The shaved 88 Shitaco

[canimuff]

u are one babely pube, assy

[rice4life]

We found out your real identity...


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Coincidence?

I think not!

[Chuckdee]

So you've turned black? lololol

good shit!

[SebastienPeek]

Which caused this

Ahaha day has been made.

Have had the same thing happen to me, but instead I was working on an engine, not polishing wheels!

[harlerocco]

Lol, how the hell did your face get that dark?

1.25hp buffer spinning at 3300rpm shooting aluminum dust and compound in my face.

[theseeker411]

Lol, how the hell did your face get that dark?

[harlerocco]

Got another one done





Which caused this



Installed the bumper trim too

[harlerocco]

I'm love a wheel rebuild, so please, continue lol.

will do

thanks for the compliments sir. bbs e78 centers off an old pcar

build looks great, keep up the good work

Thanks Fraser, the e78's have been noted, don't think I've ever seen a set of them before.

DEM RIMZZZyo

yo <3

JKJK Awesome job man keep up the hard work.

haha it often feels that way, but even if no one gave a damn I'm doing the build for me anyways.


The car was supposed to be back last week so I could start putting it back together upon the completion of my finals. Would have been the perfect thing after a stressful semester. Alas I got a text from the shop owner that pushed the return of the Shitaco back another week. I'm expecting it on Friday, but who knows. SoWo is looking less likely for it, and that really irks me since this place has had my car since FEBRUARY 25TH! The original deadline was March 8th... So I'm about fed up, especially because I paid them half already.

[kittenpuncher]

JKJK Awesome job man keep up the hard work.

[C-Hutch]

DEM RIMZZZyo

[DrFraserCrane]

got what look to be e75 or e76's

thanks for the compliments sir. bbs e78 centers off an old pcar

build looks great, keep up the good work

[Chuckdee]

I'm love a wheel rebuild, so please, continue lol.

[harlerocco]

Gold centers on red are going to look so good

Not a super original look, but something no one does to these cars in particular.

Finished my last final this morning after spending the night in the Library here at the University of Kentucky. It sucked, and I took a nice nap afterwards but I was right back up and working on the wheels at around 3. I texted the shop owner to see what progress has been made this week... no reply. Hopefully I'll know more tomorrow.

Did a random bunch of things today/tonight on the wheels. I couldn't really stick to one thing :P

Got 3 waffle caps in the mail today, still need to buy the 4th. Got a great deal on only 3 I couldn't pass up.





I used the Eastwood gold wheel paint on one of the waffles just to try it out. Definitely going to need it thicker and clear coat, it's rather dull without it.



Next up I messed with the bolts. This is seriously a budget build I'm doing everything on the cheap... which means reusing the original bolts. They were in absolute shit condition so I purchased a brass wire wheel and utilized the buffer I've been using on the lips... here's what happened:







Before and after. Still need to clear them since OE RS bolts are steel and will rust again if not cleared in some way.



Back of the faces were caked in shit. Used a 3M rubber wheel and knocked the mounting pad to bare aluminum and stripped all the old built up gunk off the backside so I could get a good surface to paint on (...soon).





Worked on another lip. Stripped all the clear, sanded with 150 grit and again at 320. I then used the bench buffer the same way I did the first lip, but it didn't turn out so well. I'm pretty sure the wheel is absolutely beat so I'm picking up some more tomorrow morning and having another go at it.





That's all for now. Hopefully I can get all the bolts done and that other lip polished by tomorrow afternoon.

P.S. Sorry this has turned into a wheel build thread as of late... For those that don't know me, I love wheels. Working on and refinishing rimzos is one of my favorite things to do. Hopefully I'll have some actual car content in here soon.

[canimuff]

Gold centers on red are going to look so good

[harlerocco]

Hasn't been much going on this week. Haven't heard anything from the bodyshop so I'm starting to doubt it will be back this week. Also it's finals week so nothing has been done besides studying.

I put the 1" lip I polished on an RS207 face with a Bugatti cap to get an idea of how my wheels will look. I'll be using those logo caps but the hex caps (when I get the right ones for the 001's) will be polished and the faces will have fresh (not faded) gold.