19" Stock Rays wheels powdercoat project
 

I wanted to wait until I had the project finished to post this, but forum members were chomping at the bit to see what they would look like. I will continue to add pictures to this thread as I get them installed and get the center caps finished.

Car before:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...utt/toolow.jpg

Wheels after stripping, sandblasting and one coat of gloss black powdercoat:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...t/IMG_0355.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...t/IMG_0356.jpg
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...t/IMG_0357.jpg


Wheels after pinstriping (shot from iPhone):
http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k3...nutt/photo.jpg


I'll get better pictures with a real camera to show detail, but the pinstripe has a 2mm margin of black around all the edges before the contour changes. So, on the spoke face, there is a tiny rim of black around the orange before the edge of the flat part of the spoke falls off. Same with the lip of the wheel; tiny black stripe before the edge of the wheel. That detail makes it look extra sharp. The orange is a mix of VHT (very high temp) orange and a little yellow. It's more orange than the persimmon leather, but it looks good up against it. Hemi orange and safety orange clashed with the darker persimmon. We also tried this variation with a 5 mm stripe going down the high part of each spoke down to the hub, but the asymmetry of the wheel made it look unbalanced and we wiped it down before the paint dried.


The wheels are currently at the powdercoat shop for a clear coat. They're supposed to be finished this evening and I'll post pictures when they are done, then when I get the 305 width RE11's mounted up.

The cost was $435 (incl tax) at the powdercoater for stripping, sandblasting, powdercoating and clear coating. The cost at the pinstriper was $70 for all 4 wheels!


Cheers!

-Phim

Honestly? I'm not a HUGE fan of the pinstriping job, but I'm much more of a minimalist. I think the most I'd do is the stripe around the rim. But hey, if that's your thing, all the power to you :tup: They're definitely unique!

that's actually gonna look cool once on the Z....next, paint the headlight housing black with pin stripe colour matched projector shrouds to match the rims!!


for some reason Knight Rider came in my head looking at ur rims

Looking good, hope you get them on the car soon.

LOL!

Hopefully this will turn out still somewhat subdued. I am totally trying to keep it so it doens't look ricey. I originally wanted to machine the orange part so it was just black/machined aluminum, but no one in town had a 22" CNC machine and the ones that did in LA wanted 6 hours of labor for the cad/cam setup time because of the compound curve on the lip of the rim. Total machining cost would have been $600ish + the $400 for powdercoat. At that price, I might as well get aftermarket wheels and sell the stockers. I then thought about doing pinstripe, but just held off, fearing it would be "too much."

Then, MW Design came out with their "Darth Maul" M3 and it inspired me to move forward with the pinstripe:

http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-20...e-1280x960.jpg

After seeing this, I thought..... Hmm... Orange accents would look good on the wheels, headlight projector shrouds, wheel center caps,front/rear Nissan badges, air intake areas in front, licence plate recess in back....

On the wheel centers and Nissan badges, I'm going to gloss black the chrome part and go orange on the lettering.

Just takes time to get this all together....

^ be sure to post pics of the final thing and prove me wrong :D

Wow way too loud for my taste. Very unique though.

machining the parts you painted would look awesome...

but it's either you do that or keep the accent colour and paint the projector shrouds the same colour and do the badges also...i would just paint the badges black (colour match) and accent colour the Nissan writing....and of course....tint the tails :tup:

Very loud, yes. And no offense taken. This car only comes out at night and on the weekends. It's mostly only seen in the dark, so black on black is really underwhelming.

I also want some "bling" because this is my going on dates and out to clubs car. I would be embarassed to bring it to work, LOL!

Looks really good:tup: did you put your car on stands while they got done or you got a spare set of wheels?

Bought two jackstand for $30. One corner is on the spare. One corner is on a floor jack I already owned.

first thing that would come to my mind if i see your car is darth maul :D
cant wait to get mine done
sux the place u went to is in bakersfield :( i would have gone to them too

^^ why didnt you??

coz its a 2 hour drive lol

Pretty cool. I'm doing the same thing just with a red lip, nothing else. Looking around my area for a good shop to do the powder coating and pin striping.