Finished Refurbing My Wheels And Calipers!!

Hay all.

Ok as some of your know through my previous threads i was plannig on refurbishing my wheels and repainting my brake calipers.

Well during my week off i spent from Wednesday through to Sunday working very hard on them with blisters on my hand ans all muscles aching i think it was worth it!

Were is some before, during and after pics for you lot to have a look at

Some of the equipment:

Wheels Before:

Stiping the wheels and cleaning and replacing all rim bolts:

The result of tightening 160 bolts as tight and i could with a socket set:

Repainted the calipers back withe a blue Supra sticker with silver outer:

Respayed the centre caps silver and new logos for the inners:

And the Finished Result!

nice job, ive just done mine ,i thought my arms were gonna drop off .what did you use to seal the polished lips ?

where did you get the centre cap logos from

Good work fella. Looks ace!!

nice job, ive just done mine ,i thought my arms were gonna drop off .what did you use to seal the polished lips ?

 

where did you get the centre cap logos from

i havent as only only rubbed down 2 lips... one lip hasnt been sealed fora while but as i polish my wheels once a week anyway i will be happy without sealing them

Really good job there matey !

What brand are those discs? Have never seen grooved discs with those 2nd grooves around the outer edges. Strange!

very good job there fella.

You have a woman's hand my lord! ..... Blackadder (Tom Baker)

They look like new.

Great job!

Is there a good way of removing all the lacquer from the alloys as the ones on mine are peeling and would be good to try and strip it all off to re-do?

when sanding the wheels does it matter what motion you do? can you do it in a circular motion or should you stick with back and forth?

Really good job there matey !

 

What brand are those discs? Have never seen grooved discs with those 2nd grooves around the outer edges. Strange!

DBA disks mate. Im very impressed with them so far!

Thanks for all the nice coments every one

Is there a good way of removing all the lacquer from the alloys as the ones on mine are peeling and would be good to try and strip it all off to re-do?

I used a drill with a sanding attachment! becarful not to puch to hard! i did and made an indent so i have to smoth them off.

With the drill attachment i went side to side!

That all looks good. Nice one! I stick with the view that red calipers would've looked better, though...

looks great fella top job and suits the car well:)

thanks mate

Looks great:d

Where did you get the stainless steel polish kit from and does it fit in a drill or only a dremel.

Also were did you get the Supra decals with the outline, they look:cool:

They look great mate but didn't you use a torque wrench to tighten all the bolts, its very easy to over tighten these size rim screws and then stretch the threads.

I've had a search and it looks like 24/26 ft/lbs of torque is recomended for the 2 piece BBS LM rim bolts

yer i just did them as tight as i can, bearing in mind there not rim bolts i used. I used normal M8 stainless steel bolts with zink plated nuts.

The polishing kit is for drills and it came from halfords £16.99 but i'll be honest....its pretty naff! lol

The supra stickers came from my local graphics maker "ant graphics" only set me back £4. i do get on with them well so they always help me out with the price!

Looks awesome

very very nice work there, but im just not keen on the blue rims, id of gone for black or silver rims with a blue lip:) but once you like it, thats all that matters mate:)