I already have headlights that are black and I wanted to make the wheels a darker silver. I think a gunmetal would be a nice color to powdercoat beacuse I don't want to change the stock wheel. The above picture is of a stock 18" wheel that I made gunmetal in photoshop. What do you guys think? The look is growing on me but do you think it makes the car look dirty? I am also posting the origional picture below for comparision.

Thanks - Joey Avino


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Here is the origional picture.

Any opinions would be amazing.

Thanks - Joey Avino


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i think it looks awesome with gunmetal stock wheels. i'm very interested in doing it to my g.

i've seen this one silver g at my school (lehigh) with all skyline badges and gunmetal 18's. at first i'm like "aww man, clean your wheels once in awhile dude" then i got closer and i was just amazed to realize that it was powdercoated.

if you can find out some pricing info i just may be interested..

Jeff - Look for me in the black G
2004.5 G35 Coupe
5AT / Black on Black / Premium / Splash / ClearCorners

 

For me it's free because the company my uncle works for manfactures metal products and they have a full paint shop. He can get his friends to do them for me after hours.

Thanks - Joey Avino

 

Brake dust. It's no good if you have to walk up close to realize its not dust and that its been painted.

Why not try a combination with a pseudo polished lip look like this?

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I would prefer that if they could do it. I'll ask IF they will do it for me for free. If I have to pay alot I'm just going to leave them silver.

Thanks - Joey Avino

 

From what I've learned on American Chopper, powder coating is a bitch long process. So I don't know how strong your connections are. You might be better off painting them gun-metal instead? If it looks bad, you could then remove the paint... slowly but surely.

Have you tried the bronze look? Or a darker gun-metal like this:



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My uncle has a paint shop at his office... they professionally do the powder coating there. I don't want them too dark, just a little darker than stock to make my car sleeker. The silver sort of overpowers my headlights and stuff.

Thanks - Joey Avino

 

What about this? Option Three it's called [img]/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/img] If they can do it I will, if they can't I will just get them entirely gunmetal.

Thanks - Joey Avino


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Are you gonna keep the center cap chrome? When do you plan on getting this done? I'd love to check them out before the winter cold hits. I plan on going for the look in my earlier photoshop for my winter setup.

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I will keep the centers chrome and I'm doing them ASAP.

Thanks - Joey Avino

 

i wish i had a connection like that.. [img]/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/img]

let us know how they turn out if you decide to do it

Jeff - Look for me in the black G
2004.5 G35 Coupe
5AT / Black on Black / Premium / Splash / ClearCorners

 

afrOpuff...Your car looks good. What sizes and brand are your wheels. Thanks

 

I think it would look better a littler darker - I had my stock 17's powder coated black and I love them... it ran me about $200.00 for all 4 wheels and it only took 1 day... good luck -

 

So far if you guys want to read what the status of this issue is you can view it in the North East Forum

As of now I wanted to test a color before I actually put it on my car.
Here is the status of my powdercoat. No final decisions have been made at this time.

https://g35driver.com/forums/showfla...&part=all&vc=1

Thanks - Joey Avino