Csx Factory Rims

[camerondownunder88]

Hi,

Just got a set for my car wanting to clean them up make them nice.

 

Just wondering what other people have done to there csx rims to spruce them up eg paint wise or polish or anything looking for pictures for ideas.

 

Cheers

Cameron

[ian_ae82_white_rolla =D]

my rims arnt original csx rim... my car isnt even a csx its a seca but i got honda civic 13s on it with the middle painted black and the lip polished... i think it would look just as good with csx rims, heres a pic :

 

 

they r a bit dirty :y:, i wish they were dished lol :)

Edited May 21, 2008 by ian_ae82_white_rolla =D

[love ke70]

soda blasting may be the bet, not sure if its rough enough to strip the shit off, but sand blasting would be too harsh.

then just a good polish and a protective coat.

 

if not, medicine man painted his. looked very good, but he did it properly.

most people do it out of a rattle can and in 6 months its f@$ked and looks worse than it started and is just harder to get back to a nice standard

[camerondownunder88]

Kinda been a bit slow in doing this but here goes.

 

Got a few CSX rims finally and first step I needed to badly clean them up. Pics below of how they looked:

 

The above wheel was an average one. I got 3 that night. One was average, bad, then a ok one.

 

So What I did is decided to stick with the original color lay out on them. First I glass bead blasted them and then painted a yellow ring on it where the red would of normally gone. Pic Below is the result:

Notice in a few spots flecs of original Toyota paint. Hard stuff to move. But pick it off with a knife and it cracks off in chunks.

 

Then I proceded to paint inbetween the spokes gloss black. This was to make the shape of the spokes more vibrant. After a few coats of black as the cast ally made the paint look thin and it kinda soaked in. I coated the rims with 7 coats of clear.

 

Pics of final product to come.

 

Cheers

Cameron

Edited August 10, 2008 by camerondownunder88

[love ke70]

woot

looking decent :dance:

[dashills]

are they ke70' or xt130 they are the same style but i think 70's are 13's and 130's are14's any way they are lookin the s#^t

[Xany]

cam, these are a set i still have in on ome of my cars out the back. They were paint stripped to get the coating off and then highly buffed and polished. Took about 6 hours to do all 4 rims if i remember lol

 

Edited August 12, 2008 by Xany

[love ke70]

sensational simon!

[camerondownunder88]

Thanks for the comments guys.

 

And Simon 6 hours you are god. I started dong what I was doing sl matt glass bead spokes, black spaces, yellow ring...Then I started a polished outer rim on one PORN man were hot I got half a wheel done in about 1hr. Got the shits..LOL as I doa lot of polishing and lapping at work so on the weekend felt like I was working to much..LOL Just had Jagermeister with me. I started at 80 grit then 180 then 320 then 800 then 1200 hen a buff. Just don't have patience or time. BUT MAN were they HOT. So I really really like your blue rims.

 

But how did you polish your rims? What grits type of buff wheel hand or like a dremmel etc?

 

But I noticed if you don't blast the rims and pick the paint off by hand the rims have a polished machine surface from making them so then a quick wipe over and there all ready polished. So if your keen I recon paint stripper would be better then blasting. Might try that on a spare one I will have.

 

 

Also wanna polish my outer part of the rims Xany??LOL

 

But got a pic of the rim one finished with the black on my KE30 other day. I LIKE..;) Will do job. Half broke my camera so pic below is dodgey BUT you get the idea. Looks MUCH MUCH better in person.

 

[camerondownunder88]

More pics:

[camerondownunder88]

Also should add while doing rim swap and checking wheel bearings etc. My homing pigeon came and followed me around and pooped on the car..LOL He is called Mr Biggles worth ;) He jumps on you pecks all your spanners is a great help while working on the car.

 

 

[JiP]

Hmmm.... **takes notes**

 

Doing great with the rims man. And Xany, loving yours. Hoping I should have my set looking that good for my KE50.