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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 08:47 PM
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I painted my Z's back in 2004... they last okay, but yellow gets DIRTY... So my t/a I decided to do red. Only did the fronts since I took the wheels off. They came out NICE!!! I took a brush attachment with my drill and sanded off all the grim, then sprayed it down with brake cleaner... results AWESOME!!!
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Old Aug 7, 2012 | 08:52 PM
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Can't see the picture without creating an account there.
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looks good
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looks good
Thanks... it was much easier this time around b/c i just painted what you could see while on the car. When I did my Z's I took brackets n all off soaked them and all, but yellow just sucks!!! Got dirty real quick!
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have you tried the red calipers yet .I was curious which color stopped better i was thinking of doing mine red also thanks in advance
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Looks great!

...bent wheel?????
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Old Aug 9, 2012 | 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by im-not-guilty
have you tried the red calipers yet .I was curious which color stopped better i was thinking of doing mine red also thanks in advance
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...bent wheel?????
huh??
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in the pic it looks like the wheel is a little bent where the tire reads bfgoodrich... Maybe it's just me
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I notice it too... look around the "ood" in goodrich
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Originally Posted by im-not-guilty
have you tried the red calipers yet .I was curious which color stopped better i was thinking of doing mine red also thanks in advance
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What the idiot i bought the wheels from was a young punk and the lips were lime green with the black... It took forever to scrap that **** off.. idk what paint he used, but it gave a fight! I was thinking about grinding off the lips since I use stick on weights... I only bought these wheels for temps. Let not get off topic now gents... strictly showing how clean and bright these actually came out. I'm still shocked looking at them almost a week later.
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looks good i was thinking of doing mine
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What paint did you use? I like it.
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Originally Posted by ccstarnes7
What paint did you use? I like it.
It's the duplicolor brush on kit... careful with their brush they give you, it like to lose brissels. So pull the loose one out before it sticks in the paint... it gets gooey fast.
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i've been wanting to paint/powdercoat mine. been a little on the lazy side though.
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Originally Posted by LE35thSS
i've been wanting to paint/powdercoat mine. been a little on the lazy side though.
Didn't the SS Anniv. come with black painted with Camaro SS decals on it? I can't remember, I thought I saw it on the build sheet in 2003 from a left over... I should've boughten it, but I was young and liked the black one lol
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