Refinishing Work Meister S1 3P "progress thread"- need some help too!

[05subysti]

looks good, now we are twins

[electricalbox]

Looking good!

[Sirhodjibob]

Well I got antsy and just went through my own way..Just elbow grease and mothers. I tried using the dremel but it was giving an uneven polish.

Unfortunately my drill is 3 hours away at my parent's house, will definitely use it for the next lip. This one still needs a little more polishing but I'm pretty please with how it turned out.

[05subysti]

Buy a meguir's polishing dynacone, and use it with an electric drill. That will have the high enough rpms to get a polished look, cutting the elbow grease in half.

Also spend more time sanding a making sure theres no sanding marks. Cause I can still see some in my lips but I'm glad how they came out.

It'd be cool if you color matched the faces Suzuka blue

[Sirhodjibob]

Here's how it is now

[Sirhodjibob]

na, won't need that much sanding IMO. don't be discouraged.

Thanks for all your help man.

I've got the first lip completely wet sanded, did 320-400-600-800-1000-1500-2000. Looks nice and smooth now with no scratches but dull.

So I have some brown polishing compound that came with my dremel kit that I bought a couple years ago. Can I/Should I use it? Or should I go straight to the Mothers mag & aluminum polish I have? Should I apply the mothers with the dremel and a buffing wheel or do it by hand?

[C.Johnston]

na, won't need that much sanding IMO. don't be discouraged.

[Sirhodjibob]

Spoke decals, centering rings, and uber cool license plate frame arrived. I'm official now haha

[Sirhodjibob]

Got the powdercoat stripped off the 1st lip



Gonna need a lot of sanding...




Preview

[Sirhodjibob]

you can get it like that but you need to do it right.. is that powder or paint on your wheels? if it's paint, id strip with dumond safe strip.. if it's powder, get it blasted with walnut, not sand, it's less abrasive and will cause you less work to get the pock marks from sandblasting out.

after you start sanding (if there are casting marks start lower, if it's pretty slick you can probably do 800 or 1000) then, finish with 1500 wet and 2000 wet.. once that is all done you can do two things....
1) hit it with a series of mops and polishing rouge or.......
2) use Diamond Brite Truck Box polish. http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...er=628871_0_0_

here is two examples 1) i have done with mops, the 2) with just 1500 wet then the diamond brite.

It's powdercoat. I'm using Jasco to strip it off...they didn't have any aircraft stripper at the Lowes I went to. However it seems to be working ok, although a bit more time consuming than I had hoped for.

I'm roughly following this guide for polishing
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw9bBQwAgOI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw9bBQwAgOI[/ame]

I have some Mothers mag & aluminum polish I'm going to hit it with when I'm done.

You suck! i was literally about to post a diy thread for work meisters.... i disassembled mine, wire brush all silicon off. Wet sanded lips 220-2500, polished with turtle wax polish compound, then mothers mag polish. also have tunershop usa m7x32mm gold hardware. faces are pearl white with adams gold top coat, new valve stems, inner barrels are now painted black aswell. As for the face mounting, mine are r disk and were all reverse mounted. so i have the same markings from the lock nuts, its fine.
here are my pics.

Wow those look awesome! I wish I could fit lips like that on my S2000. Please don't let my thread stop you from making yours, I would love to see how you did it and I'm sure there's a lot I could learn.

I **** to say it, but I also ordered gold bolts for mine lol. Although my centers are a different shade of white- it's Honda's championship white, so it has a slight cream tint to it.

[05subysti]

You suck! i was literally about to post a diy thread for work meisters.... i disassembled mine, wire brush all silicon off. Wet sanded lips 220-2500, polished with turtle wax polish compound, then mothers mag polish. also have tunershop usa m7x32mm gold hardware. faces are pearl white with adams gold top coat, new valve stems, inner barrels are now painted black aswell. As for the face mounting, mine are r disk and were all reverse mounted. so i have the same markings from the lock nuts, its fine.

[C.Johnston]

you can get it like that but you need to do it right.. is that powder or paint on your wheels? if it's paint, id strip with dumond safe strip.. if it's powder, get it blasted with walnut, not sand, it's less abrasive and will cause you less work to get the pock marks from sandblasting out.

after you start sanding (if there are casting marks start lower, if it's pretty slick you can probably do 800 or 1000) then, finish with 1500 wet and 2000 wet.. once that is all done you can do two things....
1) hit it with a series of mops and polishing rouge or.......
2) use Diamond Brite Truck Box polish. http://www.autozone.com/autozone/acc...er=628871_0_0_

here is two examples 1) i have done with mops, the 2) with just 1500 wet then the diamond brite.
1)

2)

[Sirhodjibob]

[Sirhodjibob]

Is anybody familiar with Work Wheels' Metal Buff Finish? Would I be able to replicate that kind of shine in a garage job or am I wasting my time? What is it that makes that finish look so special?

[Sirhodjibob]

So I spent today using a can of Jasco to strip the powdercoat off the lip- it works, albeit very slowly and painfully. The cold weather definitely is not helping.

Only question is should I just polish the lips or just go all out and polish the faces too? Here is the car it's going on, front lip is already in the mail.




As you can see, the white faces don't look bad, but polished would look so blingtastic lol
These are 2 piece Miesters: