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5150
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Location: Blyth, Northumberland, UK
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Nice, that's a very solid clean looking car, over here in the UK they're usually rotten by that age - sadly.
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Martijnus
Joined: 29 Dec 2006
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| 5150 wrote: | | Nice, that's a very solid clean looking car, over here in the UK they're usually rotten by that age - sadly. |
damn.. over here only the pre 80s rot like hell.
My 81 is as hard as my little friend in the morning.
and we're close to the salty sea too.
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MSII/extra, LPG, ITB's, 5lug.
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Vince Ponz
Joined: 02 Nov 2002
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Location: Florida
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: |
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Ideola,
If you go the suspension part of this site you will find an article on how to polish you alum wheels to chrome like. I have pictures there too.
It is a lot of work but I have done 5 flat dish wheels and four fuchs wheels and they look very good.
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ideola
Joined: 01 Oct 2004
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Location: Spring Lake MI
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| Vince Ponz wrote: | Ideola,
If you go the suspension part of this site you will find an article on how to polish you alum wheels to chrome like. I have pictures there too.
It is a lot of work but I have done 5 flat dish wheels and four fuchs wheels and they look very good. |
Yep, I've read it multiple times. I like ReMo's automated wheel polisher video, though. Looks like it would take some of the work out of it...still would like to know how the wheel was mounted and what he used for the "belt".
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Rasta Monsta
Joined: 12 Jul 2006
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Location: PacNW
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| Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Martijnus wrote: | | My 81 is as hard as my little friend in the morning. |
Starting to sound like your only friend, mate. Here's to a speedy recovery!
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ReMo
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | So it looks like you used a drill press to drive it...what did you mount the wheel itself on, and what did you use as the "belt"? Very cool idea, BTW! And the results are stunning!
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I used a drill. The wheel is laying on a little wheel from a pram thats in a vice. For the belt i used bicycle straps. I didn't think about how i coud do it. Just i looked was i have and so the idee was born. It works fine but it takes a long time to polisch four wheels.
The wheels are one piece and the bolts where made of plastic just for show. I drilled all the holes up and threaded them. Then I placed Stainless bolts in it. |
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ideola
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Location: Spring Lake MI
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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Very nice! What did you use for polishing materials?
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ReMo
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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First I used;
Waterproofed Sandpapier 400
than
Waterproofed Sandpapier 600
than
Waterproofed Sandpapier 1000
than
Waterproofed Sandpapier 1600
than
Waterproofed Sandpapier 2000
After that I used a polishing brush (in a dril) with green polishing paste and I finisched them with carwax.
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ideola
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So I'm assuming you used the sandpaper while the wheel was turning on your wheel polisher contraption, and then used the polishing brush with the wheels stationary? What did you do on the mesh portion of the wheels, how did you get all of the crevices to clean up? Did you use a bottle brush or something similar?
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ReMo
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I used the sandpaper and polishing brush for the rim edges while the was turning on my wheel polisher contraption.
The spokes sanded I and brusched with spray (bottles). |
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Brockoli
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:19 pm Post subject: |
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love the spoiler, i have the same one!
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Brockoli
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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| Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: |
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those wheels are very nice!!! thats a good idea, I might do the same one day when i refinish my wheels
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aclandis
Joined: 04 Oct 2008
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Location: california Pa.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| i was wonderin if you can get that spoiler anywhere they make a huge dif. my car needs a paint job, that looks like a spoiler id like to get |
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aclandis
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Location: california Pa.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| I found a junkyard car with those wheels and i might save em, but i cant find the caps, just want to know what im gettin into |
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