Painting wheel lip

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:58 pm

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

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:10 am

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.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:09 am

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!

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:15 am

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.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:20 am

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.

theTeejmiester · Post by **theTeejmiester** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:37 pm

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

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 4:04 pm

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

DOSneons · Post by **DOSneons** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:15 pm

yeah all the taping and retaping sucks but its worth it

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:36 am

What colors are you painting them? Just curious.

Are you going bronze like you mentioned?

superdan · Post by **superdan** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 1:51 am

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

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:11 pm

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.

z3roneo · Post by **z3roneo** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:52 am

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..

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun May 02, 2010 10:58 am

Pinstripes FTW, much easier

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Sun May 02, 2010 3:35 pm

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

neonslg09 · Post by **neonslg09** » Sun May 02, 2010 3:49 pm

LilSparkPlug wrote:Pinstripes FTW, much easier

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

z3roneo · Post by **z3roneo** » Sun May 02, 2010 9:33 pm

Yea mine held up very good with all conditions..

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

flhmfd · Post by **flhmfd** » Mon May 03, 2010 11:51 pm

yeah +1 for the pin-striping.

painting the lip would be a joke.

NEON PARABOLA · Post by **NEON PARABOLA** » Mon May 10, 2010 1:49 pm

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....