NSX DIY TRACK RIMS!
Hey… for next to nothing U can paint your NSX rims in a professional manner.
You will need: Time, a lame “mouse” sander by black and decker $19.00, lots of sandpaper and varying grits. 50-300, one really nice apartment bathroom with a ventilation fan to sand your rims down in, spray can primer of your choice, a respirator not a lame mask (like I used), gloves to protect your hands, ear plugs if U wanna protect your ears.
* Dupli-color High Performance Wheel Paint (This stuff Kicks butt!)
1. Find oem rims that have been raped. Better if tires have tread. Pick them up cheap.
2. Clean oem rims really well with soap and water.
3. Sand imperfection out of rims.
4. Be compulsive and sand the entire rim down to the bare aluminum for weight savings.
5. Clean rims really well with soap and water.
6. Dry rims really well. Let rims dry for 24 hours or so?
7. Tape off tires with tape. Hope the previous owner did not use tire shine crap as this makes it difficult. I found a two step process to work best. Step 1: Slide tape under lip of wheel inbetween lip of wheel and tire. Step 2: grab garbage bags and tape them to the tape u just applied to the tire. Wrap bags around tire and tape them to the back side of wheel where you also ran masking off tape under the rim lip on the tire.
8. Find a nice spot to paint rims. Not too humid and no wind. Proper ventilation helps too.
9. Tape painting area off if necessary.
10. Prime rims front and back. Let rims dry. Use compressed air to blow any dust that settles off the rims. Hit them with a second coat of primer.
11. Let the rims dry really well. Hit them with compressed air in order to remove dust particles. Spray coat number one on the rims. Let tem dry for 2 hours. Hit them with compressed air and hit them with a second coat of paint. Paint the backs first then move to the fronts so you can have a smoothe finish on the front and not have any over spray which can be flatter than the normal coat. Also spray the holees or harder areas and u will notice that the easy areas are already painted. If u paint the easy ares and then go for the holes... you will get too much paint on the rims.
12. Clean black bugers out of your nose as your mask will not get all the dust/paint. Clean paint off of yourself.
13. Take them somewhere and have them balanced. Use tape a weights on the inside of the wheels for cosmetic reasons. Make them be careful and not scratch your fresh rims!
14. Slap your track rims on your NSX (remember to torque them to 80lbs.) and hit the road.
Hey… for next to nothing U can paint your NSX rims in a professional manner.
You will need: Time, a lame “mouse” sander by black and decker $19.00, lots of sandpaper and varying grits. 50-300, one really nice apartment bathroom with a ventilation fan to sand your rims down in, spray can primer of your choice, a respirator not a lame mask (like I used), gloves to protect your hands, ear plugs if U wanna protect your ears.
* Dupli-color High Performance Wheel Paint (This stuff Kicks butt!)
1. Find oem rims that have been raped. Better if tires have tread. Pick them up cheap.
2. Clean oem rims really well with soap and water.
3. Sand imperfection out of rims.
4. Be compulsive and sand the entire rim down to the bare aluminum for weight savings.
5. Clean rims really well with soap and water.
6. Dry rims really well. Let rims dry for 24 hours or so?
7. Tape off tires with tape. Hope the previous owner did not use tire shine crap as this makes it difficult. I found a two step process to work best. Step 1: Slide tape under lip of wheel inbetween lip of wheel and tire. Step 2: grab garbage bags and tape them to the tape u just applied to the tire. Wrap bags around tire and tape them to the back side of wheel where you also ran masking off tape under the rim lip on the tire.
8. Find a nice spot to paint rims. Not too humid and no wind. Proper ventilation helps too.
9. Tape painting area off if necessary.
10. Prime rims front and back. Let rims dry. Use compressed air to blow any dust that settles off the rims. Hit them with a second coat of primer.
11. Let the rims dry really well. Hit them with compressed air in order to remove dust particles. Spray coat number one on the rims. Let tem dry for 2 hours. Hit them with compressed air and hit them with a second coat of paint. Paint the backs first then move to the fronts so you can have a smoothe finish on the front and not have any over spray which can be flatter than the normal coat. Also spray the holees or harder areas and u will notice that the easy areas are already painted. If u paint the easy ares and then go for the holes... you will get too much paint on the rims.
12. Clean black bugers out of your nose as your mask will not get all the dust/paint. Clean paint off of yourself.
13. Take them somewhere and have them balanced. Use tape a weights on the inside of the wheels for cosmetic reasons. Make them be careful and not scratch your fresh rims!
14. Slap your track rims on your NSX (remember to torque them to 80lbs.) and hit the road.
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