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The Hurst wheels are on backorder, and I need tires for them anyway. Not in the budget to get tires just yet, so I decided to do something else. I pulled the satin slots from the LeMans, and the oxidized slots from the Cutlass, and cleaned them up. Took some sanding on the satin rears, the surface was really rough. Hit it with the DA and 80 grit, the same stuff I use to strip paint. Ran the paper until it was well worn and was making the wheels shiny on its own. Then wet sanded with 400 and a piece of foam insulation. Hit it with the wool buffing pad and some compound, then finish buffed it with a foam pad.
The fronts only needed cleaned with the Rolock, using the white and yellow bristles, then polishing. They have the black wall tires and were on the rear of the Cutlass.
Polishing wheels is some seriously dirty work. I was covered in black stuff, bits of wool pad, and compound. Looks like black boogers for a week or so.Doing it yourself may be dirty and time consuming, but it sure is cheap.
The rears have 275 60 15 tires, they rub the fenders a bit with the car sitting this low. So I will pull the air shocks from the LeMans and use them on the GTO for a while, until I can get different tires. The fronts are winterforce tires I had laying around 205 70 15, kinda tall, and black wall. For now it will work, since the EFI is boxed up waiting to go back. They said I should have a fast turn around on the EFI, we'll see how they do. I'll try to have pics with the wheels on tomorrow, its pushed to the back of the shop so I can work on other stuff, which makes pics hard to do.
Here's how bad the rears looked before polishing. The fronts were just as bad, they are in the pic of the Cutlass
The fronts only needed cleaned with the Rolock, using the white and yellow bristles, then polishing. They have the black wall tires and were on the rear of the Cutlass.
Polishing wheels is some seriously dirty work. I was covered in black stuff, bits of wool pad, and compound. Looks like black boogers for a week or so.Doing it yourself may be dirty and time consuming, but it sure is cheap.
The rears have 275 60 15 tires, they rub the fenders a bit with the car sitting this low. So I will pull the air shocks from the LeMans and use them on the GTO for a while, until I can get different tires. The fronts are winterforce tires I had laying around 205 70 15, kinda tall, and black wall. For now it will work, since the EFI is boxed up waiting to go back. They said I should have a fast turn around on the EFI, we'll see how they do. I'll try to have pics with the wheels on tomorrow, its pushed to the back of the shop so I can work on other stuff, which makes pics hard to do.
Here's how bad the rears looked before polishing. The fronts were just as bad, they are in the pic of the Cutlass
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