E46 - Teenage Dream

[98z24ragtop]

It would be a pain in the ass to do that with the Style 5 spokes, but full polish would be killer. If they look as good as that belt buckle, they'd be head turners for sure.

[NathanHeeney]

I was bored and my belt buckle had some chipped paint so I thought I would make it look new again. I know this isn't anything car related but I shows how much of a difference the polish makes.


^I used more paint stripper after I got tired of trying to sand off the paint.


^I removed all the paint then sanded with a 400 grit paper.


^Brown tripoli applied.


^White diamond polish applied.


^Mother's applied.

[e46cruiser]

Looks great !
I just finished all 4 of my lips, I got the polishing kit from a local polishing shop, and
all i have to say it was so worth it. I got a great mirror like shine!

[NathanHeeney]

My polishing kit came in the mail yesterday and once I got home from the BMX track I went right to my basement. I was only able to do one lip so far. I worked on my lip and decided to mess around on Photoshop till about 2 in the morning. I had to get up at 6 for work, otherwise I probably gotten at least another lip done.




^White, Brown, Black










^Before anything was applied.


^Used paint thinner to take off the existing Mother Mag and Aluminum Polish.


^Added the brown tripoli and it looks as if it made it look a little more scuffed than what 1500 grit wet sanding did.


^Another photo of brown tripoli added.




^Added some white diamond compound. Cleaned up nicely, just a few little marks.


^Applied some Mother's, not rubbed in yet.

Comparisons

[98z24ragtop]

This thread is great, and I definitely love your pictures man! Some inspiring and awesome work, especially for a youngin', haha. Keep it up, can't wait to see the style 5's finished, I'd go with a bright silver or white too, I think those would look classy as hell.

[NathanHeeney]

Sorry about all the questions but do you know what size tire you're going to get?
I'm thing of 205/40/17 but im not quite sold on it.

That's fine! You can ask all you want. I'm going to run Falken 512's in that tire size. It's a little bit of stretch but nothing crazy.

[e46cruiser]

Sorry about all the questions but do you know what size tire you're going to get?
I'm thing of 205/40/17 but im not quite sold on it.

[hi its me alec]

Good stuff, good pics.

Whenever I sand and polish, I go all the way up to 2000 grit wet! 400 is usually the lowest I would start at. So I would recommend sanding some more before machine polishing.

[NathanHeeney]

Hey that's true, what kind of polishing wheels can you put on a drill?
All the ones I found are for angle grinders or bench grinders.

Here's what you can use.

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[NathanHeeney]

Hey that's true, what kind of polishing wheels can you put on a drill?
All the ones I found are for angle grinders or bench grinders.

Search Amazon I bet they have something that you can use if you don't want to run to the store. When I used the Turtle Wax I bought a wheel from Advanced Auto Parts and just twisted the drill head to lock onto the metal stem price that is on wheel.

[camowagon17]

love the dedication u have to building those wheels i recently sold a set i got redrilled to 4x100 for my xb


and as for the polishing bit, i used the mothers powerball with a cordless drill

[e46cruiser]

You can put polishing wheels on a corded/cordless drill or a dremel. I think that extra shine will totaly be worth it. At first I thought this would be fine but I was like hey, they are already apart. Might as well to that extra step and make them even better.

Hey that's true, what kind of polishing wheels can you put on a drill?
All the ones I found are for angle grinders or bench grinders.

[NathanHeeney]

Thanks man it looks exactly how mine does, I polished them with mothers aswell.
I guess that will have to do since I don't have any other tools to polish them.

You can put polishing wheels on a corded/cordless drill or a dremel. I think that extra shine will totaly be worth it. At first I thought this would be fine but I was like hey, they are already apart. Might as well to that extra step and make them even better.

[e46cruiser]

I'm waiting for my polishing compounds and wheels to come in but here is how it looks when polished with Turtle Wax Polish and Mag's & Aluminum Polish.

Thanks man it looks exactly how mine does, I polished them with mothers aswell.
I guess that will have to do since I don't have any other tools to polish them.

[NathanHeeney]

I like how descriptive you are.

check my thread out?
my sig isnt working : |

Thanks! I've scoured over your thread. I'm so jealous of your road stars. I wish I had a set.