Okay,now that im back into a house with a garage,its time to start back up on my mark.Something that ive been thinking about for a while is toning down the wheels,To me the wheels just look like too much"bling",and sense ive been in Florida ive noticed the chrome is taking a beating from the salt and chemicals.So ive been arguing with the wife,she says leave them alone,i say they will look better after i "fix them".Here is what im wanting to do,sand them,prep them and spray them with a transparent black,this will make them look like a black chrome wheel but more toward the chrome side.Or paint just the inside of the wheel black and re clear the whole wheel.Or paint the whole wheel black.I would like to have everyones thoughts on what i should do.Chrome,blackchrome,black/chrome,or all black??

i didnt know you were in orlando dude, i didnt even know you were in florida!!! i want to try and plan another mark VIII meet and cook out, you'll have to come over, 90 minute drive isnt bad!
on the wheels, i say you give me them, and i'll give you my speedstars!!!!
black chrome would look good though, thats what i am gonna do my valve covers and intake.

I think if you were to get them powdercoated black they would look pretty good. I do like them how they are right now but since you want to get away from the chrome, I would go with just black.

please tell me HOOD?

please tell me HOOD?

he made it, search function!!!!!!!!!!!

i didnt know you were in orlando dude, i didnt even know you were in florida!!! i want to try and plan another mark VIII meet and cook out, you'll have to come over, 90 minute drive isnt bad!
on the wheels, i say you give me them, and i'll give you my speedstars!!!!
black chrome would look good though, thats what i am gonna do my valve covers and intake.

You got it Jamie,tell me when the next meet is and i will be there! But hopefully
the meet isnt real soon,because i have to get my butt in gear and get some things done.I just move out of Orlando last Saturday,now i live in Ponce Inlet. Apartment living sucked!! Oh and save me some black sun visors please.I will buy them off you when i finally get to meet you.:)

i want to have sex with your car.

Hypercoated black face and keep the chrome lip or make it looke brushed/polished.

And sweet car. One of my first threads here was asking about your car. I saw the nose and just had to have it. Unfortunatly I have no skills so I couldnt copy it. :(

My vote would be for black/with that nice wide chrome lip, or the blackchrome you mentioned. I've never been real fond of solid black wheels as it looks wierd with a different shade of black for the tires, an outline/lip/etc of a bit of chrome helps alot imho...
Any which way you choose, I'm sure your car will look amazing as always :)

first off the car is perfect.........but id black the center of the wheel you cant kill that huge chrome lip on those things

Best looking mark Viii out there

spray them with a transparent black, or sell them to me. lol

I'm gonna say black/chrome would look the best with the lip on those...

Are you still doing body work?

Paint them black and leave a chrome lip.

weird I know the car is black but for some reason it looks like a very dark emerald green on my screen and it looks really really good. hmmmm

Still can't decide if I LIKE or LOVE that front end and want to do something like that on my car. don't know.

I noticed that you still have Missouri plates on it. Did you move down there permanently?

I say sand em and paint em black with a polished lip.

Off topic a little, Can I see some pictures of your taillights from a few angles.... I want to black mine out but not sure how it will look.

that is the most rediculusly awsome MVIII i have ever seen. to match the blacked out lenses and genral stealth look you should look into the wheels roush puts on the blackjack thoes would just set your car off if you could get them with a lip. or just get that black chrome look on your rims. i got to drive one of thoes as well as the p51. the p51 was stupid fast
http://www.roushperformance.com/mustang_st3_blackjack2009.shtml

god i think i am gonna paint my trim around the doors and quarter glass too that thing is just bad! if i cook you a few burgers will you copy me another front bumper like that lol!!

Blue T those pics give me so much motivation to get Stack's Mark done it isn't even funny...

Black chrome spokes and chrome lip. I hate seeing a Mark with plates on the front but even that one looks good. Really, the rims look good as they are to me.

Black Powder Coated FR500's with a polished or brushed lip.

can someone else please say they want to have sex with his car so i do not feel weird

Ponce Inlet is pretty nice. Now your just a stone`s throw away from the Canal St. cruise. Awesome cars show up to it. Had my Tahoe there one year.

I think if I had to do it again, I would probably go with the black wheels and a chrome lip. Unfortunately, I did not do that, and now wish I had. I still like what I've got, but would rather have gotten the chrome lip.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ClJiOtKu3Z0/S7pNfPoT4XI/AAAAAAAAANg/JT55bl7EP1k/s800/IMG_0828.JPG

Black chrome/transparent black sounds like a good idea.

Ok, I know there are some photoshop guru's here so for giggles take the wheels off my wife's car and apply them to the Mark:

http://www.explorerforum.com/photopost/data/3549/mark1.jpg

http://www.explorerforum.com/photopost/data/3549/P10101031.jpg


AND


http://www.explorerforum.com/photopost/data/3549/mark2.jpg

http://www.explorerforum.com/photopost/data/3549/P10101052.jpg



I tried to find sme pics as close to the same angles as his photos were taken at.

I'm gonna say black/chrome would look the best with the lip on those...

Are you still doing body work?

