I'm picking up another set of 15" slipstreams this week with hopes of stripping the black paint off and high speed polishing them.
Has anyone here on H-T done this before?
Any Pics?

I'm also looking for any pics of an EK/EM1 w/ polished slips mounted.
Post Em' up and help a brother out.

Thanks in advance
-Jeff

 

check MarkZeroNine.....PLus he lives in Tampa too

 

 

I love polished slips. Think they make them in 5 lug and an offset for a tacoma?

 

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5 lug offset for tacoma slipstreams? bad ***... i would like to see them......
I know it tacomas have same bolt pattern as 5 lug hondas...
hmmm.... i wonder

 

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Yeah, I know him from Tamparacing.com, and he's the one I got the idea from in the first place.

I have a pretty good idea of how to strip and polish them, but I wanted to know how much of a bitch it was.
I'm down for a project, But if it's going to take hundreds of hours and tons of cash, I'm going to think twice.

Anymore pics?

Has anyone put polished slips on a EBP Si before?.................That's what I want to mount them on.

 

easy stuff!

i actually took a really easy way of doing it. very incomplete, i never really got around to finishing. i just stripped all the paint with aircraft stripper. get about 5-6 cans because it's a bitch if you want to get ALLL the black from inbetween spokes, and the back etc.
after that, they actually have a NICE shine with just that alone. that's basically all i did.. i threw some polish on but thats about it. if you want to do it right just do the sandpaper thing through the highest grit and polish the hell out of it, that would be much better than what i did.

hope that helped

 

Wat kind of Drop is that?Shock/Spring

 

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if they have the same offset as a 240 check out zilvia.net they are having a group buy on custom slips. i think they are gettin them with a +20 offset.

 

polish slips are pretty hot cars freakin low what is that like a 10inch drop....

 

I could never get mine polished right so i PAINTEd the biatches.

 

Thanks for the tips Mark, How much did you spend on paint stripper alone?

Do you have any up close pics of the slips you just stripped?
Thanks for all your help.

-Jeff

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MarkZeroNine &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">easy stuff!

i actually took a really easy way of doing it. very incomplete, i never really got around to finishing. i just stripped all the paint with aircraft stripper. get about 5-6 cans because it's a bitch if you want to get ALLL the black from inbetween spokes, and the back etc.
after that, they actually have a NICE shine with just that alone. that's basically all i did.. i threw some polish on but thats about it. if you want to do it right just do the sandpaper thing through the highest grit and polish the hell out of it, that would be much better than what i did.

hope that helped </TD></TR></TABLE>
i think im gonna bite your style......hope oyu dont mind..i am pickin up a set of slips that are "scratched"so i figured i was gonna have to at best repaint em.....think ill strip em see how it looks on my black hatch.

 

 

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i think im gonna bite your style......hope oyu dont mind..i am pickin up a set of slips that are "scratched"so i figured i was gonna have to at best repaint em.....think ill strip em see how it looks on my black hatch. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's exactially what I'm doing, I found a set with minor paint scratches and no tires for dirt *** cheap, I couldn't pass up the deal and I've idleized MarkzeroNine's GS-R with DIY polished slips since December of '04.

Props to you Mark

 

polished slips are hard, &lt;3 at first sight

 

anymore pics?

 

if anyone needs polishing done in the CHICAGO area , PM me

 

polished rotas look siic

 

polished slips are freakin tite. makes me wanna strip mine. but my steel grey is lookin pretty nice too

 

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Your car is clean.

Nicely done