They do melt! (Pics)
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Originally Posted by ClarenceT
nah they look fine. I stripped my clear coat a long time ago, since it was mostly faded/gone/baked off/engrained with brake dust anyway.. I used the "stripper in a can" (false advertising made me do it) and accidentally got it all over one of my center emblems. my advice - pop them off, anf reglue later. It'll make them look liek the face of freddy kruger 
$70 per rim is a ton! I havn't actually polished mine yet (busy with exhaust - new cat and smog time) but I shined a lot of crap up on my Magna, and it's damn easy to do. Especially if you can get a hold of a die grinder and some buffing wheels.
$70 per rim is a ton! I havn't actually polished mine yet (busy with exhaust - new cat and smog time) but I shined a lot of crap up on my Magna, and it's damn easy to do. Especially if you can get a hold of a die grinder and some buffing wheels.
that is $70 CDN a rim, so around $50 U.S.
i dont think that is a ton, i dont think u can buy new rims for that price. they look new to me anyways, a diff look.
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$50 A piece is pretty cheap. I was quoted $80 ea. to do the exposed areas, $120 ea. to do the same plus the coves. Well worth it, but I like the satisfaction of doing it myself. Plus I'm a cheap bastige these days.
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If anyone is interested, when I got my 91 Vette it had the usual curb rash and some nicks and scratchs on every wheel. After a trip down to my local Chevy dealer to find out the wheels are NOT available anymore from Chevrolet, I started looking on the internet. Most that I found were at least $400.00 each new and chromed, or if they were used, looked basically like the ones on the car for anywhere from $150.00 to $300.00 each, so that wasn't an option.
I located a business here in Rochester, New York that took my factory rims, degreased, media blasted, sanded, powdercoated, and cleared coated them front AND back for $100.00 a rim. This was back to the standard silver metallic the way they came from the factory. I was amazed at the job this business did on these rims, it looked like he had just taken them out of the box when I went to pick them up. He has hundreds of colors available, but didn't have this exact silver so he sent to Oregon to get the correct color which took a little longer, but was well worth the wait.
Also, I had him do my valve covers as they had turned brown like so many others I have seen, and these also turned out excellent. This winter I'm going to have him do the plenum and runners along with assorted brackets. He did the valve covers for another $100.00 which to me was well worth it. Anyway, the business is Leland Powdercoating and the owners name is Paul Foster. Phone # is 585-254-2640 or email: plfoster@earthlink.net Paul is great to work with, prices are very reasonable, and you won't be disappointed, tell him Mark sent you!!!
I located a business here in Rochester, New York that took my factory rims, degreased, media blasted, sanded, powdercoated, and cleared coated them front AND back for $100.00 a rim. This was back to the standard silver metallic the way they came from the factory. I was amazed at the job this business did on these rims, it looked like he had just taken them out of the box when I went to pick them up. He has hundreds of colors available, but didn't have this exact silver so he sent to Oregon to get the correct color which took a little longer, but was well worth the wait.
Also, I had him do my valve covers as they had turned brown like so many others I have seen, and these also turned out excellent. This winter I'm going to have him do the plenum and runners along with assorted brackets. He did the valve covers for another $100.00 which to me was well worth it. Anyway, the business is Leland Powdercoating and the owners name is Paul Foster. Phone # is 585-254-2640 or email: plfoster@earthlink.net Paul is great to work with, prices are very reasonable, and you won't be disappointed, tell him Mark sent you!!!
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Originally Posted by cuisinartvette
$50 A piece is pretty cheap. I was quoted $80 ea. to do the exposed areas, $120 ea. to do the same plus the coves. Well worth it, but I like the satisfaction of doing it myself. Plus I'm a cheap bastige these days.
doing it yourself is a lot more rewarding anyway like you said =)
