Pizzas!

[BobD]

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looks good. I put a set of pizzas on my green 92 Shadow ES back in the day and did the same thing with the gold.

You've got me thinking now. Those pizzas look great. I was thinking about selling the 94 "Green" Sundance and pulling the 16 Pumpers off. I was going to put a set of crabs on it but do have a set of Pizzas I could polish up. Hmmmm.
I wish there were more hours in the day. I am getting the garage cleaned up tonight. Maybe when I free up some space I can make my rim machine.
Get those things on a car so we can see how they look. How much time total would you guess you have in the one rim?

[RGHoskins]

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Originally Posted by BobD You've got me thinking now. Those pizzas look great. I was thinking about selling the 94 "Green" Sundance and pulling the 16 Pumpers off. I was going to put a set of crabs on it but do have a set of Pizzas I could polish up. Hmmmm. I wish there were more hours in the day. I am getting the garage cleaned up tonight. Maybe when I free up some space I can make my rim machine. Get those things on a car so we can see how they look. How much time total would you guess you have in the one rim?

I had that car back in 94 and I've moved like 4 times since then. If I can happen to find a pic, I'll send it to you. I put the pizzas on there because I had ARE's on my plum crazy SC and wanted 15's on the ES. It looked pretty good.

[BobD]

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I had that car back in 94 and I've moved like 4 times since then. If I can happen to find a pic, I'll send it to you. I put the pizzas on there because I had ARE's on my plum crazy SC and wanted 15's on the ES. It looked pretty good.

Yeah, do that. I'd like to see what it would look like. Thanks

[scuderiasteve]

nice

[nemesismachine]

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Originally Posted by BobD How much time total would you guess you have in the one rim?

Probably about 5-6 hours. Nothing but the king of beers and some CSI reruns to fuel the progress.

[shelbyman]

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Originally Posted by nemesismachine Probably about 5-6 hours. Nothing but the king of beers and some CSI reruns to fuel the progress.

Can you review the process it took to get them that nice!!!

Awesome looking !!

[nemesismachine]

Review? No Problem. Here we go.

Got them as you see in the 1st picture, fresh from the outdoors. Dirt in the lugnut holes (some), and the clearcoat peeling. I used Eastwood's "PRE" to clean off the vulcanized rubber and years of gunk on the inside of the rim. That with the wire wheel worked nicely. Same with the back side of the rim, cleaned all the brake dust and junk off there.

-I noticed the machining grooves in the wheel and didn't have any acid to dip them in to clean them up and keep the grooves, so I just sanded all of them off.

-Started with a wire wheel, and cleaned all the loose clearcoat off the wheel as best I could. I used the bottom of a barstool without the seat part (just a frame) and the wheel fit perfect.

-Used a random orbital sander with 320 grit paper and sanded the wheel face, bead, and lip. All of the machining marks got sanded off. Elapsed time: 3 hours

-Moved up to 400 grit, wet sanding with my ipod and frosty alcoholic beverages to pass the time. Yes, I have CSI on my ipod. Along with all 4 seasons of The Office. \m/ Sanded just enough to get the swirl marks from the 320 off. Elapsed time: 1 hour

-Moved up to 800 grit, same routine. Sanded enough to remove the deeper scratches from the rougher paper. Elapsed time: 1 hour

-Moved up to 1000 grit Elapsed time: 1 hour

-Moved up to 1500 grit. Elapsed time: 45 minutes

-Moved up to 2000 grit. No need to spend a lot of time with this paper, it's like sanding with copier paper. Elapsed time: 20 minutes.

-Let the wheel dry, and helped it with a chamois cloth (prounounced shammy, sham-moy for those more articulated types). Used Mothers aluminum and mag polish, on the applicator and on the rim to let sit for around 10-15 minutes (it'll turn black)

-Used a harbor freight orbital polisher to remove it. Elapsed time: 15 minutes

Total time per wheel: Around 7.5 hours. My initial estimate was a bit off.

When I get all of the wheels done I am coating them with POR-15 Glisten PC. This should prevent me from having to keep repolishing the wheels every week. I'll post pics up afterwards.

POR-15 Depot - POR15*::*Clear Coats*::*POR-15 Glisten PC - Quart

[nemesismachine]

[detobias]

SWEET !!!

you rock ! nicest pizza's I've seen since 1986