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bearcat91
07-08-2011, 07:21 PM
New set of konig imagines and I want to paint them....first question should I do white or black on my tw ep. also if I do white I wanna match the car, where can I get the same paint as my body? Thanks

PatrickJamesYu
07-08-2011, 09:38 PM
New set of konig imagines and I want to paint them....first question should I do white or black on my tw ep. also if I do white I wanna match the car, where can I get the same paint as my body? Thanks
Are you going to do it your self or have it done?
And do you have a paint equip, or do you plan to rattle can it?

bearcat91
07-09-2011, 06:11 AM
I plan on getting them blasted and painting my self....I know people with booths but it'll be my first time with a gun.

PatrickJamesYu
07-09-2011, 04:13 PM
I plan on getting them blasted and painting my self....I know people with booths but it'll be my first time with a gun.

If you're using a gun, you can order TW
or through a paint shop, they can get that color, or do their rendition of the color.

TW luckily isn't terribly hard to do.

Make sure you clear them
It'll help keep them clean, and make them look good.

Oh and I say do white with the white ep.

mitchlikesbikes
07-09-2011, 05:06 PM
i would do black just because i think the contrast would look better and white wheels would probably be a bitch to keep clean. if you color match to TW though they could look ultra bitchin. the biggest thing is they won't look good in any color if done wrong, but it sounds like you're gonna do it legit with the sandblasting and paint gun. just make sure to keep em waxed afterward so the dirt and brake dust is easier to clean off and won't damage the clearcoat.

bearcat91
07-09-2011, 05:53 PM
Sinci its a 2 piece look alike, if I find an easy way to cover all the lil screws I might to white with polished lip. If not the sprayin it all black!

bearcat91
07-09-2011, 06:17 PM
This is them now...can't really see the lil "screws" but get the point

boricua4life
07-09-2011, 06:34 PM
i say paint them bronze:mcool: but then again i would opt out for the black also.

mitchlikesbikes
07-09-2011, 07:17 PM
all black would look titties on those wheels.
not sure how the white would turn out.

PatrickJamesYu
07-09-2011, 07:28 PM
even some of the fake 2 piece look alike wheels, have removable screws
Check, they might be.

bearcat91
07-10-2011, 03:24 AM
even some of the fake 2 piece look alike wheels, have removable screws
Check, they might be.
Really?? Cool ill check it out thanks! Would I put clear over w.e I decide to polish? Or keep it masked off and keep up on polishing?

krod
07-10-2011, 05:23 AM
i would go black,think it would look sick

bearcat91
07-10-2011, 05:37 AM
All black or black with polished lip and screws?

bearcat91
07-19-2011, 08:10 PM
Iv decided to do black with polished lip and Screws. If I sand blast the entire wheel, how hard will it be to bring the lip back to a polish?

mitchlikesbikes
07-19-2011, 08:12 PM
it'll probably be a bitch to polish back up. if you do a couple layers of masking tape over the lip it should keep the sandblaster from ruining the polished finish. not sure what you could do about the screws though

bearcat91
07-19-2011, 08:24 PM
I'm hoping they come out, havnt checked yet. Any ideas on how to polish the lip? They're a lil curbed in spots but not super deep. Thought about sand paper and steping up to a higher grit...maybe to 1000 or something, then a light wet sand and some wetal polish. Looong process

mitchlikesbikes
07-19-2011, 09:26 PM
yeah it is a long process. basically, it's

800 grit
1000 grit
1500 grit
2000 grit
polish
sealant.

bearcat91
07-19-2011, 10:03 PM
Sweet...I plan on masking off and blasting this week or next then polishing lip then paint!!! Working 6 to 7 days a weeks makes it hard to do these things :(

bearcat91
07-28-2011, 05:11 PM
Before photo of some of the curbage....

Maybe not, trying to do this from my phone, not working

bearcat91
07-28-2011, 05:35 PM
Before of curbage. http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Geoffrey_Lowe/IMG_20110727_163913.jpg

After a pneumatic sander, then I fine grit wheel... http://i1236.photobucket.com/albums/ff442/Geoffrey_Lowe/IMG_20110727_163920.jpg

Still not perfect but looks 1000x better

mitchlikesbikes
07-28-2011, 07:16 PM
nice work man. just use an etching primer followed by a filler primer and those should just sand right out by the time you're ready to paint.

bearcat91
07-28-2011, 08:41 PM
nice work man. just use an etching primer followed by a filler primer and those should just sand right out by the time you're ready to paint.
Damn I didn't even think about primer! Got a lil ahead of my self

mitchlikesbikes
07-28-2011, 11:03 PM
haha well you'll probably wanna do at least some filler primer. i don't think the etching primer is totally necessary, cause i didn't use it on mine and i noticed only the paint chips, the primer always stays underneath so like i said the etching primer is recommended but not really necessary.

bearcat91
07-29-2011, 11:52 AM
And I'm assuming filller primer will fill some voids, then sand to smooth out?

mitchlikesbikes
07-30-2011, 05:45 PM
yeah that's basically the idea. but it won't fill anything more than minor imperfections so you'll wanna take care of as much as you can with the heavy duty shit like a grinder and sandpaper.