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\"\"<\/a>A by product of working on Ckucky’s Taco, I discovered that the Ace Hardware in Kaimuki carries a pretty good selection of Plastidip products, including the colorizers. They didn’t have the new copper metalizer, so I picked up a can of the gold to play with. If you look almost a year back when I got the FR-S, one of the first things I did was try out the black spray Plastidip\u00c2\u00a0 on my rims. Made them look a lot better. Been thinking about doing the metalizer color since then, but no one brought those spray cans in, and no one wants to ship them to Hawaii. Finally get a chance. Debated what to do about the original coat of black, should I remove and start all over? The original coat actually still looks pretty good, so I decided to do what J suggested and lay down a new layer of black on the existing, and then go for it. \"\"<\/a>Gave the rims a good washing and there were a few spots where it was peeling. Decided to go ahead and see how spraying a layer on top would go. Then I busted out the gold metalizer. When I did a little test shot,\u00c2\u00a0this stuff was almost like a super fine metal flake. The spray mist in the air sparkled. If you check\u00c2\u00a0it out in closeup, you can see how it isn’t just a solid gold.\u00c2\u00a0Interesting. Actually started to look not bad, a lot like my textured gold\/bronze Volks TE37s. Perhaps because of the high particulate count in the paint\/colorizer, I did get some occasional splatters.<\/p>\n

I then ran into a problem, aside from it being dark, the can of metalizer felt more than half empty. I decided to not attempt more and rearranged my wheels so I had a harlequin FR-S and put the two gold wheels\u00c2\u00a0on the drivers side. You’ll never be able to see both sides of the car at the same time, so this would look fine. A lot better than having one black and one gold rim on one side.\"\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0Sorry, it’s night now so you can’t quite get a good feel for how it looks on the car. Will have to wait till tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A by product of working on Ckucky’s Taco, I discovered that the Ace Hardware in Kaimuki carries a pretty good selection of Plastidip products, including the colorizers. They didn’t have the new copper metalizer, so I picked up a can of the gold to play with. If you look almost a year back when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saJYlx-bling","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}