TOOLS I USED
-Billet Aluminum Poslish
-Paint Stripper
-Drill Gun with metal brush wire
-100-2000 gritt sand paper
-BEER
-Lots of nerves

Tools

Step 1: Apply paint stripper, it will make your life easier. Once you apply it, leave it between 5-10 minutes to eat up the paint, and then use a hard flat surface, to scrape it off. This is what it looks like after you strip it off, notice the paint is still there. use the drill gun with metal wire and brush it off.

With a little help of a 100 gritt paper, you will be able to see the wheel surface

The hardes part is to sand down the paint in the corners, so use 100 gritt paper and get ready to sand down you finger prints

Move to 320 gritt paper, and continue sanding

Move up to 600 gritt paper, and continue sanding

Be sure to take your tame and not leave the scratches on the wheels, if you do they will be noticed, you will have to go back down a gritt and sand over again till its removed

I decided to stop with 1000 gritt paper, which may have been a bad idea, so i would recommend going up to 2000 gritt paper. after youre done wash off the residue off from the wheel and the tire. the tire will not be washed off from the first try

apply tire foam, to clean the tire a little better

After youre done washing the wheel, apply the billet aluminum polish. Rub it till the area beings to turn black, your white cloth will turn black as well. use the clean side to whipe it off, and after youre done, apply polish once again, as many times as you want till its shiny to your liking.

The shine and finish will vary depending on how patient you were. Like i said, i suggest you go all the way to 2000 gritt paper, and make sure you dont leave any scratches on the wheel.

This is the overall appearance of the wheel. now its time for me to drop my car.

You are done, and now you can get that long deserved beer, and admire your work

Side note:

I mentioned i only went up to 1000 gritt paper, and i got the finish in the picture above. Now i decided to go up to 2000, and instead of hand polishing i used a buffer, and this is the final result.

Elvir

Modified by Elvir at 3:56 PM 3-13-2006

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Then, when you apply your polish, you need to use a machine (polisher, or drill with attachment)

You simply cannot apply metal polish by hand and get a really good result.

To fix you wheels. Go back with 1500 paper (and maybe even follow up with 2000). Dont shortcut the sanding.... its takes alot of time, but doing it right is worth it. Then apply your metal polish with a high speed machine (a drill attacment will be fine).

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So far so good What are you going to do with the center caps?

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How long didi it take you to finish one wheel?

looks good, lets see all of them get done.
i was thinking about doing this myself, a project, but i found a bumper w/pzwo lip im gonna mold.

Elvir

I skipped polishing and just painted mine black

What is up with those shoes. My god man.

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Thats how refugees roll man!!

You tell em!, just insted of a hose, we use "Metle"

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it took about 10 hours, but my next wheel i have a feeling that its gonna go half that time because i saw some great tools that im gonna rent out for free.

Elvir

like what, little ****can boys?

Modified by GrapplingVR6 at 3:24 PM 3-10-2006

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like what, little mexican boys?

edit it, i dont want people to know my intentions!

Elvir

Done, and Done. Your secret is safe with me, along with those Buschs Baked Bean Recipe. LAWLZ!!!!1one1!!!eleven!!!

Then again, all this will be remedied with a power polisher and some jewlers rouge. Mirror finish that isht!

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