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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 12:53 PM
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G35 wheels? On G35 17" wheels, the whole face of the spoke tapers out. You my friend, have 2nd Gen GS300 wheels.
16" GS300 wheel


17" G35 wheel


Logicalman- Where in WA are you located? You'll have to make it out to our meets sometime. We're having one this weekend, next weekend, and the following weekend.....so 3 in the next 3 weeks.....we try to get together quite a bit I guess. Scroll the "Pacific" section and say hi.

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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 03:06 PM
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that's a gs3 rim for sure
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 04:22 PM
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yea i was guessing they were from a GS3 but wasnt sure.

i dont think i can make it out to the first meets since i still got a long way to go but i'll try and make it out to the other ones.

well i'm finished with the driver side door and it looks way better.
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 04:24 PM
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looks good man! What kit did you buy for that wood trim?
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 04:33 PM
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I just painted the wood gun metal. I didnt buy any kit for it.

here is the passenger side door panel
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 04:45 PM
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looks nice and modern man. Good project
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 04:59 PM
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what do you use to paint it black?
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 06:05 PM
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Very very nice man, what do you plan on doing with the tan buttons? Are you gonna paint over those too or just find black replacements?
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 06:07 PM
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Looks like everyone is going with spray. Should come out clean once its done. Did do the carpet also?
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by 1UZ-SC
looks nice and modern man. Good project
thanks! thats what i was going for clean and modern.

Originally Posted by drksyde
what do you use to paint it black?
the product is called SEM expensize compared to dupli-color but its a good thing i got hook ups

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Very very nice man, what do you plan on doing with the tan buttons? Are you gonna paint over those too or just find black replacements?
I'm painting over them. I would go try and find some black ones but I dont want to take the time looking and then end up finding really beat up ones or ones that dont work.

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Looks like everyone is going with spray. Should come out clean once its done. Did do the carpet also?
I'm actually dying the carpet and its soaking right now. I'm not sure its going to work but if it doesnt I'll just get some more SEM's
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Old Mar 12, 2009 | 11:41 PM
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Yea I was kinda thinking of doing the same thing as you. As for the white text on the buttons and stuff what do you plan to do with that? Are you gonna just leave it all blank or custom draw on it?
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 12:12 AM
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I'm just going to paint over them. I covered what I could with tape and tried to cut out the shapes but they didnt come out to well LoL..

Does anybody know of a better way to save the white text?
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 12:17 AM
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keep it up
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 12:18 AM
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If you could find somebody to cut a vinyl image small enough I'd think that'd be the most direct way to go. Maybe try using a paint brush and appropriate paint and paint it on by hand.
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Old Mar 13, 2009 | 06:37 AM
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Forget the text, I tried everything to try to keep it and nothing really works. I even had vinyl text to replace it, but it just looks tacky. After I painted over them, and made it completely black, I was perfectly fine w/ the result. It actually looks pretty cool imo.

Anyways, looks like what I did when I first started modding my SC, I hated the tan too. I used foliatec instead of SEM though, Folia-tec is much better than SEM but so much harder to come by.
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