Superpickel

Haven't posted on my own thread in a while. Just finished painting my rims flat black and installed an Injen CAI about a month ago. Here are a couple of pics of how the rims turned out...

MightyP

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^ Very nice! Though I'm moderately distracted by the rust on the rotors. (I know, you just washed it and haven't driven it yet...) Though it really does look good. Hopefully I'll have time to do mine this weekend.

And glad to have you posting on your build thread again!!!

Superpickel

THe rust accumulates when you don't drive much... I've had my car since October and have around 3500 miles on it... have a company truck for work so anytime the wife wants something from town I volunteer to go get it so I can ride. Rust is there because of the horrible tornadic weather we had this week. At least it wasn't as bad here as it was in AL

greenbean24

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The flat black looks awesome!

I wondered if anyone would do black/black and you pulled that ish' off, nice.

Superpickel

Yeah, I want a set of black Enkei EDR9s, but I'm a broke fool. Work has been kind of slow, so I figured painting stocks would be my best option for now.

KidJustin

wow really nice!

i wonder what it would look like if u go with a matte black for the car to go along with those nice rims

jtk2

i like your taillights. whatd you use for those?

Superpickel

I've looked into doing matte black vinyl. The materials are around 650 and labor varies. I just don't have the money to throw at this though.

bluebat overlays

MightyP

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Did the overlays go on clean? no folds or wrinkles or anything?

Superpickel

Unfortunately... no. I kept having issues with the top side of the tail light where the major 90deg turn is. I have another set, just haven't attempted install yet. The first ones where a little too small and I believe if they would have been larger, I could have strectched them. If the new ones dont work out, I'll probably just buy and oversized piece of tinting vinyl that I can strecth easily and then cut the excess.

And i looked at the build you sent me... clean and I think I will eventually have a little more accenting marks in there.

MightyP

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Did you take the taillight housing completely out or install them the overlays with the housings still on the car.

NickF127

I really wish they had a manual black tC at the dealership...fml

supadupac

sick! i like the colored wheels lol.. not too much of a fan of the grill and the drop but hey it's a decent drop for a daily

Superpickel

I left them on the car because I have been told that it can be tricky to use vinyls on free moving object because it is hard to apply pressure without the object moving around. I myself would think that it would be easier to take them off, but... who knows.

axesd

Looks great man!

Superpickel

Updated photos from the car show last weekend...



bad lighting for photos



wifey waiting for the judges





and now a couple of shots from home of the tail lights and new dash color to offset the black...









Tell me what yall think about the color scheme...

MightyP

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Wow! Looks good. You should do lime green wheels to match though! I would like to know what you did to get the dash that color. Did you put material over it? Paint? Vinyl?

Anyway, glad to see an update.

toyozuki

The blacked out tails look sick on the black paint

Superpickel

Plasti-dipped the dash (4 coats), white base (2 coats), flourescent green (3 coats), and gloss clear (2 coats). Turned out good and the picture don't really do it any justice. The color is really vibrant against all of the black. I was going to do accents on my rims (the V in between the spokes with the farthest gap), but had armor-alled the tires and some got on the rims... Tape won't stick to it so I didn't want to have to redo my rims.

Speaking of vinyl though, I am currently checking into vinyl wrapping my car in flat black. I'm getting quotes at the moment and deciding whether I want to do vinyl wrap or paint.

Thanks... Took me a couple of hours and I still have a couple of bubbles here and there and the top of the tails have some wrinkles. I have come to the conclusion that "my" attempts to vinyl the tails has failed. I tried to seek professional help, but the tint shop said that they wouldn't do it, but that the ones I did looked good for a beginner doing them.

Superpickel

I'VE BEEN ROBBED...



j/k. Just decided to give everyone a teaser pic of a possible dash removal diy for painting silver trim pieces...