Introducing: The Least Stanced Car on Stanceworks!

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Introducing: The Least Stanced Car on Stanceworks!

Those swirls are from sanding, you probably have to go back to the 600 and sand them out. If you have polishing rouge you can use that after the 600 grit....

[StanceDatSucka]

never thought white walls would look so nice on a 245

[ro@dster_kevin]

I love bricks. Keep going man!

[Thom]

What sand papers did you use and how fine a polish did you use mang? Generally a microfiber pad will work well with that tho.

[danielsahhhn]

sooo much minty freshness..
new wheels are gonna be radddd

[Z33_Taxi]

Oooo another 200 wagon. Almost twins

Super Jelly off the the blood red interior.

So did you just cut Kaphlenke normal struts into short struts?

Sub'd

[M30]

Loving this.

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[GroceryGetter67]

well I got some more work done. These wheels have been taking forever, but it's definitely worth it! Hopefully now that I'm on spring break I can get them completed before class starts in a week! Anyways, pictures!

Got some goodies in the mail from Kaphlenke for my coilovers


And picked up some more goodies from IPD, poly bushings for some random suspension bits


And got back to work on the wheels, picked up some stronger stripper and it did the trick




starting to sand the lip


all done, did 320, 600, 1000, 1500, and then 2000 grit


Then I hit it with Heavy Metal Polish and the mothers PowerCone and here's where I could use some help from you guys. It seemed to work well except for that there are swirl scratch marks when you look closely and I don't know if it's from the PowerCone or from the polish I used or the fact that I skipped the bars and went straight to the polish, any thoughts? I've never done this before and really want to do it right.

[Oh Damn, it's Sam]

Dichloromethane and benzl alcohol are both rumored to do an excellent job removing powder coat. Both are pretty damn toxic, so wear PPE if you try them.

[GroceryGetter67]

Well just a small update from the weekend. I ran into a little snag when starting to refinish the wheels but I won't actually have time to work on this again until finals are over in two weeks so I figured I'd post what I worked on to see if anybody could give me some advice on what to do.

First off I got the adapters in, which was very exciting! But with the limited time I had, I wanted to get started on refinishing the wheels instead of testing what they would look like on the car.


So I started off by scuffing the whole surface with 400 grit and then applied the stripper. After a half hour nothing was really bubbling up and the lips weren't bubbling at all either which made me think that there wasn't actually a layer of clear coat on them anymore. After an hour I applied a second coat and let it sit for another hour and still nothing really changed. So I'm guessing that these were powdercoated and that's why it is not really budging with the stripper I'm using, which would also explain why there isn't clear coat on the lips either, somebody before me must have refinished them with polished lips at one point. Does anybody have any good advice for strippers for powdercoat? I was reading up on google and it seems like Rustoleum Aircraft Remover should do the trick but I won't be able to try it out until spring break.

right after applying the first coat


after an hour


and this is with the second layer on, it didn't remove anymore than this

[Keith602]

Looking forward to seeing the wheels on! Should look awesome

[GroceryGetter67]

Old volvo on mesh wheels?

Cant wait to see it all together

don't worry, I won't judge haha

[joshg51]

Old volvo on mesh wheels?

Cant wait to see it all together

[GroceryGetter67]

Holy shit, this thing is mint! I'm sub'd!!! Really love the headlight configuration on the volvo from this era, a lot better than those big square ones haha

Thanks! Yea I love the single rounds, going to be getting the Hella H4 conversion headlights soon too

Shit yeah, Portland!

Looking forward to seeing this come together!

Rip City baby! Hopefully you'll be seeing this thing rollin around by spring/summer

[BrandonMcKiernan]

been seeing more and more oregon niggazzz on here. Looks good dude! maybe ill see it sometime.