I POSTED THIS IN THE WHEEL THREAD BUT WANTED TO SHOW YOU GUYS WHAT I WAS WORKING ON.

Took on a little project last weekend. Took about 5 days but it was well worth it.

The blades were all worn and scratched up. Clear coat was cracking and what not. Heres the process. ENJOY.

What they looked like before

Airplane stipper!

First wet sanding process

After a couple passes on wet sanding with a low grit(320) no pics of 400 grit

Third passes with a higher grit(600)

Fourth pass with another higher grit(800)

Finished with 1000 grit and polished with MOTHERS


Mounted on the car. Looks good


Hope you liked it. Fingers are cramped up but it think its well worth it. Tell me what you think

 

seeing this makes up for your clutch blunders

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GRAF-FITI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> seeing this makes up for your clutch blunders </TD></TR></TABLE>
ahaha my clutch got banged up after i finish.. what a bummer right?

 

haha, that looks pretty damn nice!

 

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thanks.. its not all that shinny but 10000000x better then what it used to be.. it looked like *** ahahah

 

i would throw a coat of clear on those too

 

that looks good, thanks man, ima do mine now too, mine are bad too, are you sure about throwing on clear coat? it looks fine the way it is, gonna look weird with clear coat, iono i may be wrong

 

Looks like you did a pretty good job, I wouldn't have the patience to finish them in a day, even two...

 

lol when im doing this, ima get my lil bros and my friends to help me i dont no how you did this on ur own, or i might do 1 rim at a time

 

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hehe i did the same but had to go over on there mistakes alot of them

 

Mind putting up a list of everything you used? That's be awesome. Good work on the wheels

 

Awesome job with the prep for the blades. That must have taken forever.

 

wow, what a transformation. very nice

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread/1259115
here you go my guy

 

Thanks bro!

 

nice job looks good

 

nice polish finish.

 

they really look nice i wish i did that to my webs before i got them painted bronze but they still look good

 

Very nice job on the cleanup

 

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THANKS! it took a while. i did one wheel a day last weekend... hand polished them too.. took forever...

 

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Goodluck with the wheels. Post them when your done.. BTW, if your plannning to do it with others, make sure they got patience and a steady hand.. you do not want to rush this or skip steps.. and make sure you sand them down with medium pressure, not with alot of force.. trust me on this

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by b18_integra &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">they really look nice i wish i did that to my webs before i got them painted bronze but they still look good </TD></TR></TABLE>]
yea i was planning to paint the mother f***** but i just decided to polish them.. looks nicer

 

damn thats a big difference. i might have to do this to a new set of ls meshies i just got becuz right now theyr uhh.......

 

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what do you think he stripped off to begin with? yes you need to put clear coat on them. it keeps it maintenance free and they will always shine. if you just leave the clear coat off you will constantly be polishing them to look almost as shiny as if there was clear coat on them. take my advice brethren ive been painting cars and **** for 8 years. and if you wanted to speed the process up this is what i would do. take all four wheels off, strip the clear off all of them, hose them down. use a drill and a wire wheel or some kind of attatchment and then polish it out. buy a can of automotive clear from autozone or something and spray it on. from there you can buff that out if you want but i dont reccomend it. if you do a good job sprayin they will be shiny and maintenance free.

 

you hand polished?? dude i wudve used the mothers powerball, lol that must of taken forever, what kind of polish did you use? alumium?