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Red Bull's Latest Mod... Wheels Painted Black - PICTURES

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Here is the latest project for Red Bull. After searching a long time for a set of wheels I couldn't find anything I liked more than the Factory JCW ones that came with the car. So I decided to prep and paint them black. Here are some pictures of the process.

After cleaning the wheels and removing the wheel weights its prep time. You can use a grey ULTRA Fine scuff pad or wet/dry 1000 sand paper. The scuff pad works great on these wheels because of the small spaces you have th get into. If your going to do these plan on a spending the day on them.



I first use my small spray gun to get into the tight spaces





Here is one wheel with base coat only, no clear. You have to build a fixture when your painting to be able to stand the wheel upright.



Here is the wheel after 4 coats of clear coat and ready for mounting Friday morning.


1. Material used and steps
2. Simple Green
3. Grey Ultra Fine scuff pad- You must get every surface or the paint will not bond.
4. Prep solvent the entire wheel and let dry. We use PPG DT320
5. Spray Base coat (3) good coats PPG Deltron 2000
6. You can spray (2) coats of clear but I like to lay them on at least (4) PPG Deltron 3000 mid temp.
 
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Looks great
 
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niiice...now pics with em on the car
 
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niiice...now pics with em on the car
 
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awesome dude! can you do mine when i get it. we will need pics when you get the time . sweet job .
 
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that looks amazing. nice work
 
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Great job! I'd love a set of those in white.
 
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Not a fan of black wheels, myself, but that does look like a good paint job.
 
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Likey...
 
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Looking good! I wanna seen them bad boys on the car! Hurry damnit!
 
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Looking good! I wanna seen them bad boys on the car! Hurry damnit!
Should have them On Friday....we are going to do some new photo's and post them.
 
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Not a fan of black wheels, myself, but that does look like a good paint job.

^ That.
 
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Very Sharp looking wheels Red Bull ...
I would love to do the same thing to mine but I would have to start by grinding down some of the nicks and scratches.
Some how I don't think mine would turn out as good as yours.

 
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I'm likin those wheels .............what type of paint did you use?
not rattle can I'm sure.
 
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Originally Posted by KCinBR
I'm likin those wheels .............what type of paint did you use?
not rattle can I'm sure.
Thanks....you can see all the material I used at the end of the post...I used PPG Deltron 2000....No rattle cans used here...
 
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Originally Posted by ENGINE 58
awesome dude! can you do mine when i get it. we will need pics when you get the time . sweet job .

Hello
Yes I can do yours for you...no problem.
 
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Amazing job mate. One question though. How'd you manage to get all that paint all over your arms before you were even done sanding?
 
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Old 01-31-2009, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by ElNino
Amazing job mate. One question though. How'd you manage to get all that paint all over your arms before you were even done sanding?
Thats not paint...thats one of my hairy shop guys
 
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