drsmith1979
19-07-2007, 17:06
Picked up my turbines on tuesday from someone breaking a diesel! had them dropped off at the powder coaters yesterday to clean them. He ended up blasting them for me and as he had some left over from a previous job he acid etch primed them and then high build primed them for free! best £40 i've spent in a while!
Anyway, picked them up today at lunchtime and then popped over to the paint man, got a single can of spray paint and a can of clear laquer. Couldnt decide on colour, i had looked around and having been inspired by Swervin_Mervin i opted for Rover Gunmetal grey metallic!.... sadly in the shop it looked completely different and too blue so i opted instead for an Alfa Gregio Titanio metallic, similar to the ferrari colour. ...
a couple of hours later and some hard graft this is the end result...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007256.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007260.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007257.jpg
its hard to appreciate the colour with the sun being so bright, but they are a great colour of shiny grey titanium without being silver! lovely! The rims are sanded back to bare metal, which is hard to get looking right without a lathe! so upclose you can see the imperfections, but at a slight distance 1m+ they look great which is what i was aiming for. 4 coats of clear coat, inside and out they look great! off to get some tyres tomorrow i think and put them on the car! wooohooo
what do you think?
and yes, i will be running them without centre caps because
a) i dont have any
b) i think it looks meaner
Anyway, picked them up today at lunchtime and then popped over to the paint man, got a single can of spray paint and a can of clear laquer. Couldnt decide on colour, i had looked around and having been inspired by Swervin_Mervin i opted for Rover Gunmetal grey metallic!.... sadly in the shop it looked completely different and too blue so i opted instead for an Alfa Gregio Titanio metallic, similar to the ferrari colour. ...
a couple of hours later and some hard graft this is the end result...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007256.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007260.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v220/drsmith/19072007257.jpg
its hard to appreciate the colour with the sun being so bright, but they are a great colour of shiny grey titanium without being silver! lovely! The rims are sanded back to bare metal, which is hard to get looking right without a lathe! so upclose you can see the imperfections, but at a slight distance 1m+ they look great which is what i was aiming for. 4 coats of clear coat, inside and out they look great! off to get some tyres tomorrow i think and put them on the car! wooohooo
what do you think?
and yes, i will be running them without centre caps because
a) i dont have any
b) i think it looks meaner