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Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 20 2005, 10:43 PM

Well,
I got these today.
Only one was polished like the picture.
Soooooo
4 hours later they all look like this now.

Paint was already stripped. But they had 30+ years of stuff on them. So lots of elbow grease and lots of sandpaper.
400 grit sandpaper
600 grit
1000 grit
1500 grit
Then a electric random orbital polisher and lots of Blue Cream mag wheel polish.

Next a nice coat of wax and there you have it.

Pretty nice for track wheels, huh?

Thanks to Tony A. for my new acquisition

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Posted by: nebreitling Aug 21 2005, 12:48 AM

WAY too nice for track wheels!

Posted by: Joe Ricard Aug 21 2005, 02:26 AM

Yep thems Purdy, They will make terrific track wheels. What tires you gonna put on them? Open track or Autocross. (it makes a diference)

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 09:06 AM

Probably Vracers to start. Good compromise tire for AX and TT/DE.
Maybe a 2nd set of wheels (7 inch steelies) with Hoosiers for AX later on.
I was very pleased with the wheels. They aren't perfect but they look pretty good from 2 feet away. Just right for track wheels. They didn't look bad after the 1000 grit paper, but I wanted them all to match so had to go to the polisher and lots of mag wheel polish.
Oh well, nothing better to do on a Sat afternoon when there is no AX or TT to attend.

Posted by: grantsfo Aug 21 2005, 09:22 AM

I thought you were converting to 5 lug? Did you change your mind?

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 09:31 AM

4 lug for now....then 5 lug possibly at the end of next season. I want to try a few things with the 4 lugs first. Just depends on what I find over the next couple of months. A good friend of mine is converting his BR 914 to front coil overs and he has a complete 5 lug conversion he wants me to have. So when he gets around to making the change I will too.
Right now he is busy building a new, very hot motor.
Next thing for my car is PAINT.
Body man is going to clean up the few places of surface rust, weld up all the little extra holes from crappy mirrors, rear reflectors and warts and do a complete skim coat, block sand and 2 stage paint job. Smooth the top and paint to match car. Sand and Paint all rockers and front and rear valances.

Posted by: J P Stein Aug 21 2005, 09:39 AM

Nice, but I hate polishing wheels

Posted by: grantsfo Aug 21 2005, 09:46 AM

QUOTE (Dan (Almaden Valley) @ Aug 21 2005, 07:31 AM)
4 lug for now....then 5 lug possibly at the end of next season. I want to try a few things with the 4 lugs first. Just depends on what I find over the next couple of months. A good friend of mine is converting his BR 914 to front coil overs and he has a complete 5 lug conversion he wants me to have. So when he gets around to making the change I will too.
Right now he is busy building a new, very hot motor.
Next thing for my car is PAINT.
Body man is going to clean up the few places of surface rust, weld up all the little extra holes from crappy mirrors, rear reflectors and warts and do a complete skim coat, block sand and 2 stage paint job. Smooth the top and paint to match car. Sand and Paint all rockers and front and rear valances.

What dispacement for the engine? Are you building to BP or its equivelent in the new classing scheme?

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 12:28 PM

BP for now...when I do a complete rebuild then I will decide. I might keep it 2L but do some internal polishing and porting, and bump the compression a bit. My engine guru knows some tricks so we will see.

The new points system has no equivalent to any of our current classes.
A BP car will end up running against fairly stock 993s etc. At AX no problem...on the track at TT----big problem. I love 914s but a BP 2.0L running against a well driven 993 even on street tires at a track like Laguna. No contest...give me the 993, or Boxster or several other cars that will end up in the same points class...say 450-500 points.

The adhoc comm. that is proposing the points system has no answer for that situation and many others.

That is another entire thread!

Posted by: nebreitling Aug 21 2005, 12:54 PM

it is another thread, but i agree with you, Dan. the AX point system is pretty good, i think, but the TT system could use some, errrr, refinement...

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 03:36 PM

Here are some pics of all 4 polished and waxed and ready to mount some sticky tires.

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Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 03:37 PM

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Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 03:38 PM

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Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 03:38 PM

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Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 03:39 PM

last one

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Posted by: RustyWa Aug 21 2005, 03:42 PM

Did you work on the recessed areas at all? If so, what did you do.

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 04:25 PM

No, PO had stripped all of the black paint. I don't think he did any thing else to the black (recessed ) areas. Other than that all effort was on paddles and rims.

Posted by: Midtowner Aug 21 2005, 09:53 PM

Hmmm, call me brain-dead but did you apply the sandpaper/polish to the recessed, anodized sections? BTW, the wheels look fantastic!

Posted by: Dan (Almaden Valley) Aug 21 2005, 09:57 PM

No sand paper or polish on recessed areas. Only to paddles and rim of each wheel.

Posted by: scrz914 Aug 21 2005, 10:24 PM

Way to go Dan! I can't believe how fast you attacked all four wheels. I think it tool me two Saturdays to finish just one (first picture), and you finished the rest in one day? It's amazing how well alloys polish up.
BTW, the recesses still have the original anodizing (I'm guessing), very tough stuff. I was just going to tape them off and spray wheel silver over them.
Congrats.

Tony