Pics of my polished stock rims

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nastety92

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Well I finally got to take a few pics of my rims all nice and polished up. I have two done, all remounted, balanced, and new valve stems. I've put a lot of time into these wheels, they should look good. I used the kit from the Eastwood Company, it was the wheels refinishing and polishing kit. It cost about $90-95 which included shipping. I also bought some other polishing wheels and polishing supplies, which ran about $25. The clear coat stripper I used was about $10 and that did all four rims. My only other expence was the paint and clear coat, which cost roughly $20 for all four wheels. I think they look a lot better than they did before. My wheels had the clear coat pealing and they were all curbed and scuffed up. Now they are nice and smooth, shinney and all painted up. I painted the GMC letters black and the inserts a light grey metalic. Here's a link, let me know what you think and if you have any more questions please feel free. Also, here's my e-mail if anyone has any other questions.
Lata,

http://community.webshots.com/album/30838556uaDwqXfgRs


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BAD BOW TY

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Hey man hook me up with were you got the polishing kit.Is it pretty easy to do?Can it remove the tarnished/brown brake dust look to my front wheels?If its not a problem please write back giving me a detailed description of what I can do to make my TY rims look as sharp as those beauties!thanks justin
 
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typhoon1588

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Damn Nick! I knew all the work and BS would pay off! They look fantastic! Good job man, I knew they'd come out gorgeous.

So, when am I gonna get to see em in person?

Mike
 
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nastety92

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Thanks guys for the great reply's.
Mike, when I used the kit from the Eastwood company it was like sanding. They give you 5 steps to do. The first three are different grit rouges. The first one is an 80 grit, and you apply the rouge to a buffing wheel, which is supplied, then u start buffing the wheels. Then you go to the 220 grit then the 320. After that, you use this brown tripoli rouge, and then the last step the white fine polish. So when you feel my rims now them are completly smooth. No more grove marks at all. My only concern is if the clear that I applied will stick. Thanks again for the compliments,
ttyl,
 
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kwick6

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I'm thinking about doing this myself. Did the clearcoat workout for you?
I might need to get some small bends in the outer edge repaired. I would like to do this myself now that I see how nice they come out. :D

So you didn't have to buy a small hand-held electric sander?
Did you strip the existing clearcoat on the inserts before painting them?
Did you paint the inserts before or after you started the polishing kit?
Could you give me a list of all things you used starting with the Eastwood kit, the paint you used on the inserts, etc.? Did you put new o rings on the center caps?

Thanks,
Scott
 
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ParTyBoy

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kwick6 said:
I'm thinking about doing this myself. Did the clearcoat workout for you?
I might need to get some small bends in the outer edge repaired. I would like to do this myself now that I see how nice they come out. :D

So you didn't have to buy a small hand-held electric sander?
Did you strip the existing clearcoat on the inserts before painting them?
Did you paint the inserts before or after you started the polishing kit?
Could you give me a list of all things you used starting with the Eastwood kit, the paint you used on the inserts, etc.? Did you put new o rings on the center caps?

Thanks,
Scott
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I'm interested in these questions as well ... especially the clearcoat..
I paid hunter to do mine last year and he didn't apply the clear like I had asked.. now the rims look like shit... so they'll need to be done again...
thanks..
 
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kwick6

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Found this on Eastwood's site...

http://eastwoodco.com/cgi-bin/sgdyn...eel/aluminum_wheel.html&UID=2002041317543758"

I guess the 80 grit compound they give you to start out will get rid of the grooves? I'm not sure if I want to go and buy a machine buffer, so I might use a regular 3/8 drill.

A local guy here had his polished and I think he shot them with some Eastwood clearcoat, and had no problems. I'll check it out.

I think I have found most of the answers I need, if you want to add anything as to stuff that you used that was helpful please do.

Scott
 
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syclonekid43

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nice job the rims look sweet. i give you lots of credit for all that hard work.i use to have iroc-z rims on my blazer and i started to polish them i got to the second one and said fu*k it i ended up sellin the m it was to much work
 
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nastety92

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I went out and bought a 2500 RPM drill from Sears. That worked out good for me, and it was recommened by the Eastwood company. The Eastwood company has a wheel refinishing and polishing kit that they sell all together. I also used some other final step rouge from Sears again, b/c I thought it worked a little better. I first stripped the entire wheels with Aeromotive paint and clearcoat remover. That got everything off and a good base to start with. Once I finish polishing everything, I taped off the GMC letters and the inserts and painted each seperatly. After letting that dry, I cleared each rim with about 3-4 coats of spray on clear coat. The clear was from Autozone, I believe it was Duplicolor or someother name brand like that. As of right now, the rear wheels are holding up real well, the front rims (which were rushed) have a few spots that the clear has chipped away. I think they all would of been fine if I had spent a little more time finishing and prepping the front wheels. All in all, this was a LONG project, but definitelly worth it. I had the tires removed from the rims, I thought it was easier, but you can do it either way. I spent roughly about $175 total on all four rims. That includes the kit from the Eastwood company, remounting & balancing the rims and tires, paint & clear, and some other small items that I needed. If you have any more questions, please feel free to e-mail me at Nick7197@hotmail.com or I'm on AIM under Nick7197. Have a good one, and good luck,
Lata,
Nick
 
7dhamper

7dhamper

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Me too!

Me too!

roberto said:
nice job the rims look sweet. i give you lots of credit for all that hard work.i use to have iroc-z rims on my blazer and i started to polish them i got to the second one and said fu*k it i ended up sellin the m it was to much work
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I have IROC 16X8" rims for my '89 GMC Jimmy 4X4 "Tyclone" project. I got them for free. They were in pretty bad shape. Lots of curb rash and tons of molten break stuck to the inside. Also, 2 of 'em were filled with Fix a Flat. Yucky stuff! Since I got them for free I though I'd clean 'em up. Plus I hated the gold inserts. Tacky. I paid $100.00 to have all 4 glass bead blasted. I was surprised at how good they looked in raw alluminum, but I wasn't done yet. The different offset on my truck requires that I mount the FRONT marked rim on the rear and viec versa. Since I know dumb kids will be constantly telling me that my directional tires are gonna go bad because whatever shop I went to must have mounted my rims on backwards, I decided to grind off the letters on all 4 rims. It was pretty easy with a Dremel. For the cure for the curb rash I litterally shaved the outter lip with a razor blade. It smoothed it out to the point where it's hard for me to find where the damage was. So now I'm on the sanding process. Pain in the @$$ ! I must have over 30 hours in on this project so far and I'm no where near ready to polish yet. The hardest part is that I'm trying to shine the whole rim, even the inserts that are rough and not even machined, They look 10X better than brand new stock, but not even close to chrome. After all this I'm starting to wonder why I wanted to do this at all? I could buy right now 4 IROC aftermarket reproductions with the proper offset and no FRONT or REAR markings on the face for $200.00 each and they are triple chromed. The local chrome dipper wants that much just to dip rims. This sucks! I'm starting to think I should just charge the 18X10.5 Z06 rims and BFG G-Force tires I really want and be done with it! I slap the IROC's as is on my brother's '86 Monte Carlo LS so he can sell it quicker. It still has the 14X6 steel RS rims. UuuuuuGLY!
 
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Ty1173

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Anyone living in eastern PA there is an Eastwood store in Pottstown,PA just up the street from Walmart. They stock pretty much everything.
 
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Ty1173

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If you head north on RT 100 and make a left at the Walmart the store is just past the Walmart on your left. If you get to the T intersection you went to far.
 
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