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Offline Merlin Beerens

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« on: April 04, 2007, 09:56:12 am »
I too just finished refinishing a set of wheels for the corolla.  I was too lazy too take 'step by step' pictures.  

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Offline Kevin Park

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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 01:18:29 pm »
Nice work! What did you use to polish the lip?
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Offline Merlin Beerens

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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2007, 04:06:01 pm »
well first used wheel acid to take it down to bare metal, then sanded with 600, 800 and 1000 grit sandpaper, polished with mother's aluminum polish, and finally applied a coat of wax.
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Offline Derek Fung

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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2007, 06:31:52 pm »
good work merlin the magician hahah.  did you strip down the whole wheel or just the rim?
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Offline Trevor Engelsmeier

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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2007, 10:11:13 pm »
imagine the mesh in a gold or bronze color... serious hotness :D   now we need some pics with these on the car
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Offline Merlin Beerens

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« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2007, 07:31:38 am »
yup, it was a hard decision to go with black.  It was a toss up, between black or bronze.

I will post pictures once I mount them on the car
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Offline Mike Schmid

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« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2007, 09:11:17 am »
Looks great.  Where'd you get the wheel acid?  I don't recall having seen it before anywhere.
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Offline Merlin Beerens

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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2007, 09:13:34 am »
we have it here at the dealership...very potent stuff.
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Offline Mike Meron

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« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2007, 01:22:10 am »
you sir are an animal!
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Offline Jared Grant

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« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2007, 01:10:49 pm »
so mike and updates on how ur trip to magnus went?
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« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2007, 02:05:01 pm »
Oh shitt nice work budd thoes look pimp now
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Offline John Hartman

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« Reply #11 on: April 07, 2007, 08:39:17 am »
Nice job Merlin!!  Good choice on colour too, your AE86 is red isn't it?
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