I just moved into a garage,its going to be awhile before i start doing body work
have to do my car first.:D

weird I know the car is black but for some reason it looks like a very dark emerald green on my screen and it looks really really good. hmmmm

Still can't decide if I LIKE or LOVE that front end and want to do something like that on my car. don't know.

I noticed that you still have Missouri plates on it. Did you move down there permanently?
I just moved down here this year.couldnt stand the winters anymore.
god i think i am gonna paint my trim around the doors and quarter glass too that thing is just bad! if i cook you a few burgers will you copy me another front bumper like that lol!!
Jamie i would be more than happy to come over one weekend and knock some stuff out.We would have a blast.
Blue T those pics give me so much motivation to get Stack's Mark done it isn't even funny...
Your doing a great job on stacks car.Take your time and do it right.
Black chrome spokes and chrome lip. I hate seeing a Mark with plates on the front but even that one looks good. Really, the rims look good as they are to me.
Well sense i moved to florida i can drop the front plate and fill in the holes.i also hate front license plates.there is alot im going to do to the car,just have to get the money flowing back in again:D

weird I know the car is black but for some reason it looks like a very dark emerald green on my screen and it looks really really good. hmmmm

Still can't decide if I LIKE or LOVE that front end and want to do something like that on my car. don't know.

I noticed that you still have Missouri plates on it. Did you move down there permanently?

Emerald green......? lol. There is a blue pearl i found i like,after i re shoot the car black i might shoot a blue pearl over the black.but i have too much other things to do before i can get to that(like make money).

i like your car the way it is but im not a fan of black rims... and if i could get a gen 2 that looked like that i would jump to one... that one looks sick man nice job...

god i think i am gonna paint my trim around the doors and quarter glass too that thing is just bad! if i cook you a few burgers will you copy me another front bumper like that lol!!

+1 on everything mentioned above!!! No matter how close, Miami's still f*ckin far though!

can someone else please say they want to have sex with his car so i do not feel weird

Dude, I think everyone on this thread has mentioned it already but they are shy to express it to the owner of the car on this thread!:D Remember, if someone says they want to have sex w/ur wife, wouldn't u get mad? Same here man. We don't share our ladies or our cars! lol:p

I don't want anyone to have sex with my car.

can someone else please say they want to have sex with his car so i do not feel weird

I admit i would if it was my car, this way it gets around the whole awkwardness of it being someone elses

This weekend i finally got around to painting the wheels,well kind of,I just took them off degrease them and shot them with a cheap semi gloss black.I wasnt sure if i would like them black or not.any input would be appreciated :) so tell me what you guys think.
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Looks good.

It's missing something. Chrome lip would help out a lot but like I said before, they looked good all chrome. Maybe if they were black chrome with a chrome lip, that would do it but solid black, I'm not feeling it. Something tells me you're not feeling it either. I'm just being honest and you do have one of, if not the best looking Gen II on the forum.

Too much black chrome lip would have set it off

that car is makeing me drool...always has..

edit: late on the responce....

i liked it better before imho...still looks good though.

Have sex with his car...yes....and I've had sex with peoples wives too...I share if you do

and omg, I love those rims, what are they, did you have to do a hub swap...and why the hell did you paint them black...the chrome was awsome in your car, great work on the Gen2 cowell, an the bumper blend is simply killer, I always liked the Stalker kits for Mustangs, but you my friend deffinalty have a talent for body work -applause-

even if you did ruin those rims, thats me, straight and honest

Not liking the black wheels.... how about a gunmetal or silver?

The chrome or stainless steel lip would look great. The other thing you may want to try is shoot the lip with some mat silver or gray paint. That would definitely set them off and apart from any wheels out there. Just a thought. I know you don't get tired of hearing this but that car is just one of a kind and bad ass IMO.

The chrome or stainless steel lip would look great. The other thing you may want to try is shoot the lip with some mat silver or gray paint. That would definitely set them off and apart from any wheels out there. Just a thought. I know you don't get tired of hearing this but that car is just one of a kind and bad ass IMO.

x2.

Yeh im not feeling it either.I think im going to try shotting them with a gloss black and leave the lip chrome.But the resone i am painting them is because the lip is starting to get some bad spots on them.

+like 100 black w/ chrome lip

I like it but I think it needs 1 chasing red lite in the grill and then it would be good to go.;)

I like chome, I like black... my opnion would suck here. I'm going through the same issue. My chrome wheels are starting to peel but I dont want to loose the chrome so I haven't painted them. If I do they will be painted black ofcourse!

I like chome, I like black... my opnion would suck here. I'm going through the same issue. My chrome wheels are starting to peel but I dont want to loose the chrome so I haven't painted them. If I do they will be painted black ofcourse!

Tonight im going to take the paint back off and paint just the lip gloss black.good thing black paint is cheap! ILL post some more pic's when im done.if i dont like it i will just leave them chrome....

This product is great if you're thinking black chrome still.

http://powderbuythepound.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1093

As long as your chrome is in good shape, this would just be one coat. I'm sure there is someone in your area for powder coating.

This product is great if you're thinking black chrome still.

http://powderbuythepound.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1093

As long as your chrome is in good shape, this would just be one coat. I'm sure there is someone in your area for powder coating.

thank you for the info.i did try to shoot the wheels with a transparent black but with all the different contores of the wheel it looked too blotched up.