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Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:34 PM
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wheel refinishing

heres what me and my friend did for 8 hours yesterday. we sanded down 2 of the iroc wheels til they were perfect and painted them. damn they look good. ok heres how we did it. started out with 80 or 100 grit on all the really bad spots and worked our way up to 180 and then 320. each of us did 1 wheel so seeing that it took 8 hours we must have done an amazing job haha. i used that duplicolor wheel coating. silver metallic and than i used the clear they make for wheels. pictures from top to bottom are in order of sanding one wheel, cleaning it, 1st coat, 2nd coat, 3rd coat and than clear coat. when i feel like it im going to make the lip and the upper most part of the spokes black
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Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:36 PM
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nice job, looks good.
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:39 PM
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nice job...only two more to go i wish i could get my friends to help me with that kind of work that takes forever and isn't alot of fun
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:50 PM
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thanks guys. yeah we worked our asses off but i changed his spark plugs today so now were even
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:53 PM
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Looks good.
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 04:55 PM
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suprisingly that turned out really good! nice work matt
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 05:05 PM
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Im not meaning to be picky... but I think you should have put a few more coats on there. Look at the pictures right before you mounted them. Unless you did more spraying after those pics, then you can still see some red...

But regardless it looks pretty good for rattlecan!
Old Apr 1, 2007 | 05:38 PM
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Old Apr 1, 2007 | 06:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Phate
Im not meaning to be picky... but I think you should have put a few more coats on there. Look at the pictures right before you mounted them. Unless you did more spraying after those pics, then you can still see some red...

But regardless it looks pretty good for rattlecan!
yeah you are correct. i should have done at least one more coat. theres one little spot that turned out kinda pink but you wouldn't see it unless you looked really hard for it. ill fix that when i get some black on there.
thanks everyone
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Old Apr 2, 2007 | 03:25 AM
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yea looks better than i would have expected but yea i did see the spot that phate saw too
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