So i decided tonight would be a good night to start pulling my wheels apart to sandblast them and refinish them. Still undecided on a color.

What they look like now. I have the correct centercaps coming soon thanks to opossum jenkins









80 nuts and bolts are no fun to take apart.



I'm going to harbor freight to get a sandblaster tommorrow to blast these






A little dirty





Tommorrow after work i'm gonna get some 80, 120, 220, 320, 600, 800 and 1000 grit sandpaper and have some fun this weekend

 

ooh nice man..I'm glad you got those bolts off... anyways..I think I may have the rings pretty soon as well..I'll let yah know ...

 

damn man...your arms are going to fall off...im sure it will be well worth it in the end though.

 

I'm only polishing the lip. The face is getting powdercoated. But yeah it's gonna suck. I have a set of bbs mesh to do next


Waiting to get blasted after stripping as much paint as i can by hand




These will be sold so i can pick up another set i want

 

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I sprayed them with wd40 and used a 6point 8mm socket for the bolts and a 12mm open end wrench for the nuts.

 

Before sanding




primer





Hopefully i'll have paint on these tonight

I still have to do the rings and the lips after that

 

Well done

-4doorwh0re on g2ic

 

Back of the wheels





Off to find a color

 

6th and final coat. Just have to clear them and let them cure for a day or two and hopefully by that time my centercaps should be here and then i'll put them back together. Pic sucks they are actually darker.

 

Good job of your working it, Nice.

 

I have some Works Bolzano 3 piece wheels..... does anyone know where I could get new outter lips? I would like to make the wheels into 17x8.5 or 17x9s.
Also how hard is it to take apart and reassemble?
tia,
Ron

 

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Thanks.

 

I'm not fond of the color choice, but the work is well done. If you had a stripping wheel for your drill, you could get rid of those little "crumbs" near the lug holes.

 

Thanks. I thought about the wheel but it was to late. If for whatever reason i do this again that will be done. I was thinking about trying to get the bolts polished to.

Let the paint dry on the fronts overnight and put four coats on the rears and tommorrow i will clear them. And put them back together on wed. And then my next project will be to polish the rings and repaint some centercaps for my bbs wheels that are getting done.

 

the work you're doing looks awesome!

 

Thanks.

 

Really nice job man

Any other pics of the wheels? diff angles or lighting

 

Finally got my camera back. Only pic i have with the wheels on because the rear is on jackstands until my brake issue is resolved. On a good note i got the rear driverside fix so i only have to figure out the passenger rear. Right now it touches a tiny bit when it turns.

 

3 weeks later my money order finally made it thanks to the shitty postal service . But at least my centercaps are on the way

Couple of pics. I'll take some better ones when it's washed

 

Looks nice

 

Great job!

 

i liked the original color better..
should've polished it..
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