So I live in Japan right now and visit my local up garage about every other week. Last week I came across 4 Watanabe rims for 10000 yen ish (cost me about $110USD). They were pretty clean and just needed a strip and paint job.
I have wanted to get the TOMS rims off my Hachi for a while and now a set or Watanabes fell into my lap.
First thing I did was take them to a Sand blaster booth to get all of that old crappy looking paint off. After it taking 2 hours to do one rim I finally had to ask the owner if it was working right. I felt pretty embarrassed when he took the plastic bag out of the hose, but it sure did work a lot better after.
After I was done when all of the rims I went to the store and picked up some denatured alcohol, primer spray paint and matte black spray paint. I used a little dish soap and water to give the rims a quick wipe down top get all of the extra sand/anything else off of the rims. Then I used the alcohol and gave them another wipe down to make sure I got the best and cleanest rims to paint. After the wipe down i gave the rims an even coat of primer and let dry for 1.5 hrs
They looked pretty sexy already so I decided it was time for the black. I gave each rim a nice coat and let them dry for 30 min. after about 3 coats they were looking really good so I just lightly sprayed over the rims from about 3 feet away to try and give them the matte finish.
This was my first time ever doing anything like this and I think they came out pretty good. I am getting tires put on them on Saturday so I will make sure to take some pictured of them installed on the car.
Rattle can Watanabes
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Wow That looks great man! So lucky you live in Japan.
'85 GT-S project since 2010
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That levin is so clean, love it.
Wheels came out great, nice work.
Wheels came out great, nice work.
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Well here she is with new shoes
What do you think?
What do you think?
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Nice job man, your plate says your in okinawa, you like it there?
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Yup i am in Okinawa and its pretty dope. I think mainland has more of a car scene tho.
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and thank you btw
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Wow they look super sexy lucky find
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very nice panda
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Thank you guys. Just an update i guess, but the rims are still holding on to the paint nicely!
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lucky man clean you have there is 13 or 14 rims ??
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wow you lucked out, and good job looks clean!