I'm just doing the lip of wheels trying to get from a Stainless Steel look to Polished Aluminum look.

 

thats what i did:








i covered everything that shouldn't be polished ( with some thin steel plates ) and threw it into the machine a friend uses to polish wheels ( it looks like a giant washing machine filed with some chemicals and a lot of very tiny ceramic ***** -> 3 electrical engines oscillate the whole thing and the tiny ceramic ***** polish everything even the inside )
i dont know what its called in English
looks like this ( only a bit bigger ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq8VewWQ7uw

 

Wow that would take forever by hand, does he do stuff for hire?

 

I had to replace my supercharger, so I got my horns powdercoated. Even after my 1,000 mile drive to Colorado, they still look this clean and shiny, unlike my previous set of horns that were painted by a NAM member. Powdercoating leaves a nice nearly smooth finish that doesn't hold dirt.

 

sure he does thats his job
but mine are not 100% done... it would've taken another 2-4h in the machine to remove all the last tiny pixel. but i didn't have the time ( and i think its good enough )

thats how it looks right now:







and thats what he does for a living: weels


like that even the original 16" Mini weels look kinda cool

 

wow thats nice , heres a shot of my half a** attempt