Polished fat fives painted up Sum

[southside]

Just painted the insides to make em look better:goodjob: Waiting on followers:D

The Befores
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/HPIM0971.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/HPIM0970.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture013.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture014.jpg
The Afters
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture015.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture016.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture020.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture021-1.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture023.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture024.jpg
http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb148/corey20072007/Picture025.jpg

[9ussy]

looks good..:goodjob:

[southside]

Thanks they havent been hit with the Mothers in like 2months.

[jwrape]

Wow! Making me want to break out my ol' oxidized Fatfives and do the same.:goodjob:

[southside]

^^^ you bring supplys and 75 bucks and ill do it for you

[jwrape]

^^^ you bring supplys and 75 bucks and ill do it for you

Thanks, I might take you up on it later.:goodjob:

[southside]

Yea it takes a long time to do them but once your done,It looks so damn good.

[southside]

Next Will be the Ls Mesh

[twinj]

Looks good pimpin.

[Bud]

clean goodjob bro. +reps

[mr.koupe]

noice ! go wild :ninja:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n7/b18cguy/DSC_0013.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n7/b18cguy/DSC_0002.jpg

[southside]

^^^Nice but look like they need to be polished.Love the inside color tho and clean a$$ teg

[mr.koupe]

^^^Nice but look like they need to be polished.Love the inside color tho and clean a$$ teg

they needed buffing somethin serious lol

[khaxnguyen]

....nice angles on the picts.
and wow GJ on the masking! =|
-kha

[southside]

^^^haha had to make sure I aint hit my rims or the tires.And wanted to get it pretty straight

[OTG Signs]

Looks good. It also works similar if you paint and then polish the faces. :)

[southside]

^^^Yea I was suppose to do that but was trying to get them done.Wanted to make it to the varsity so i just polished and didnt paint.

[southside]

I only got 2 more to go so much masking.Gosh

[Sport1.3]

Nice!!

[Sammich]

thats great man...alot of consuming time there

[Romeo]

man i love those. looks great. rep'd.

[Black4DrEK]

dem thangs is CLEAN

[khaxnguyen]

dem thangs is CLEAN

w3rd? you should see mines, madd tYte bling blang y0 ;)

[southside]

^^^well he aint talking about your's he's Talking about mine.

[southside]

dem thangs is CLEANThanks:goodjob:

[iNsTuN nOoDoH]

looks good!

[southside]

^^^thanks and sad to say only thing that makes my car look good

[cactusEG]

Very good work man :goodjob:

[southside]

^^^^Thanks

[allmotorX]

clean

[Decepticon™]

noice ! go wild :ninja:

http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n7/b18cguy/DSC_0013.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n7/b18cguy/DSC_0002.jpg



:crazy: Wow im diggin those blades

[southside]

^^^YEa I Love blades but so many ppl got them now.A few months back I remember people selling them for like 600bucks

[southside]

I see you looking

[khaxnguyen]

I see you looking

o r'ly? :eek:

[southside]

o r'ly? :eek::chuckles:yup

[CraigMW]

I LOVE THE FAT 5'S AND THE BLADES GUYS! GOOD WORK!

[southside]

Thanks man

[ground_shaki]

yeah that makes me want to do mine now...how long did it take

[khaxnguyen]

yeah that makes me want to do mine now...how long did it take

on average for the average joe it takes nearly 10+ hours continuous sanding, with experienced polishers maybe about 5 hours or less. really depends on whether or not your a perfectionist or not

[EJ_Allmota]

Well done, looks great..


thats great man...alot of consuming time there
Indeed..

[southside]

Well done, looks great..


Indeed..Thanks man feels pretty good coming from you:D .

[SRCRX]

Next Will be the Ls Mesh

yA.I want to do the same with mine.

[southside]

yA.I want to do the same with mine.It will be a long process but it wouldnt be fun if it was easy:boobies:

[V-dubbin]

SEXY !!!!! :eek: !!!!!

[V-dubbin]

PLZ tell me what kind of paint did u use?

[southside]

PLZ tell me what kind of paint did u use?haha Duplicolor 5$per can paint.Sike thats what they told me to use:D I used walmart 96 cent paint:goodjob:

[ronin]

look great, man so much tape time...damn good job, makes me wanna go over and start making offers to get me some fat 5s.
What do you polish with, tool?, and what compound?

[southside]

look great, man so much tape time...damn good job, makes me wanna go over and start making offers to get me some fat 5s.
What do you polish with, tool?, and what compound?
How to polish your rims...


Taken from a quick writeup i did on a local forum.. questions, comments, editing welcome. A side project i started in the middle of winter and finally finished. takes about 4-5 hours/rim. took way longer than i expected but once i started i couldnt turn back. anyway.. here's what i wrote.----------



Things you'll need.

Gloves - buy a 100 pack at the drug store, if you dont use gloves get ready to have black hands for a week.
Sandpaper 150*, 220, 320, 400, 600, 800, 1500
2 cans of mothers polish
6" Buffer
Small palm sander
A few rolls of that blue paper towel stuff from canadian tire (http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1259115#)..


* Be carefull with 150 grit..use only to sand down curb scrapes or really bad areas.. you'll need to speed 3 x time with 220 grit to get rid of the sanding marks that the 150 will leave behined.

Step 1: strip rims with heavy duty paint stripper - follow the instructions exactly, do not do it on a humid or cold day or expect to do it agian!

SKIP TO STEP 4-8 if rims are smooth after stripping - use your own judgement. Sir rims and many other OEM rims have concentric machined rings that need to be sanded off so you need to start off with 220 grit

Step 2: Sand down with 220 BY HAND use a wood block for flat parts. take your time and make sure you dont see anything but the sanding marks that the 220 will leave behined. I sand dry with 220. this step will take the most time! do a good job.

Step 3:

Use 320 with the palm sander along with lots of water.
Palm sand as much as the rim (http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1259115#) as you can but be carefull not to let the sanders lip hit anything! let the sander to the sanding and use lots of water.

clean with clean rags and water.

hand sand areas you cant get at with the palm sander

sand again with the palm sander and fresh sand paper.

Step 4: (same as step 3 with 400 grit)
Step 5: (same as step 3 with 600 grit)

Step 6: Hand sand with 800 grit - take your time and get everything! I used this maroon colored paper from home hardware - it didn't last long using lots of water but it worked so well. buy 4 sheets of this stuff! Thumb Up I did 2 good passes with this stuff.

Step 7: Do the same with 1500 grit. the rim will look very smooth and very DULL. if it looks even and dull than you did a good job.

Step 8: Smear a decent amount of mothers on the whole rim. WITH A NEW CLEAN bonnet buff until you start to see circles/haze - you'll see the rim start to get very shiney but will leave a buffing patteren. keep doing this but dont let it get competely dry.. hard to explain but you cant really screw anything up at this point, just might have to do it over. turn the bonnet inside out for the next 'step 8' that you do.

Step 9: WITH A NEW CLEAN bonnet buff the rim. If you did the buffing part right the rim will look like a mirror in seconds. if it still looks hazy than keep experimenting with step 8. you will surprise yourself http://images.honda-tech.com/set1/smile/emwink.gif

[southside]

somone wanted to trade me blades for these who was it?I erased all my messeges

[southside]

I want somthing else now.

[southside]

I got the rest of my wheels back and now im going to paint the rest of the wheels.