Sorry SpikeyC! You don't look like me anymore!
 

Painted my dust shield and wheel caps:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...7/fd601db5.jpg

Thanks for the idea on the wheel caps Chris!

I know... :(

I'll take a better one tomorrow. I was kind of in a mad rush when I took this pic. Didn't really notice the shadow till it was too late.

Looks sweet!

looks dandy. what did you use for the logos? tremclad, touch up paint?
did you remove the logo first, if so how, and finally did you consider spraying them with a krylon clearcoat for longer life and less touch ups?

I had considered doing the same thing but i couldn't figure out how to get the cap off and didn't feel like scuffing the rims prying away with a screwdriver at 3 am.

Thanks guys!!

Yeah - i just used good ol tremclad rust paint.. I'm a little worried though cuz i'm not entirely sure that the paint has a good hold on the plastic (seeing as it's for metal), so if it peels off next time i take the high pressure wash to it, i'll get some proper plastic paint and re-do them.

Didn't think about spraying clearcoat on but thats a groovy idea.

To take the caps off - take off your wheel, and push it out from behind. Just pops out - no sweat. I just tapped it out with my tire iron.

The real pain in the ASS was masking off the logos to keep paint from getting on them. That was a one night project right there.

The center caps remove very easily. You remove the rims from the car, and push them out from the inside. If you try to pry them you'll scratch them. They just pop right out if you push them from the backside.

beauty, i'm a do that ish this weekend, aight bla....

ENGLISH!!!

sorry, i got a little over excited. i will take into consideration what i have learned from this topic and undergo this project at later date.

Thats better! :D lol

ok.. i'm not 'hip' to this new lingo.. what the hell does aight bla mean??

I know aight is alright...

ever seen greg the bunny? fox tv show with puppets, eugene levy,seth green and more...?

umm.. no..

then the aight bla is not likley something that will make much sense to you. sorry

p.s if you get a chance you should watch it it's pretty damn funny

If i ever get cable, i'll check it out. For the time being we have peasant-vision and I'll tell ya - i'm not really missing it...

Re: Sorry SpikeyC! You don't look like me anymore!
 

No Problem Jason. Gee, now I can't say I'm the only one. Oh well, I'll just have to find something else to do, yeah, like that's going to be hard :D.

Anyway, here is the link to the tread where I posted how I did my centers.

Painting wheel hubs

IMO that's too colorful. Blue pro 5 with yellow and red.. a lil bit too much for me.. but to each his own i guess.

where do you see red?? other than my strut bar i'm yellow and blue! :cool:

He's probably confusing my red and yellow scheme with yours. Ooops.

Now I am looking at doing my valve cover but I am wavering.

i thought about it, but i just did the lettering and i think i'm happy with that. i think that might be bordering on the side of excess.

Hey Sandman looks good!

oh and i won't copy you this time...
the only other thing that i will ever consider doing to the outside of my car is new rims...
Cam

Hehehe.. i was wondering how long it would take you to post here!! :D

Oops - spelled your name wrong.. my bad! ;)

Hmmm, I think excess would be the valve cover, the heat shield, the fuse box cover, etc. You know, red city. Others have done it but I'll stick to my little bit, plus it is under the hood so not really seen alot. I thought about changing the hoses then I went and lay down and the feeling went away :D.

By the way I am picking up my new shift knob tomorrow so another change.

Still to do, paint rest of front grill, paint valve cover, add stripes, a couple more small zoom zoom stickers. That should be it for awhile and hopefully I'll have it done before Red Deer.

Yeah i have been too busy lately to check the page out...
i seem to go through periods when i am here everyday... and then periods when i don't check it for a week or so....

QUOTE]Originally posted by sandman


Oops - spelled your name wrong.. my bad! ;) [/QUOTE]


Hey what ever.. I never even noticed!!

The centercaps dont look good to me... but nice job on the calipers and dust shield. It adds a halo to the rotor.

thats cool - to each their own..

and halo is the first thing that came to my mind after i did it too! :D

Hey Jason, did you not say you were going to paint the dust shield black so that you really could not see it? Hmm, after seeing mine you must have changed your mind right?

Looks good. I think we are the only ones in Edmonton to do that. Gee, we're almost twins :p .

Separated at birth maybe? ;)

Actually i was talking about the inside part of the rotors.. to make it look like the brake part was floating.. The dust shield I wanted to do yellow from the start, but seeing your red ones cemented the idea! :cool:

oh man I was thinkin about doin that
 

oh man we thought abotu doin that when we painted our calipers the different color, how did ya do the shield?? did ya spraypaint? or brush?? how hard was it to do???

Thanks!

Brushed it on man.. I don't believe in spray paint - kills the environment! ;)

Just masked off the top edge of the rotors so they wouldn't get painted and brushed it on..

make sure you clean it REALLY REALLY good.. It is a dustshield after all.. it's meant to catch dust so it'll be pretty dirty..

No'ones gonna see it ever, but I did the other side too...

sweeeeeet thanks for the tip did ya just hose it and wipe it or clean it with something else as well??

rubbing alcohol and those blue-paper-towel-type shop towels you can get at any automotive kind of place.

I went over it a couple times cuz the dust was REALLY caked and embedded onto the metal..

That'll have to do untill the day where I take my rotors off for whatever reason, and I'll clean it REALLY good and be able to paint the whole thing, instead of just the area you can see..

Okay Jason I did mine but even I was not that crazy to paint the back side and I took off the rotor to spray the shield :p.

okay I don't think I will beable to paint the rotors.. or shield.. I CAN'T PAINT!!!!!!!!!! I tried oh how I tried to use though up and to eve npaint other little things I SUCK!!! I am so hopeless.. oh well back to the drawing board..

Grrr