Hey guys! My name's Chris. Saw you're guys's post and decided to go ahead and paint my wheels, brake calipers, and front grille/scion logo. I painted the 17" alloys striped powder-coat gun metal, which meshes well with the lip of polished silver/gray. The calipers are now red, and the front grille is red with a gun metal scion logo. Next I will do my fog-light covers and rear symbols. I am blacking out my back lights...smoking them, if any of you know how to do it. And getting new halo or HID lights in the next couple weeks. I also just put in my K&N Filter that day which made a great difference along with my blue interior lighting kit. Well here are all the pics in steps of the car to help all of you trying to do this as well!



My old wheel with painted flat black scion cap on it.


My old brake caliper.


My dogs the night before our work-on-Scion day haha.


Painted black Scion cap, on my Peavey Triple XXX Amp lol.


My girlfriend cleaning off my wheels.


Now she's taping them up with me...


...so they end up looking like this, if you are following this design!


Then spraypaint even coats about 2 to 3 times and peel tape to look like this. Our paint was DupliColor High Performance Wheel Paint - Graphite. The cap paint was black high-temp DupliColor barbeque paint.


This is my front grille after we painted it red with the DupliColor Red Caliper paint that we used on the calipers, and painted the Scion logo with the sparkely wheels paint which was a great idea.


My car the next day.


New grille and logo painted on the car.


Another side picture, with my K&N Stickers lol, from purchasing my filter the day before.


New stripe painted wheel powdercoat graphite sparkles w/ factory gloss polish gray and flat black scion cap with chrome nut bolts plus the red caliper and rotor!


Me on my car being blinded by Arizona sunlight.


Anyway! Please respond to this and tell me what you think. Also...add my band @ www.myspace.com/dangersilent please! Thanks a lot!

Also let me know if you have any questions on the process itself!

 

wheels look good, can't say i like the grill though..

 

^i agree, wheels are hot, but the grill needs to go

 

Agree with the previous comments, wheels look nice but that grill is really messing everything up!

 

grill = bright wheels look good though

 

Wow, I hate to sound like a broken record, but I love the wheels but I'm not really feeling the grill. Maybe paint the grill to match the wheels. That gunmetal color might look really good.

 

good idea

maybe i should do the grill the sparkle metal color...and the logo's red? or those metal too?

 

looking good on the wheels....and yea i can't say the same for the grill... mayb a different color...

 

not bad

 

I think the red Logo could look pretty good...My tC is Black Cherry Pearl and I have plans on painting my emblem to match my car. I think red would look good on your emblem with the Super White car.

 

...and I might just steal that wheel set up from you.

 

ya maybe i'll do that

i was also thinkin maybe the whole grille and logo all gun metal powder coat...to give it a blacked out look.

im actually trying to find that nice scion billet grille or whatever that metal one is called...so i can spray it gun metal and put it on my car....then as a joke, im gona get a GTR Skyline emblem and put it on the front of my car lol...to make people be like....wtf....a GTR Scion?

lol

any ideas on where to get that metal grille for cheap?

 

wait a frekin second, yo actually got your gf to help you. my fiance complains when i tell her im gonna wash my car let alone her wanting to help me lolololol. you lucky bastard lol

 

haha we had a lot of fun lol

=]

now if i play a computer game or have band practice...she's not so excited about that...but for some reason she likes being in the studio tho hah

 

rims looks good but not dark enough or its just the flash making it not that bright in the pic.

 

wheels look good man, not feeling the grill, but do what you want, lol, EAT SOMETHING

 

You Fuked those grills!