Ive seen pics before of the 16" formula wheels both painted and polished. Im looking for pics of the flat faced formula wheels. I want to see pictures of polished or painted trying to get some ideas. Here are the wheels im talking about.

 

Here's a rim that I did..

 

they are also 85 trans am rims too, i didnt realize that formulas got the flat face i thought they got the angled ones.

 

I want to do this mod to my wheels. How long did it take you to do this? How did you do it?

Did you take off the clear coat and spray the centers and then re-clear? - that's all I can think of to do it.

 

Bill-

First I stripped the clearcoat on the entire wheel using aircraft remover. Then I polished the lip using 80, 180, 220, 320, 400, 600, 1500, rubbing compound, 1500 wet, Mothers aluminum polish. After that I masked the lip off and cleaned the areas to be painted. I sprayed a coat of primer followed by the black. I just used cheap primer and paint, and they still look great. The polishing by far took the longest (1.5-2 hours)- so long that it's discouraged me from doing the rest of the wheels. Someday I'll get bored enough to finish all of them though. I definitely think it would look great!

 

..whoops.

 

How about these...... (nothing you haven't seen before though!)

 

Also if anyone else has pics post up how u did it all.

 

I saw someone with a chromed out set and they were tight

 

Just so nobody gets the wrong impression im not giving up my torque thrust. I sold my factory formula wheels to a friend and wanted to show him how good they could look. My clearcoat is faded and starting to come off so i told him he could polish them are paint them and they would look good.