roye@hrewheels.com

Just out of curiosity, where do you plan to track the car? There really are not a lot of places for us to go in so-cal. RE

I had a 1/2 hp oversized bench grinder with about a 6 inch arbor on it that worked ok but you have to bolt the things down so you can lean into them. when we are polishing a wheel center we start off with 80 grit then we go to 240, then we use these abrasive wheels that our guys put together here, almost the equivelent of 800 grit, from there we use a sisal buff then two levels of custom made buffs. A home hobbiest could get away with using 80-240-1000 grit then a small sisal buff and finally a cotton or flannel buff. I would still recomend a bench grinder but you need to have a long arbor on it so that you have enough work area. RE

Yeah, it's pretty much the same for all parts made out of alluminum. of course if you are really getting into it there are differnt buff and compound combinations for different material applications but for most basic polishing you can get what you need at a hardware store. If you do want something fancy go on-line and check out National Buff or Jackson Lea, we buy some of our supplies from them. RE

The Flitz polishing ball kicks serious ass for fixing parts that have already been polished, just throw it into an electric drill, rub some compound into the polish and go at it. We use these at photo shoots and at SEMA for quick repairs.

Sorry buddy but if your going to polish something you need get it smooth like you have done but then you need to buff the surface with a pretty good amount of force and the appropriate compound. you can get small buffs and rouge and home depot but your going to want to mount them on some thing with some horse power if you want to get a decent finish. We use 10 HP lathes with 1.5 inch thick arbors and 2 different 14 inch buffs to polish our rim outers. the whole opporation takes about 15 minuts but you have to be really agresive. If you are using a 1/2 HP grinder your going to put in at least an hour a wheel to get a good finish. And remember if you are not getting the whhel hot to the touch your not pushing hard enough. Be carefull though people have died in the polishing industry by leting the buff catch the wheel and spin it. 35lbs+1800rpm=really bad head ache RE

Dymags quality is top notch, I know their process for producing these wheels and the least I can say is that their equipment and process parallel a Formula 1 teams. I know a Z weighs a good deal more than a sport bike and exerts a different type of load on a wheel, but Dymag has been selling bike wheels for years and even meets the very stringent testing standards of the European TUV. True, they are very expensive but also very bad ass!

looks like the CCW, But they use a very flat lathe profile. The low offset lathe profile and spoke mill work looks like a BBS wheel, probaly the LM. If you were really interested in a 3-piece mesh wheel you can have them made in any bolt pattern, hub bore and offset by BBS, HRE, Rays, or CCW.