Hey guys,
It's been a while since I've been on the forum. Since the car is in the garage getting mended, I figured I'd get to work on the rather rough set of cookie cutters that I picked up for 200$. The goal is to get them to a near mirror finish and paint the centers metallic silver to have a nice contrast between polished metal and silver paint. So far, I have one about halfway done. This required stripping off the paint and clear with paint stripper (aircraft stripper, but a little less potent), and sanding with 220, 600, and 1000. By the way, if you're looking for bare aluminum polish, something called white diamond works very well and you can pick up a bottle at autozone. It works better than mother's aluminum polish imho. So this is the result! I hope you guys enjoy!
As you can see, the clearcoat is rather wasted on these wheels, and the photo I have here is probably the best wheel. The wheel I polished had way more pitting in it!
Also, what sort of tires should I get for this set of wheels? I have a late model car and YES, I KNOW these are early offset wheels, however the offset difference is no more than an inch and a quarter (and we all know late model cars with phone dials can use some beef in those rear fender wells). This has been proven on another car I've seen on rennlist that is an 87 with cookies on it. However, the car has 225/50/15s on it. Should I go with these? I used a wheel calculator and at 65 mph, I'd actually be doing 57. Should I get the 255s or go with whatever came standard on the car? Any help is appreciated. Thank you guys a lot.