I just finished them, they took about 2 hours each, maybe a little less. I did one every saturday morning for 4 weeks. , a ton of elbow grease, steel wool/soap combo and a little black rustoleum paint
BEFORE

AFTER

 

Awesome bro!

 

GOTTA RIDE RIMZ!!!! lol good job i wanna do my valve cover one day but who cares no one see's under my hood but me!!!

did the steel whool scratch any?

this took me 3 hours with a polisher half a container of mothers mag polish with the wheel off... i got through with it and just said forget it and wiped the others down one time...

 

^^^ Always one upping...

 

I spent six hours each polishing some 14's and then they didn't even fit on my 350Z

 

Sweet looking.

 

i polished a valve cover once, sucked ***** doing. but looked good

 

i bet if you had polished them a little longer they would have fit...

 

Maybe I should polish my Rota wheels made out of iron.

 

The steel wool didn't scratch much at all, I'm very pleased with the results. They are by no means perfect, but you can only notice defects if you look really closely at the rims (little pits etc, I didn't really care about them because thats hours upon hours).

I didn't even polish them, I just rubbed them with steel wool lol so I guess I could make them shine more

I didn't use clear coat either, every saturday I go over them for a couple minutes to keep them shiny. Last time, the clear turned green like in the before pic.

 

You actually should clearcoat them... Bare aluminum corrodes very quickly.

 

yeah I need better stuff than the $3 spray can they sell at lowes lol

 

this stuff is the **** but read everything first.....& every thing needs to be vary clean before applying.....keep in the ac not in the hot garage....

http://www.greatlakescorrosion.com/RejexX.php

 

have you guys ever saw that mag/aluminun polish they advertise at drag races? if i could have remembered the name i would have bought some...

 

mothers or rolite?

there was also one that started with 1000 but I forget the rest.

http://www.topoftheline.com/electricpolishingball.html

^^ I was thinking about purchasing one of those, they are made from felt instead of the typical foam ones and would probably work well.

any opinions?

 

ROFL!

All he needs to do is polish up the brakes on his 350 until the 14" wheels go on...

 

http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/...6ff0a57db519b5

 

Excellent link! Even has a free pdf download book.