I was thinking of changing my grey painted iroc wheels to black. Im talking about the indent part not the polished parts. Anyone have pics of there iroc wheels painted any other colors then sliver or gold????

 

Kat

 

I'll try to search for pics of mine on here, brb

 

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here ya go

 

Yep i was right i think it will look better....what do you guys think???
Im ganna do it for sure!!
Thaxz gyz!

 

i like the color they come better

 

black will look great


they came in black on some cars from the factory also

 

not the iroc wheels from my knowlegde, but the RS ones yeah.

 

Exactly. 16" IROC-Z spec wheels 85-90 ONLY came in either silver or gold. NO other colors were offered from GM.

 

thanks for explaning that, i thaught that there was a black or dark gray also, my bad

 

N/P bro, back when I drove my car daily they used to look black!

 

Well, I'm partial to gold, but I prefer silver over black. Just my opinion...black looks good too.

 

Here is the process I used on my '87 IROC wheels:

https://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/sho...hreadid=194495

 

Hey jcurrieirocz i say leave them the way they are in the above picture! I like the look w/ the grey inserts!

 

Yep cool looks like just what im ganna do.....
2 winters ago i polished and wetsanded the shinny part of the wheels so now the paint just doenst hold its own anymore. Yah yesterday i bought my supplies....I got a can of black paint and a can of clear coat some good non bleeding tape and some wider stuff too. I dont think ill really need primer unless i was striping them down to bare metal...all ill do is sand the old surface well. I mean if i like the grey i can always go back sometime but I wish some guy could hit me so i could get a hole new paint job then id switch to black w/gold rims and stripes. But i love my color now its got crazy pearl in it so. I think the grey is nice i just wanna change i guess.

Dante you say your paint is rough like,,wet sand it with say 800-1000...making sure you dont go thru the paint then give it a few coats of clear...making sure its eather for emamel or non-enamel surfaces (whatever you need to use)
It will make them shine and look flawless and make them easyer to clean. I will never leave just bare paint on wheels anymore it dont last.

 

i am in the process of painting them right now.

A word to the wise for anyone else trying wheels if you or anyone ever used teflon/silicon protectant on your tires your garanteed that thinner or acetone will not get it off your wheels and your paint will fisheye like mine did at 1st...i got some stuff of my buddy that removes it but i dont know the name and its supposetly expecive and he got it from a autobody shop.

The black wheels are coming along good i just fifnshed putting the clear on. ill have pics tomorow after the tape comes off.
speaking of tape it takes a while to tape em off, alot longer then i thought.

 

My 89 IROC came with the 16" IROC wheels with the gold inserts. I would get you a pic but the clear coat is comming off and they look crummy. My other set of 16" IROC wheels have the silver insets and they look much better. Bought them from the forum member HybridZ for $400 w/o tires. I plan to rework these gold inset wheels, but not sure if I want to paint them. Has anyone ever seen a fully polished IROC wheel? I might give it a try.

 

I'm finally painting mine also, ones drying right now as a matter of fact. Taping them off does take a while, especially around the lug nut holes, my fingers and a razor blade barely fit, lol. I'll get some pics.

Also, I think the Cali. IROCS got black inserts, right?

 

pics are in guys whoo hoo
here's my rims....



CrazyHawaiian- about the fully polished wheel,,i dont know of a iroc rim yet but this guy here has done a Z28 wheel and it looks awsome!!!!!
http://members.cardomain.com/tunedport335
(Hes on here everynow and then not sure if thats his exact id name too but its close to that anyhow). I was thinking of polishing all mine too but it would of took alot of time if i didnt have the right tools as under the painted surface is alot rougher and would take long to polish.

 

I had my rims refinished in a charcoal grey metallic .

 

CrazyHawaiian


what rims are those on your 3rdgen?

i like em

Deepdish:rockon:

 

Jcurrie, those are looking pretty good. But you should have taken the wheel weights off when you polished. Then just had them rebalanced, with the weights put back on the inside, it makes them look a little cleaner.

 

Here ya go. Those tires make the rim look raggly. Good thing I get new fronts tomorrow, DR's should be here Mon. woo-hoo.

I also need to hit the polished parts with some Mothers this weekend. Then they will be good to go.

 

Oh i know,,,it would look better.....but i think a few of them i polished too they look ok, but i rather have em on there cause you cant fully properly balance a wheel without them on both sides, even by just useing the setting that lets you only put wieghts on one side on the balancer. Ive been told this anyhow i dont know the reason behind it. My uncle ownes a frontend alingment shop and this is what they say there so. The wieghts dont bother me much but i hear you can get some of thoes stick on ones i hear they are better then using them only on the inside.

One thing i know is this is the 1st car i owned that didnt shimmy or shake even a little on the highway,,,so im not ganna take a chance messing with that. And like i said they dont bother me that much.

 

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Rims look good guys......Zedder 1990...Do you have any more pics of your rims? I like the color!

Mine are the factory color.

 

ok guys got pics of my rims up mounted on my car..........

here they are...
Before:


After:

 

Looks much better- you convinced me to do mine now. My wife would kill ya

 

haha sorry to hear haha she dont like you working on your car so much or something?? Tell her its kind of like eye shadow and eye liner............but for your car!

 

what are the different years or such between the iroc wheels. Some have 2 small stripes and some have one big black stripe.

 

85-87 have the single stripe, 88-90 have the double stripes with the roundish center. The wheel configuration is the same, save for the 15" version that was standard on 89-90. The 88' 15" iroc wheel was the earlier Z28 wheel, also known as the 89-92 (91/92 V6) RS wheel.

 

LOL, she's a little cagey about me spending so much time with the other lady in my life I spend too much time buffing my tips

 

You'll go blind, Felix

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by StngKlr
[B]Here ya go. Those tires make the rim look raggly. Good thing I get new fronts tomorrow, DR's should be here Mon. woo-hoo.

go to any parts store or wallmart ect. and buy black magic or wet n black or something that you spray on your tires to make them look brand new. it usualy lasts for a week unless you drive in a lot of dust or rain. Some of them can turn your wheels brown if they get really dirty but there is at least one brand that won't do that.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by camaro05
[B]yah i think even if he shined them up theyd look sad anyhow they look like a 205/60/16...kinda like the ones that were on my iroc when i bought it they make the car look cr@py...iroc wheels got to have atleast 245/50/16s on em to look good.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by camaro05
[B]Yeah those were some cheap used ones I put on a while back, but the car is at the tire shop right now getting new fronts and a set of BFG DR's being put on the back. I'll get some more pics in a few days, and then in a couple of weeks maybe some pics. of some new paint. Maybe just maybe.