GOSANE

While I have my A arms off I thought about polishing them and coating them with a special tough clear wheel paint.

Any body ever do this?
Is this a dumb idea?
A waste of elbow grease??;^)

Daniel Dudley

Would be very nice, I think. Por 15 has a wheel refinishing kit with a brush on clear finish. That would be pretty tough I think.

MrNasty951

I did my trailing arms!!

ivai

Damn. How much work was that Brian? Looks nice!

MPD47

This is something I totally expect to see Rolex post. I'm polishing my spare torque tube.

GOSANE

Wow, that is awesome. What procedure did you undertake?

MrNasty951

It was a lot of work! Took some time to get them the way I wanted them. I probably have 12 to 15 hrs in one arm as they are cast and you must smooth them to get good results!

MrNasty951

Mike I was thinking of doing the same thing to my torq tube!! I saw the pic's you had of yours. How pitted was the piece when you took it down ? will it be hard to smooth it out ?

MPD47

Not pitted at all, it'd be very easy. Just started with a a 2 or 400 and only worked upto 800 for paint prep. Another hour with power tools and another hour with compound and it would've been gorgeous! I really need to finish my other one.

MrNasty951

I started out by cleaning the metal real good then I used a angle grinder to smooth out and clean up. Then I went 80 grit with a da sander and took it all the way back up to a 1500 before polishing!

MrNasty951

Hell yea get that thing done!! I would love to see it. I may do mine as I still need to do something with it either polish or paint not sure yet ?

MPD47

I painted my current one black (high temp). It looks great.

Ski

1200° aluminum, bake @ 200° for an hour, cool and then coat with 500° while warm. Really a simple recipe.

333pg333

They look awesome Brian. Well done for all the effort.

GOSANE

Nice work guys!

I'm gonna do it.
I'm sure my orbital sander will help expedite the whole process.

Also I'm thinking of using something like this.>Nano Clear
or THIS
It's supposed to stick to chrome or a highly polished surface. Or possibly the POR product..........