so i bought some GEEE ESS AHHH BRAAADES from a korean guy the other day for 200 bucks his son was a ricer and he crashed his integra (ruined the primer body kit lol) the tires are 205 60 15 HUUGGGEE and im obviously gonna rub with the skunk2 springs so im swapping the tires from my sport wheels heress what they looked like when i bought them ..




so after about 5 coats of air craft stripper, home depot stripper, pressure washing and 6 different sandpaper grits including wetsanding and 7 hours in the hot sun ...im thinking about painting them .. im so close to finishing the polish but 2 of the wheels got some curbage i couldnt fix so heres what im thinking of doing...



what do u think ?

 

i think the black can pull it off... something new because ive never seen red blades and the H black to tell you the truth that would be nice.... cant wait until its dont

 

theres really only one way in my opinion to rock gsr blades.

SUper Polished.

not a huge fan of painted blades...takes the whole integrity of the wheel away i suppose you can say. heh


well.....the red wouldnt look bad i guess. but im a bit a biased since i rock blades and can only see them polished.

 

super polished blades ftw.

 

and if you only paint the blades...itll look like 13 inch wheels man.

 

Super Polished is the only way to go with blades IMO.
Painted Blades, are kinda Ehhhhh to me.

 

leave the lip out if u go that route.... lip = make wheels look smaller

 

nice blades. everyone has polished blades... they looks good, but they're common. it would be cool paint them. whatever looks good to you, man. post pics when you're done.

 

yea, I'd say they'd look perty nice with black

 

super polished. it will look 100% better i think. mine came black too. i used duplicolor striper and some flitz polish and i was set to go.

 

polished baldes are ftmfw! your car is gunna look like mine used to :P ill post up pics if your wanna see. but really, in miami, blades are "the shit" so ive seen them painted a million different colors, and the only way to rock them is unpainted.

 

The problem is the blades look like ass under the paint.
I dont really know what you can do.

Paint the tear drops black and the faces red. Wooo, thats a lot of painting and masking.

 

but see thats my dilemma i see so many polished blades im not sure i wanna be siimiillaaarr .. even though its a fairly common wheel i want to stand apart from everyone else.. like similarly unsimilar lol

 

my opinion are blades are sooo common.. dont really care for them much. i've only seen polished ones so if you wanna be similiar yet unsimiliar go for painting them..

 

polish the face of the blades, but the inside and sides black!!!

I might do this... should be picking up a set tomoorrow or thurs! :-)

 

super polish, like everyone else said
they look amazing like that

 

damn.. ive been reading up on polishing though.. its a LOT of sanding!!

 

ALOT i gave up lol the cost of materials and time it needs you can buy a new set of aftermarket wheels.. im just gonna go time attack theme on them

 

maybe black with red lip... (time attack right?)

I was thinking of polishing the rims too.. but hell.. might as well just cough up some $$ and get new ones..

 

yep black with red lip like i did my HX's back in the day.. i got the wheels down to bare metal starting 150 grit then 220 320 450 wet sanded 600 800 with no mouse or palm sander just straight up raw sandpaper in hand and even after i polished them up they didnt look right.. they looked polished but not as polished as i would like them to be.. so i said fcuk it .. i painted the whole wheel red .. taped up the lips and tommorow ima lay the black on.. its good to go polished when u know somebody with a shop where the can do it for free... sitting in this hot florida sun for 4 hours sanding down one wheel is not cool..