paint, but I'm glad I used this paint and not a gloss. The car is lowered with Eibach Sportlines and I had the car striped a few weeks after I bought it. I am so in love with the way it looks now! I hope you like the pics. -FROG-

 

 

wow, they look great as black outs, good job man...

 

Wow, this is the 1st time I've liked those rims. Awesome job

 

Nice! I've been thinking about doing that with my stock bullit rims.

I hated those rims untill now!!

 

Wow. Looks nice. If you didn't have that exact color of car with those stripes, I think I would have hated the wheels. But in this case,

 

I like the rim now in Black with the chrome lip.

 

That looks nice

 

Wow, Frog. they do look nice. mean drop. are you gonna tint your windows? black and blue. i love it. and yes, i can see how ppl would think they are aftermarket wheels. sweet. great job.

 

FYI these are in if you are interested, Frog:

UPGRADE WHEEL PONIES
http://forums.bradbarnett.net/index....opic=30121&hl=

 

wow...I am impressed. When i first saw the title of this thread...I was a bit worried. But it looks great!

 

Those are cool! Thanks for the link.

Thanks for all the kind words friends!

 

As many others have said, that's the first time I've really like those wheels!

Why is it a regular guy with a can of spray paint can make better looking wheels than all of FoMoCo?

I have to say, those are some VERY crisp pictures too. Nice camera!

 

Thanks man. he he he about the camera, it was the cheepest digital I could find about a year ago. I changed the resolution settings in the camera to 2048x1536 so the pictures where origionally bigger than a typical computer screen (huge pics). Then, when I saved them on my computer, I used microsoft paint to make them smaller and this compresses the pictures to about a 640x480 size and makes them really sharp. The wheel picrues was really blurry though, due to me shaking.... Any hoo, my camera was about $100.00 from Wal-Mart and it's a Samsung Digimax 301. Gotta love digital cams.

 

They look like mule rims now...black paint

 

Rims

You also have the paint handy to fix chips.

 

Way to use your head when you modify your car. Hats off man, I like what you did. I used to HATE those wheels and I honestly would have paid to not have them over the bullitts but your mod has changed my opinion.

 

It takes some real ***** to sand & paint your stock rims not knowing if the results will be OK. I must say... good job! Looks darn good!

 

I must admit...when i first read the post...i was like WTF?..But i think it turned out great. Gives the car sinister racing type look to me. Good job and nice idea!!

 

Nice custom look...very clever!