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My first attempt at refinishing 3 piece wheels - props to Mike36 for stripping the chrome and polishing the lips for me.
This is how I bought them, fairly major pitting in the chrome on the lips
All the chrome stripped off faces and lips
Polished lips and bare faces
Fresh out of powdercoating, color is Sunken Treasure
After final assembly. Wheels are double staggered 17x8.5 and 18x9.5
17"
18"
17" and 18"
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I have a thread with my BBS LM refinish but I figured I would post it in here as well. I sold the Audi and really don't know if I'll have a car for these anytime soon so I'm considering selling them. It will be tough though.
I bought the wheels used and they weren't in the best shape.
I took them apart and polished the lips. First I chemically stripped them then hand polished each one. Each lip took about 6 hours from start to finish.
lips polished
Then it was time to start on the faces. I decided to do a thorough sandblast and clear coat them. I thought this would be a neat finish and be pretty unique. One of my good friends has his own sandblast cabinet, power coat gun/oven, compressor, etc. so I did them over at his place. Each face took around 4 hours of thorough sandblasting to completely strip everything evenly. It was a huge PITA. We then powder coated them with 40% clear.
Here's one sandblasted without clear coat vs one that was cleared and cured. The clear definitely darkened them up a bit.
All 4 done.
Closeup of the finish
Cleaned up all 80 bolts
Started putting them back together.
Had my friend mount and balance the tires.
Then mounted up
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My HRE 943R.
20x9" and 20x10". 2.5" and 3.5" lips respectively. Faces powdercoated candy teal.
I got these in terrible shape. Fixed the barrels the best I could and polished the lips that weren't bent. 60-80-120-220-400-600-800-1000-1500-3000 grit sanding and wetsandng, and then polish. Nuts and bolts soaked in vinegar and all scrubbed by hand. New center caps too.
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Set of RH ZW1's I'm refinishing currently.
Started life as 8.5 x 17 and 10 x 17 and will be 10 x 17 and 11.25 x 17 once finished.
How I picked them up:
Split them:
Some cleanup:
Polished the lips:
[img]http://abload.de/img/img_7154yrljh.jpg/img]
Painted the faces white and the barrels black:
Front wheels nearly done. Still need new hardware and still waiting on the 4.5" lips for the rear wheels.
I just picked up another set today, this time in 8x17... we'll see how I end up refurbing this.
'87 Porsche 944 S | Ex-E36 Touring (2009 - 2016) | Daily: '02 Chrysler Sebring
www.bastienbochmann.de | Tief & Breit
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And with manly lips.
'87 Porsche 944 S | Ex-E36 Touring (2009 - 2016) | Daily: '02 Chrysler Sebring
www.bastienbochmann.de | Tief & Breit
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OZ Futura Step Up
Original Specs:
17 x 8.5 et56
17 x 9.0 et50
5x130
Built in 1993
New Specs:
18 x 9.5 et29 (All around)
5x112
Check out my build here if you're curious for more:
My Road To Futura: OZ Build/Timeline
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