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Postby Mate » May 3rd, 2012, 12:06 pm

Ok, so after seeing a few really nice Commodores and Falcons getting around my town with some nice clean stockies on, I’ve been a little obsessed with them! Haha. Even though I’ve got a nice set of 17” rims on my EF XR6, I just love the style of stockies for some reason and I wanted to get a set. I also wanted to give myself a little cheap project to keep me interested as I’m not that mechanically minded and don’t have the cash right now to do any serious modifications.
Anyway, just made this tread to show off my ride and record my very simple little project which will involve trying out different colours, caps, tyres and maybe even widening of these cheap wheels that seem so popular these days and come up with the best combination for my car.

Probably one of my biggest inspirations would have to be Mr_4.0’s beast here viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18350&p=348769&hilit=15x8+wheels#p348769


This is my pride and joy I’ve had since I was 17.

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First step – buy some dirty old stockies from the wreckers!

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby mad_keen » May 3rd, 2012, 12:30 pm

Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 3rd, 2012, 12:30 pm

After a high pressure hose down – looking a little better?

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Wire wheel to get the rust off!

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 3rd, 2012, 12:35 pm

mad_keen wrote:Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre


Same here, you can go the easy option and get some plastic chrome wheel trims, but I’m not the biggest fan of them. That might be something I try, cheers!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 3rd, 2012, 4:50 pm

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby EFFalcon » May 3rd, 2012, 8:43 pm

haha, photo makes it look like 17" stockies, with a nice centre cap :P
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mr_4.0 » May 3rd, 2012, 8:48 pm

Widen them for sure.

If you need more pics of my ef just pm me your number and I'll text you some.
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby [D1SCNT] » May 3rd, 2012, 8:52 pm

is that half a go kart tire laying in front of it?

re paint the black and they will look heaps better dont need to go nuts just get a pressure pack of any old black.

btw stockies rule!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mr_4.0 » May 3rd, 2012, 8:56 pm

D1scnt you had one of the best eseries on stockies I've ever seen!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby mad_keen » May 3rd, 2012, 9:05 pm

Lol isn't that what the wheel is sitting on?
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 3rd, 2012, 9:22 pm

Haha, yeah I just sat it on a go kart wheel in from of my mag to see what it looks like, does look like a 17 inch stockie cos it's closer to the camera! Does look nice with that centre cap, gives me an idea!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 4th, 2012, 10:40 am

mad_keen wrote:Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre


Had a quick go last night sanding a bit back and then hitting it with the wire wheel, came up alright, but it’s going to take a while to do and quite hard to do the tight grooves, I need some dremel drill bits…

Would paint stripper be quicker at getting it back to metal?

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby [D1SCNT] » May 4th, 2012, 10:57 am

Mr_4.0 wrote:D1scnt you had one of the best eseries on stockies I've ever seen!


haha cheers man you referring to the red thing?
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby SnipeZ » May 4th, 2012, 11:10 am

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby [D1SCNT] » May 4th, 2012, 11:28 am

why strip it?

just wet rub the thing by hand with some 400g papper, etch prime it, then paint it.
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 4th, 2012, 11:56 am

I was going to just paint, but as mad_keen said
mad_keen wrote:Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre

So was just seeing what it would look like, come up a bit shinier than just painting the lip silver, then paint the centre silver or black. Just trying stuff. Cheers
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby [D1SCNT] » May 5th, 2012, 9:23 pm

Mate wrote:I was going to just paint, but as mad_keen said
mad_keen wrote:Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre

So was just seeing what it would look like, come up a bit shinier than just painting the lip silver, then paint the centre silver or black. Just trying stuff. Cheers


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mask you bare steel lip off, paint inside black. unmask lip. polish lip then seal lip.

you cant keep it just bare metal its only going to rust after the first rain sesh. you need to seal it
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 7th, 2012, 3:29 pm

[D1SCNT] wrote:
Mate wrote:I was going to just paint, but as mad_keen said
mad_keen wrote:Always wondered what it would look like if someone sanded, polished and cleared the lip on some steelies and painted the centre

So was just seeing what it would look like, come up a bit shinier than just painting the lip silver, then paint the centre silver or black. Just trying stuff. Cheers


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mask you bare steel lip off, paint inside black. unmask lip. polish lip then seal lip.

you cant keep it just bare metal its only going to rust after the first rain sesh. you need to seal it


So by seal you mean clear coat it?
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 7th, 2012, 4:02 pm

Finally got the paint off and wire wheeled the lip, looking ok. What should I used to polish? Never really polished metal before.

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby SnipeZ » May 7th, 2012, 4:16 pm

Autosol metal polish.
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby mad_keen » May 7th, 2012, 4:37 pm

Hit it with lighter and lighter sand paper in the same direction so it looks nice and even.
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 11th, 2012, 11:43 am

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 14th, 2012, 10:05 am

Masked off the lip ready for paint
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After a couple of coats of silver (ended up doing 5)
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Currently after 2 coats of clear
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 15th, 2012, 4:22 pm

Finished!

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby TechXR » May 15th, 2012, 4:53 pm

They look heaps good!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby mad_keen » May 15th, 2012, 6:53 pm

That looks awesome for a steelie!!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 16th, 2012, 10:51 am

Thanks guys!

Thinking about getting a set of BfGoodrich tyres from them, they may not suit, but I love the look of them. Maybe someone can photo shop these tyres on the back of my car?

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby get_an_ea_today » May 16th, 2012, 12:32 pm

Why not black stockies? Still its looks good man :good:
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 16th, 2012, 2:26 pm

Just trying to class them up a bit! Trying to make them a little different, that’s why I’ve done the polished lip instead of just buying chrome wheel trims.
Wouldn’t mind trying something like this though.

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 16th, 2012, 4:52 pm

Just a side thought, saw this picture, you couldn’t go passed FTR rims if they where really this big! :shock:
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I reckon FTR’s are about the best design out there, if they were just a bit bigger, even 17’s I’d have them for sure!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby SnipeZ » May 16th, 2012, 4:59 pm

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 16th, 2012, 5:14 pm

Yeah the copies, not bad, but that just didn’t quite look the same.
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby get_an_ea_today » May 17th, 2012, 12:08 am

Mate wrote:Just trying to class them up a bit! Trying to make them a little different, that’s why I’ve done the polished lip instead of just buying chrome wheel trims.


The polished lip looks awesome, but I don't know I've always thought silver stockies were very commodore spec. If it was black the polished lip would stand out more too... But yeah should look good either way man ;)
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Re: Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby SnipeZ » May 17th, 2012, 7:13 am

get_an_ea_today wrote:
Mate wrote:Just trying to class them up a bit! Trying to make them a little different, that’s why I’ve done the polished lip instead of just buying chrome wheel trims.


The polished lip looks awesome, but I don't know I've always thought silver stockies were very commodore spec. If it was black the polished lip would stand out more too... But yeah should look good either way man ;)

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 17th, 2012, 10:38 am

I’ve only done the one wheel so far, so I think I might do the next one with black centres and see which one I like the best and then do the others. Can more or less see what the black looks like above before I painted silver, but I guess it would look a lot better with a decent paint job. Cheers guys
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Postby Mate » May 17th, 2012, 12:14 pm

Not bad for 1 minute using Paint! Can hardly tell! Haha

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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

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You know what I like that!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby Mate » May 28th, 2012, 11:18 am

With my new centre cap!
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Re: Project Stockies and my EF XR6

Postby SnipeZ » May 28th, 2012, 11:20 am

Tried black yet?
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Postby get_an_ea_today » May 28th, 2012, 1:34 pm

SnipeZ wrote:Tried black yet?


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