Alrighty, well this is my first post, so i guess ill introduce myself and my car. My name is Derek and i have a 1985 Z/28"clone" freshly repainted ( bright copper metalic) with a freshly rebuilt motor (350) with a few mods.

I just painted one of my stock rims (15 inch z's) i polished the lip and front of the spokes (not inside the spokes) painted them a dark argent wheel paint, i have new black center caps with a tritone grey Z/28 emblem in it and i repainted the lug nut covers black, im going to paint the area around the lug nuts (the recess in the center, not the spokes) black as well to really show the contrastr from the polished to argent to black. ill actually have a working camera tommorow to snap some pics and so you guys can give me you thoughts and ideas on it.

but what i really want to see is the other pics from the DIY guys and there spin on the stock z wheels, i have the early models i wish i had the later models that were flat but oh well i like them just the same. later guys, thanks

 

welcome to the forum. im surprised noone posted up yet. i wanna see some pics. but i would suggest going with some 85-87 iroc wheels.

 

Here's a picture of one silver and one Graphite. Gives you a good comparison between the darker and lighter colors.

 

sounds awesome! definitely post some pics! I polished the lip and spokes on mine as well. I don't really have any pics on this computer that do them justice. anyways, i went with chrome lugs and I think they look good with the polished edges.

 

yea i painted the lug covers black to show the contrast and match the center cap (which is black with a black emblem and tri-tone silver Z/28. the camera im using i borrowed from my grandfather and its a sony, the programs and chord for the computer are for kodak, so ill have to wait to get the pic up here, sorry guys.

 

hahaha alrighty well i finally got some pics for you guys, hope you enjoy.... maybe ill find good pics of the paint but i dunno

 

Thats the same thing I'm doning to my one set of camaro rims. They look really nice by the way. They should look good on your car with that color.

 

these are my rims....me and xgtharo86x did them they are the stock 91-92 rims with a polished lip











also here are a set of single line IROC'S we re-finished too

 

heres one more on them

 

hahaha yea too bad its a ford color. i put one of my wheels on it and it looks sharp, of course it'll look sharper when all the wheels are done, its gets lowered, and i get the gfx stripes, it'll look 10 times better. id show you guys a pic but none of them do my cars paint any justace hahha

 

Heres a pic of mine:

 

Polished 85-87 IROC's...

 

demon, those look mean! ever thought about painting the center spokes black?

 

id paint the inside of those with the graphite paint color ( the color of mine) it'll give it a contrast, also i think your iroc would look sweet with some silver gfx stripes and hood stripes... then again im partial to the stripes

 

xtharo..............Sharp looking rims. Might try that on my stock 16"

 

I only sanded up to 600 grit before taking the polish to em so they're not crazy shiny, but I thik they look good. I plan on painting the insides of the spokes and the lines black before I put them on the car... but I might not.


You can see how bad my current wheels look. That's as clean as they get, I just washed them...




You can see the spots of red on the groove on the bottom left wheel here, they were pretty stubborn ad the paint stripper never could get em off. Oh well.

 

ya all i did was put coats of aircraft coating remover on..to take the clear coat off then sanded all the corrosion spots with 400 wet grit then 600 on the rest of the rim allong the grooves...then used meguires hot shire rim polish the painted them i did the same to 2tonedmaro89's rims

 

Read these post for the first time this am, got my rims off the car and all done in 4 hours. here are some pics!
Before

After

 

i wanna see pics of the car, the color should look awesome in the sun . get some car pics up .

 

Excuse me 186irocz I am interested in the red Camaro in your garage...LOL...anyway here is one set of my rims...and these
I like the stock rims on our cars...as long as they are clean...

 

The center lines or the entire spokes? Anyone have any pics of my style rim with the spokes painted? I doubt I'll just do the center lines but maybe the spokes if they look good.

 

I actually really like 2tonedmaro89's idea of painting the majority of the wheel and leaving the lip. Im partial to the 91-92 5 spokes cuz they got the biggest lip of all the stock rims. However, I think if they were painted a satin gunmetal instead of gloss black and if the center cap was left off with some chrome lug nuts that would look sick. just my 2 cents.

 

Those look great...........Nice work. How and what did you do

 

Here are some pics of my 82 Indy pace car after I completed the rebuild in 2000.


Decided to paint the rims silver with blue on the spoke only. I think they look much cleaner this way. Used Dupli-color paint. Still look decent 7 years later.

 

What are those center caps off of. I really like them. I might have to get a set and do that temperary till I get my 18's done up like that. Adam :-)

 

My repainted IROCs

 

derockz28 and 85_ZED28,

Guys I love how your wheels look and I'll be doing a make over on mine soon. Can you please detail the process of how you got them looking so good (painting and polishing).

Cheers

 

Hey there Light horse,

When I painted my IROC wheels, the first step was to remove all the paint with aircraft paint remover. Then I sanded the entire rim with 320 grit and followed it with wet 400 grit. The following step is important for a good finish, that is to clean the entire wheel with paint thinner and a cloth towel that does not leave fibers. Since my wheels are multi-color I had a 4 step process of masking to finish the wheel. Part 1 was painting the outer diameter red with 3 light to medium coats. After allowing it to dry, I used a 1/4" 3M plastic masking tape and masked the ring around the wheel. (Note: Make sure you allow enough dry time before masking, or the finish will stick to the tape.) Step 2 was the black around the lug nut area. This is not an easy area to mask, but be patient and use a new razer blade and it works great. Same paint process as step 1. Step 3 was the blue on the spokes, and the last is the silver. After all the paint has dried, carefully remove the masking to reveal the finished product. Optional step would be to lightly sand the areas where the tape & paint met, then a clear coat can be applied to smooth out the entire wheel. I used Dupli-color paint and did not use a primer. In 5+ years they have not flaked. I do need to repaint them due to brake dust stains. I am going to try some rubbing compound first to clean them up. Hope this helps,

 

They're the S10 extreme center caps for the old style ZQ8 wheels. The old S10 ZQ8s are the same wheels as ours.

This is the only picture I can find, and it uses GMC centercaps instead of the bowtie ones... but you get the idea.

 

Frozer,

Are those painted out black?

 

hmmm that looks a lot like my big black truck and a picture of my house....who would have thought

 

TGF '06 And yes they are painted black

 

nice

 

I have the stock 91' rs wheels plasti-dipped black
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Here are the wheels on my iroc. duplicolor bright white and polished the rest.

 

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Hey just wondering did you paint then do the lips or the other way around? kinda give me your process of doing the rims up if you dont mind.

 

 

I refinished these 15" Z28's in orange spray and black brush, chrome center bullets topped with Pontiac arrow logo on a black background and chrome lugs.
They sit on my '89 Firebird which resembles The RUINER from the Grand Theft Auto IV game.