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> My first attempt at Refinishing and Polishing 914 Fuchs
74porsche914
post Mar 29 2012, 12:08 PM
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What do you guys think of my first set of wheels I refinished? I am pretty happy with the way they turned out, especially for a 20 year old! Please no comments about how I shouldn't have painted the inserts. I think painted inserts look better on certain cars and my car is a driver so I'm not going for a factory look anyway.

Steps I used for Refinishing:

First I removed the anodizing using Easy-Off oven cleaner. I did two coats for around 35 minutes for each. Then I began sanding the pedals using a DA 6" rotational sander with 220, 400, and 600. These were very pitted on my wheels and using a DA sander saved a ton of time and really planed them out nicely. I next moved on to dry sanding the lips. I used 80, 120, 220, 320, and 400 grit. This was the longest and most agonizing part of the wheels. Next, I dry sanded the pedals and flats with 400 grit. After this I moved onto wet sanding the lips and pedals with 400, 600, 1000, 1500, 2000, and 3000. I did all the lips first then moved onto pedals. After this I masked and sprayed the back parts of the wheels with silver. Then I began the polishing process using a wool car buffer pad and Mother's polishing compound (power ball compound). Next, I used a power ball mini to get areas unaccesable by the buffer and went over the pedals again. Finally, I masked the polished areas and sprayed the inserts. This entire process took over 60 hours and pretty much wrecked my hands. Worth it though!

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post Mar 29 2012, 12:11 PM
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post Mar 29 2012, 12:12 PM
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I try and get some better pics of them on the car once I get back home from school.
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post Mar 29 2012, 12:15 PM
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Looks Nice - Just a Warning, now peeps are going to want to know how you did it
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post Mar 29 2012, 12:15 PM
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Looks Grrrrrrrreat!

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post Mar 29 2012, 01:16 PM
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looks awesome (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif) !!!! ............. when can you do my fuchs (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) ???
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post Mar 29 2012, 01:20 PM
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Very nice!
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post Mar 29 2012, 03:04 PM
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QUOTE(carr914 @ Mar 29 2012, 11:15 AM) *

Looks Nice - Just a Warning, now peeps are going to want to know how you did it


Yeah...what he said.

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post Mar 29 2012, 03:11 PM
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Great job!
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post Mar 29 2012, 03:45 PM
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how did you do that? couldn't resist and actually need to do mine.
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post Mar 29 2012, 04:11 PM
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post Mar 29 2012, 04:12 PM
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Looks great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)
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post Mar 29 2012, 04:16 PM
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why would you paint the inserts?!?








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post Mar 29 2012, 04:24 PM
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Looks very nice, It is a crap load of work. I did the same job, after about 6 months I decided I did not like the black inserts and removed the black and polished again

I was tired of a super bling shine and chips of paint missing in the black (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

You did an excellent job (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

I have pictures of how I did mine in my blog, yours look better though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/first.gif)
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post Mar 29 2012, 04:51 PM
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post Mar 29 2012, 05:25 PM
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I edited my initial post to include the refinishing process.
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post Mar 29 2012, 05:26 PM
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Very nice. You did a great job.
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post Mar 30 2012, 08:49 AM
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Wow ! Fantastic. I started down this path several years ago but ended up taking themo Al Reed in Anaheim, CA

And, thanks for including how-to. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

BTW- What is a DA sander ?
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post Mar 30 2012, 10:50 AM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) ... nice job - esp. for 1st try!

BTW .... 20 or 60 doesn't matter as much as how much experience doing it! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)

The only thing about the black backgrounds for those of you which prefer them, is that a set of "real" Fuchs 2L alloys will get mistaken for the cheaper repros which are all produced with black backgrounds AFAIK - so many will assume your real are knockoffs!

.... aside from the paint chipping noted above.

FYI - the satin background of the original finish can be achieved by masking the polished parts then bead blasting (carefully so as to not blast thru the masking material, which has to be heavier/stronger than that used for painting.

Also FYI - the original finish was anodized after polishing & the the less polished or bead blasted backgrounds were finished, which knocks the shine down maybe 20% but gives you a much more durable surface which is more resistant to road grime & acidic brake dust.
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post Mar 30 2012, 01:28 PM
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Those turned out really well. Nice job!
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