Ben vs Mk3. Round 2.

[Ben J]

I can not guarantee and donations made to myself will be tax deductible, easiest way to find out is to do it and see what happens haha. Not really though, I wouldn't feel right taking anyones money to buy car parts

To polish it up I gave it a nice thick coat of paint stripper and let it sit for a while, then scraped off what I could. Most of the paint came off the first time, but I did a second coat to get rid of whatever was left. After I got all the paint off (and painted my fingers in paint stripper (I couldn't find any gloves) which gives a lovely burning sensation, haha) cleaned it up and sanded it until it was perfectly smooth with 120 grit paper. Then worked up the grits going from the 120 to 180, 240, 320, 800, 1200 and finished with 1500, sanding with each different grit until all the marks from the previous paper were completely removed. I wet sanded with the 800, 1200 and 1500. After that I just polished it up with some mothers chrome and aluminium wheel polish or something (really not sure what its call, but its good stuff). Probably took 5 or so hours to do just one, not including the numerous breaks I had to take to keep my sanity

[anthony--t]

Sounds like the same process I went through with polishing my lips. The mothers mag and aluminium polish is amazing! Looks good mate.

[VR28LT]

nice, just goes to show if you put in a bit of work awesome results can be had

[KI11Z]

work man! can't wait to dig into mine too! money's tight also, study sucks..... if you ever want to sell the vr, let me know

[Mk3 AAA]

Looked awesome tonight dude, now spend your time in the naughty corner productively!

[Ben J]

Thanks man Don't be expecting big changes but will give me a chance to tidy up a few things for sure I'm determined to get the BBS on by the time I'm out driving again

[Ben J]

Finished polishing up another one of these today, even happier with it than the first one.

[dylan8]

Finished polishing up another one of these today, even happier with it than the first one.

mind me asking what you did/used?
Looks great

[Ben J]

Cheers. I stripped the paint off with paint stripper, dry sanded with 120, 180 and 240 and then wet sanded with 400, 800, 1200, 1500, 2000. Then hit them with some mothers aluminium polish to finish them off. Probably took over 6 hours to do that one haha, totally worth it though.

[rayray086]

Then hit them with some mothers aluminium polish to finish them off.

All by hand? No tools? My previous efforts don't even come close to your achievement, ****'s ridiculous!!!!!

[dylan8]

All by hand? No tools? My previous efforts don't even come close to your achievement, ****'s ridiculous!!!!!

About to say the same.
Mine looked nothing like yours and I followed the same steps

[Ben J]

Thanks! Pretty much did it all by hand. I tried using a buffing wheel on a drill for the final stage but it doesn't really make much difference, the polishing is pretty easy when you've sanded it right. I considered using sanding rolls and flapper discs etc to do it faster, but it would be hard to keep the surfaces flat and the final result wouldn't be as good. Honestly I'm impressed too, I've tried metal polishing a few things before (like my vr6 intake manifold) and they haven't come up nearly as nice. Its easy to make something shiny, but to get pretty much a mirror finish when looking straight on takes a lot of time.

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[Ben J]

A hint of things to come

[ffoff]

Curb feelers?

[Wolfgang]

IKEA Furniture?