Best $50 spent in a loong time..

[EricVonHa]

At Carlisle I bought some polishing stuff from Eastwood after seeing a write-up about it in a Chevy magazine. That 50 bux bought me 2 different types of polishing compound (Rouge and Tripoli) and 4 polishing "discs" and the assorted attachments to put this stuff on a drill. All I have to say is "Wow". Using a 3/8" variable speed drill yields incredible results! Much better and easier than using Mother's!!

Here's the "Before" shot. Look at the contrast between the spokes and the lip of the rim. The rim is very dull in this picture.

 

[EricVonHa]

Here's the "After" shot. Notice how bright the lip of the rim is now? The darker area of the Rim is actually a reflection!

 

[8388]

Ba ba BAD ! I need sum

 

[jcummings250]

I take it this stuff was just for the wheels? What do you use for the body/paint?? Where do we get this stuff from Eastwood?

 

[Peer81]

Eric, very nice! :cool

I see you had the luck your rim's didn't have a clear coat on them. When you got clear coating on the rim's you first need to get it of and then you've got a few weeks of work to make it right!
And the more you use it on your rims (or other parts) the better they get.

@John, these kind's of polishing product's are for all kinds of aluminium, rvs etc etc (steel that doesn't rust). So for a c4 you can do the entire front suspention! (like the suspention of HoldHard), the airco lines and evapurator can etc etc...

Greetings Peter.

 

[90Callaway]

Amazing what the right materials and a few thousand RPMs of buffing speed will do for some dull metal. That wheel looks great.

I'm planning on doing all the aluminum under my hood with a dremel this winter. I bought all the little cotton pads at Carlisle as well.

 

[SurfnSun]

Eric are you going to hit your intercoolers with that stuff?

 

[EricVonHa]

Eric are you going to hit your intercoolers with that stuff?

Yeap, sorry I forgot to mention that earlier. I plan on going through the rest of the shiny stuff in the motor compartment.

In the past, I've used 0000 steel wool to get off all the "bad" stuff then from there I'd polish and polish with mother's. No more!

The buffing wheels are so easy to manuever in a small 3/8" drill that hand rubbing all the shiny parts will never happen again! There is also very little "slinging" of crap (like when you rotary buff the paint on a car). If you gunk up the buffing wheel with too much polish you've added too much. Just a little does the trick. The most mess that I've experienced doing this is the buffing wheels tend to frag off a fair amount cotton or whatever they're made out of. It's easily blown away with an air gun.

 

[*89x2*]

Eric are you going to hit your intercoolers with that stuff?

Josh, I knew you would ask that

Just be careful on the sides of the intercoolers where the plates are attached :eek

Looks great Eric