Polished IROCs with black background
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Polished IROCs with black background
Me and buddy did these the other day
wondering what the thoughts were
wondering what the thoughts were
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
They look immaculate! But the bigger question is how are you going to KEEP them that way.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
Its going on a maroon camaro ill take pics tomorrow haha, it wasnt even that hard to do, about an hour a wheel
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
I redid my old irocz's and went with a dark gunmetal metallic paint color for the background. I then did a another set for my drag rims and used black paint on the background. On my black car I did not like the look of the black painted version. On a red car it probably will be ok, but for some reason the dark gunmetal gray looked better. Factory was a darker silver color so kept it along the same lines.
Really not hard to do this... paint stripper/clear coat remover like Aircraft Grade stripper. Cover it all, let it eat the old paint/clearcoat off, use a powerwasher and wool wire pads to get all the old stuff off. Then you can wetsand the metal spokes with superfine grade sandpaper, then polish it with a metal polish. Turns out great.
Dont even have to wetsand if you dont want. The metal on the spokes is already machined pretty nicely and will polish out pretty nice as is.
Really not hard to do this... paint stripper/clear coat remover like Aircraft Grade stripper. Cover it all, let it eat the old paint/clearcoat off, use a powerwasher and wool wire pads to get all the old stuff off. Then you can wetsand the metal spokes with superfine grade sandpaper, then polish it with a metal polish. Turns out great.
Dont even have to wetsand if you dont want. The metal on the spokes is already machined pretty nicely and will polish out pretty nice as is.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
yea me and my buddy did one so far a week ago haha, but we started with 80 grit and slowly worked our way up to 1000 grit and then metal polish. It looks like a mirror in person. I don't think you could see a machine line if you had a magnifying glass lol. Yea i thought the gray would look sick, but the black makes it pop soo much lol
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I think with the red car it will work great...it just didnt do anything for me with a black car. i thought it would look good but it just didnt do it for me. I thought the gunmetal colors would look bad but they turned out great on the black car.
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of course the rim we did was the one facing the wall so i cant really give ya pics but we started the second one tonight.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
looks good. i did the same with a set of 85-87 iroc rims thats on the convertible. the other day i saw a white iroc with the backround painted white. they looked good as well.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
..My only beef with the replica's are that they don't have any striping, to tone down that shine. This looks good.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
Thats exactly why we did these this way you need another color inn there to break up the color, its like painting a motor all one color, i hate it when people do that lol
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
I found a set of these the other day for 300.00 I really contemplated on them. They look identical and the tires still had about 15k left on them.
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Re: Polished IROCs with black background
The wheels are mine it was kinda a bordem idea come to life. i tryied to get a good pic but where the car is stored kinda bad lighting.
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