It's been fun.


Modified by ^^ALUCARD^^ at 5:41 AM 1/24/2008

 

looks good so far.. make sure you torque them correctly at 25lbs of torque when you are ready

 

nice, blitz 01

 

Thanks. Got a guy who builds these 2 piece rims for a living to help me out if I need any but I should be fine.

 

i like to keep it og and i did so on my blitz 01's also

 

Are you the guy who had a huge thread(50 something pages) trying to sell his blitz about a year ago? I lost track of that thread....man the repolished even the bolts and nuts!

Anyways, care to share how you redid the lip? Did you have to sand down the corrosion? Or had it professionally done?

 

i actually sold these in like september 06 and my thread was not that long. everything was original on my blitz except for the polished lips and the rivets were original coat. i had my rims professionally machine polished. if you are doing it by hand then you will need to strip off all teh old clearcoat and start w/ like 320 grit and go up from there. u will also need to use compounds and polish them last with metal polish. all i did after i had mine done was polish them w/ NEV-R-DULL metal polish every car wash to keep up the shine.

i had mine done at a local shop for $20 per barrel but i had to remove the bolts and put them back on afterwards.

 

ARE YOU SERIOUS? That is dirt cheap! I wish I could find a shop here that would do it for $20 a barrel. Can you give me the shop number where you got it done? I'm gonna see if its worth sending them to a buddy to have it repolished.


So if you have it professionally repolished, you dont have to strip the clear? That would be nice, I thought there was no way of getting around it.

 

Adam, you're friggen insane man.

Always upping the baller status.

 

Looks good.

I'm in the process of doing the same thing to some Rays Engineering Texan Shotguns for my xB. I've polished half the bolts so far. I am going to have the chrome stripped and the centers polished instead of re-chroming. However, your wheels look like they're in a bit better shape than mine.

 

Sushi, what size are your rims? Mine looks that dirty on the inside too.

 

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They are 16x7, +37, 4/5x100 (yes, there are nine holes per wheel). The back of the chrome centers are really badly oxidized, but a chemical dip should take care of that.

 

Great thread!

One of my all time favorite rims

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ^^ALUCARD^^ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ARE YOU SERIOUS? That is dirt cheap! I wish I could find a shop here that would do it for $20 a barrel. Can you give me the shop number where you got it done? I'm gonna see if its worth sending them to a buddy to have it repolished. So if you have it professionally repolished, you dont have to strip the clear? That would be nice, I thought there was no way of getting around it. </TD></TR></TABLE> well..i guess they stripped the clear for me w/ their polishing machine.

it's called speedway polishing in santa ana ,ca

 

dayum, amazing progress!

 

dam how much did you end up paying to restore those nuts and bolts and wheels altogether?

 

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Read his post. He mentions that he did them himself.

 

Thanks bro....^^^

 

lookin good so far. im assuming you've got an S2K, what color is it?

 

your ****** crazy Adam

 

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Thanks, I have a Berlina....It's got alittle makeover this winter though. I did a few AP2 conversion parts(headlights/bumper/front lip/tail lights) I cant wait till we get out of this below zero temps so I can put her back together!



Peter, you know whats going down in sept!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ^^ALUCARD^^ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Thanks, I have a Berlina....It's got alittle makeover this winter though. I did a few AP2 conversion parts(headlights/bumper/front lip/tail lights) I cant wait till we get out of this below zero temps so I can put her back together!

Peter, you know whats going down in sept! </TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah i know whats going on.. My stuff will be here early March-Mid March..

i think you know what i got

 

how did you clean those bolts off? what kind of material...i need to do that to my brothers wheels too!

 

cool thread - bump for the same rims i had on my dc2 RS

 

I should have some pictures up tommorrow. I just got done polishing 1 of my lip. I wanna see what you guys think....