F355 replica's
Discussion
It's dead simple to do if you have a little patience and know the value of a pound like I do!
Get some 1200 grit paper (or the n*tsack of a Honey Badger) and gently abraid the surface of the wheel, whilst lubing the thing with copious amounts of warm water. Obviously, if you go at it like a teenager with a copy of Razzle then you'll end up with a very sore wrist and the rim of the wheel will end up looking like a badly shaved chimp - this is NOT a good look as my bath room mirror tells me this daily......
Stick Vanishing Point in your DVD player and get comfy on the sofa with a bowl and plenty of kitchen paper and you'll have it smooth and grey before the Mopar wonder bites the bullet! The next step is to show it the old hair dryer (yup, first time mine came out of the box too....). Once it's dry and pig ugly, you can carefully (I said CAREFULLY!) apply the dye with a make-up sponge (yup, first time mine came out of the box too....no....wait....what now?). Now, unlike the Dulux gloss on an Essex girls teeth you DON'T have to plaster it on there like you're filling a hole in the wall that your Xbox controller made after the 300th time some spanner from the Land Of The Free punted you out of a game, lay it on smooth and even - the top coat will absolutely not hide the imperfections and you'll end up with something that looks like the tyre from a 1980's Raliegh Grfter.....
Repeat this step several times while waiting for your burgers to cook, until it's uniform and smoother than Nigel havers in a pair of velvet cycling shorts. Right, get that image out of your head, it wont get you laid or.........actually it might but duuude, seriously???
Now comes the tricky bit, take a new make-up sponge (and don't give me any of that - it's my GFs cr*p, you were in Boots buying some macho deodorant that repels everything but muskrats just like me and thought "hey, they look useful! I'll tell the spotty, hoop earinged troll on the counter that they're for my dear old mum..." and very, very carefully apply the sealant. This requires the concentration of a window licker at a job interview so think about what you're doing BEFORE you do it because once you start it's all the way to the finish line or back to the 1200 grit and a MOMO shaped hole in the wall.
Et Voila! The wheel you wanted but for the cost of some cosmetic tat and the shame of lying to a hideous 18 year old girl you'll never see again (even though you secretly think about her when Estenders is on....).
There are various sealant finishes available so go with what you think will feel right for you and give the look that you're after. I went with a gloss look as various dashboard pieces will be piano black in my car so it should match the vibe when I'm done. Under no circumstance, even if you are wearing velvet cycling shorts, should you try to cut any corners when doing this as it will end up looking like a gibbons ringpiece. If you're thinking of 'simply' using the old 'Just For Men' beard dye..........don't. Remember kids, if it looks like utter sh*t on your dad's chin then it's not going to look any better once your sweaty palms have been twirling round Tesco's carpark at full chat for 6 months.
On a serious note, if you completely b*lls it up because you accidently bought a pack of ladies handbag mice instead of the sponges then just whizz it down to my neck 'o the woods and I'll sort it for you but under NO circumstances arrive at my door in velvet shorts unless you want a large man eating a bacon sandwich to show you the 1/4 inch end of a torque wrench at extremely high speed!
Good luck and don't let the burgers burn.....
Get some 1200 grit paper (or the n*tsack of a Honey Badger) and gently abraid the surface of the wheel, whilst lubing the thing with copious amounts of warm water. Obviously, if you go at it like a teenager with a copy of Razzle then you'll end up with a very sore wrist and the rim of the wheel will end up looking like a badly shaved chimp - this is NOT a good look as my bath room mirror tells me this daily......
Stick Vanishing Point in your DVD player and get comfy on the sofa with a bowl and plenty of kitchen paper and you'll have it smooth and grey before the Mopar wonder bites the bullet! The next step is to show it the old hair dryer (yup, first time mine came out of the box too....). Once it's dry and pig ugly, you can carefully (I said CAREFULLY!) apply the dye with a make-up sponge (yup, first time mine came out of the box too....no....wait....what now?). Now, unlike the Dulux gloss on an Essex girls teeth you DON'T have to plaster it on there like you're filling a hole in the wall that your Xbox controller made after the 300th time some spanner from the Land Of The Free punted you out of a game, lay it on smooth and even - the top coat will absolutely not hide the imperfections and you'll end up with something that looks like the tyre from a 1980's Raliegh Grfter.....
Repeat this step several times while waiting for your burgers to cook, until it's uniform and smoother than Nigel havers in a pair of velvet cycling shorts. Right, get that image out of your head, it wont get you laid or.........actually it might but duuude, seriously???
Now comes the tricky bit, take a new make-up sponge (and don't give me any of that - it's my GFs cr*p, you were in Boots buying some macho deodorant that repels everything but muskrats just like me and thought "hey, they look useful! I'll tell the spotty, hoop earinged troll on the counter that they're for my dear old mum..." and very, very carefully apply the sealant. This requires the concentration of a window licker at a job interview so think about what you're doing BEFORE you do it because once you start it's all the way to the finish line or back to the 1200 grit and a MOMO shaped hole in the wall.
Et Voila! The wheel you wanted but for the cost of some cosmetic tat and the shame of lying to a hideous 18 year old girl you'll never see again (even though you secretly think about her when Estenders is on....).
There are various sealant finishes available so go with what you think will feel right for you and give the look that you're after. I went with a gloss look as various dashboard pieces will be piano black in my car so it should match the vibe when I'm done. Under no circumstance, even if you are wearing velvet cycling shorts, should you try to cut any corners when doing this as it will end up looking like a gibbons ringpiece. If you're thinking of 'simply' using the old 'Just For Men' beard dye..........don't. Remember kids, if it looks like utter sh*t on your dad's chin then it's not going to look any better once your sweaty palms have been twirling round Tesco's carpark at full chat for 6 months.
On a serious note, if you completely b*lls it up because you accidently bought a pack of ladies handbag mice instead of the sponges then just whizz it down to my neck 'o the woods and I'll sort it for you but under NO circumstances arrive at my door in velvet shorts unless you want a large man eating a bacon sandwich to show you the 1/4 inch end of a torque wrench at extremely high speed!
Good luck and don't let the burgers burn.....
and i get a new window in the garage too!
I thought I'd put one of the style 32s from the E38 in the rear wheelarch to see how it looks but I don't think the style suits the overall shape of the car so I'm sticking with the Zenkeis for now. You can see the Rota Boosts on the G-Limited in the background - lovely wheels but way too spindly for this project I think.
More pics coming later today.....first, food!!
Well, apart from the missing engine mount, the rest of the block seems to be intact and it runs very well..........If I had any neighbours within a mile or so they'd probably disagree as there's no exhaust on it at the moment.....
Started washing the neglect and kebab stains from the leather door cards today. Chr*st! The previous owner was a serious mongaloid......no respect for the work that someone prior to him had put into it, although in his defence he'll probably say the same about me.....
More soon.
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