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How are you guying painting the lips around your wheel? I've thought of a few ways to do it, but I'm also going to be painting the whole wheel at the same time, so I'm not sure what the best and easiest approach will be.

Thanks

How I did it. When you mask off the tire, (or if you don't have a tire, w/e) mask off the lip of the wheel. Paint inside of wheel. Wait a day or two for dryage. Now, mask inside of wheel, paint lip. It's a PITA, but it worked.

It's a major PITA as Anthony said... When we did Dan's plum crazy, the tires were mounted which made it even more fun. We just stuck tape between the tire and lip but I know some people use flash cards. To mask the actual wheel off we bought some 3M fine line plastic tape since it will allow you to follow the curve of the wheel and then from there masked the wheel face with a newspaper and taped up to the fine line tape making sure not to go over it. Very tedious!

Yea, alot of work. Maybe I'll do it if I'm bored. If not it's gonna be one solid color. Thats the way I planned on doing it, but was thinking there had to be an easier way.

If you find one, let me know lol. The best way I can think of isn't even practical and you'd have to be DAMN good. mount the wheel on a wheel balancer, and take a pinstriping brush loaded with your color of choice to it carefully as it spins.

the easiest way is just get out there and do it, jesus lazy mofos these days

Lol I'm going to, have to get it on the road first

yeah all the taping and retaping sucks but its worth it

What colors are you painting them? Just curious.

Are you going bronze like you mentioned?

sidepipe87 wrote:It's a major PITA as Anthony said... When we did Dan's plum crazy, the tires were mounted which made it even more fun. We just stuck tape between the tire and lip but I know some people use flash cards. To mask the actual wheel off we bought some 3M fine line plastic tape since it will allow you to follow the curve of the wheel and then from there masked the wheel face with a newspaper and taped up to the fine line tape making sure not to go over it. Very tedious!

this.

and its not fun doing it again like im doing now...and i will be doing pin-striping two more times (two dif sets of wheels) before carlisle lol

all i can say is make sure you dont need new tires...cause the lip WILL get messed up unless the tire shop actually cares

Well it's on the 1gn. So it's not like omg don't mess up my rims. It's more like I'm gonna be bored and I want to change up the ugly half red half black.

The wheels are going to be all bronze with a black lip since the hood is black, i like black, and I have lots of black paint.

You can make it a lil bit eaiser by buy the vinly stripe...

It was pretty easy putting them on..
(Old set of Srt's)


Got them from houseofgrafx.com. There one of our vendors here..

Pinstripes FTW, much easier

Does it stay on good Crystal? Like does it hold up to washing and everything?

LilSparkPlug wrote:Pinstripes FTW, much easier

Truth. I did this, holding up thru pouring rain/carwashes/thugs/gangsters. The works.

Yea mine held up very good with all conditions..

Get and Install them.. You'll love it..

yeah +1 for the pin-striping.

painting the lip would be a joke.

Here, we have stores called Hobbytown, and they have these paint pens made by testors, they come in most major colors. The width is about 1/4" I used them, and it looks OK. the pin striping looks better tho....