Colin-mkiv

These are pseudo splits and are polished (or rather diamondcut) and laquered. All you do is wet and dry the laquer off, 800 grit and plenty of soap in the water, use hairy lipsquid for this. Then, when you can see that the laquer is gone and you're down to bare ally, clean them off and inspect the pitted areas. Some may be deeper than others so you are going to have to wet and dry these areas further, try and use longer strokes than the immediate area of the pitting, this will help avoid putting 'dips' in the surface. Next step is to use some G3 cutting compound, a lot of people may reccomend missing this step, but it will help remove any deeper scratches put in when wet and drying. Clean the wheels off again and then set to with the Metal polish, I use Autoglym stuff, but brasso etc will do the job just as well. Once you can see your face in the rims you'll need to use some panel wipe and clean any polish residue off your wheels, do a thourough job of this as the next steps will not work otherwise. Take a red Scotchbrite pad and rub down the painted areas of your wheels, we arent trying to break through the paint here, merely 'keying' the surface ready for the new laquer. Once you have got rid of ALL shinyness on the paintwork you need to give them a darned good wash off with hot non soapy water and dry them thouroughly with a paint stripper gun or similar, take care not to linger in one spot too long or you'll bubble the paint and have to do more work. then you need to mask off the back sections of the wheels. This prevents unwanted laquer getting on the insides of the wheels and then peeling off and looking unsightly in the future. I used Halfords clear coat aerosols to protect wheel rims as it goes on nice and evenly and dries quite fast too. Just apply the laquer lightly at 1st and get the 1st few coats on the lips before you do the centres letting each coat dry for around 20 mins in between, then do the whole wheel a coat at a time and turning the wheel as often as needed in order to ensure that you cover all visible parts of the wheel........allow 12 hrs drying in the house and then refit your tyres and get em back on....good as new!!

The inevitable dropouts rear their heads, there'll be 2 of us at this rate!

Take a few pics and put them up, I should be able to tell just by looking. If they're chrome and have gone all rough, chances are they're dead.

Good on em I say.

Are they chromed or polished an laquered?

100 degrees is too hot, 80 degrees is better and leave the light in for 10 mins, better safe etc!

Did he actually find it then???

I seem to get people asking me this a lot.....mostly female!! haha

I paid a fiver for my haircut, could you tell?? haha, thats the 1st time I've seen Jurgen in about 4 or 5 yrs and the 1st time I've been to his current workshops. I wish it had of been a more sociable visit but Everyone was in a mad rush, as usual!! haha, I'll see you at Revolution anyways eh?

SS is quite brittle, it has less give than MS. any constant vibration will cause it to snap at a stresspoint. Check all your rubbers are supporting the system when you get it sorted mate.

My thoughts entirely, also helps I can hang off a spanner as well tho! haha

Oh that was a lucky stroke!! I might PM Chris as he mentioned he may have some available.

Where did you buy your gaskets from mate?

I had Work Equips on a Skyline GTST, really nice wheels.

Has anyone ever been to Newcastle on a Friday or a Saturday night? EXACTLY like this.....well, maybe without the big poster at the end.....

It looks like I may need an N/A rocker gasket set as well, mines has started spluttering today, would the oil in the plugwells also cause the car to seem like it was hunting at idle too?? I did Iridium plugs, new leads, new cap and rotor arm when I 1st got the car and the back plugs did actually seem to be oily, I just put it down to bad maintenance. I didnt even link the two issues until re reading this thread!

My wiper hole is on the drivers side.

Ohhhh, so that was you getting your car done when I dropped my seats off and got a dash panel???? hahaha, nice to (almost) meet you!! hehe

Autoglym metal polish on my one polished rim, I took the laquer off it due to there being lots of water ingress/crazing underneath it. I polished it back up with a scotchbrite pad and then vigorous polishing with the Autoglym and its come up like a mirror. I had expected it to corrode again by now but it hasn't and I did it a month ago! (The rest of my rims are diamond cut and laquered still and they're shown up now by the shinier one)

Black with polished rims FTW

Hahaha. I get a good few hits with longer trousers at TK-Maxx. Usually decent makes as well. What I find harder is getting them in a 38" waist and a 36" leg, now that's a challenge!

If you're in your Supra then you're right!!

Haha, I haven't shaved em for a while.....are you into the Yeti look?

Apparently I look great in a skirt! haha

Are you keeping the dash panels? If not, can you give me an idea of cost on the stereo surround and the upper cowling (above clocks) please mate? Cheers.