Fully Polished Custom Alloys

[andy_wh2000]

This is a simple but time comsuming DIY wheel polishing project that I did with my saturn. Just took some stock aluminum alloys, stripped the paint on them, sanded out the factory swirl texture with 600 and then 800 on a d/a, wet sanded with 1000, 1500, and 2000, then polished them with mother's power ball and aluminum polish, hand polished with mother's aluminum/mag polish, and finished it off with mother's billet polish. Then I painted the holes with a base coat of black and a light mist of a dark charcoal metallic. The project took me about a week spending an hour or two per day to finish and turned out fantastic.

stock finish:


Painted:


fully polished:


mounted:

[linefire]

dude that really is nice looking.. props on that

[Plastic Fury]

You did a damn good job on those alloys.

My only question would be why that style, why not the 95 SC2 or 97-98 SC2 alloys??

Regardless, nice work.

[aeroblu22]

very nice job. how often are ya gonna haveta re-polish em?

BTW, dialup FTL

[lilcraigford]

Wow... should be a good winter project! On the same boat as Plastic Fury, not exactly my top pick of wheels!

[andy_wh2000]

my mom totalled her 97 sl2 and so it was a free set of rims to work on. and my old alloys were curbed to death.

[Anonymous]

zomg you stole my idea.. i'm so taking your ass to court for copyright infringement.

but actually, the polish holds up very well. I havent polished my wheels in a couple months and they look fine. Just a very good initial coat of polish ( i used mothers billet polish) and it should protect the wheels really good.

this is the only pic i could find on my computer right now:



but brake dust is a real bitch, just gotta clean em every now and then

[Plastic Fury]

but actually, the polish holds up very well. I havent polished my wheels in a couple months and they look fine. Just a very good initial coat of polish ( i used mothers billet polish) and it should protect the wheels really good.

Yeah, the '95 SC2 alloy is much more aggressive looking and you did a damn nice job on them too.


The '95SC2 and the second gen SC2 wheels are the ones to polish for sure.

[Silent Bob]

I actually like his pick. Personally I think those 3 spokes look better on the coupes

[Sprint]

Beautiful job.

-Allan.

[andy_wh2000]

ralliart you need to quit complaining. j/k. I might have finished my old wheels but they were too messed up. and by all means anyone else can go ahead with those sc wheels. I'm not stopping you.

[Anonymous]

i started this project with my sawtooths, but never finished lol. Its actually sitting in my garage collecting dust. BTW what's a DA?

[andy_wh2000]

dual action sander. this was my old set but they were in terrible shape as it was and I never put the effort into them as I did with these. If I had a good set I would do them again the right way.

[lilcraigford]

I've gotta say, looking at that picture... your car looks mint!

[linefire]

i need a set of alloys for about 3 months