Refurbing Porsche Cup 1 reps (Mille Miglia)

[Jas11n]

Picture run-through of refurbing my Cup 1 reps. No-way was I paying the quoted £67 per wheel when I can do them myself. I'm a certified "tight ****"

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I started off by using a P120 grit wet "n" dry and a nice sharp file to key the surface, remove scratches and sort the rim edges out of kurbing marks.
Next up was to start and reduce the wet "n" dry grit rating down to P1200 through P600 and P800.
I used a scotch pad to finally smooth off and key the surface up.
Wipe off all the dust with a microfibre cloth then wipe the wheels down with some thinners.
Made sure the room temp was at no lower than 15°c and gave all four wheels three coats of silver leaving around 20 mins between coats. I used a silver paint which has a slight anthracite effect in certain light conditions.
The wheels were then rubbed down again with scotch cloths to remove any furring and wiped down again with a very small amount of thinners on a cloth.
Next was to coat all four wheels with a double hard acrylic lacquer.
In between each stages I again rubbed them down slightly with a scotch cloth.

All this above was done with spray cans, alllowing me to do the whole refurb for around £12 all in.
Now thats better than paying £268.

Tyres will be fitted next week and are brand fire new Pirelli P-zero Rosso assimetrico's in 225 x 45 x 17 . Flush fit valves will also be going on.

Patience and preparation are the keys to doing this yourself.

Pics next week when they are on the car..

Jas

[pastures16]

nice job ja
do you do a mobile service

[Nuvo]

Wow! Very nice work Jas and cost effective too, I might do some DIY refurbishment myself after seeing the results of your handywork. I'd need to look at heating my garage before I attempted such a job first mind.

All in, how many hours work would you estimate this at and can you give me some more info on the lacquer you used?

Cheers,
Nuvo.

[Jas11n]

Wow! Very nice work Jas and cost effective too, I might do some DIY refurbishment myself after seeing the results of your handywork. I'd need to look at heating my garage before I attempted such a job first mind.

All in, how many hours work would you estimate this at and can you give me some more info on the lacquer you used?

Cheers,
Nuvo.

Thanks matey

I spent about three hours in total preparing and rubbing the wheels down. The pic of the wheel above before refurbing was the worst of the four as it had some very hard kurbing on the rim edge and some deepish scratches on the surface. I must have spent at least an hour on that one alone.

Roughly spent two hours or so applying the silver base coat, including leaving 20 mins or so between the three coats. Paint used was Simoniz silver wheel paint with a hint of anthracite. Two 500ml cans used at £2.99 a can.

Lacquering took around the same as above. I opted to use Hycote Double Acrylic Concentrated paint. I used one 150ml can per wheel at £1.50 a can. This gives a very thick covering on one application. I got three coats out of the one can.
The scotch pads and wet "n" dry I got from work.

Jas

[Jas11n]

nice job ja
do you do a mobile service

Ta, and yes I can do a mobile sevice at £67 per wheel

Jas

[4WheelDrifter]

Freaky. I just took off my Cup 1s yesterday, ready to refurb them. I've even got the same brand of paint at the ready.

[pastures16]

Ta, and yes I can do a mobile sevice at £67 per wheel

Jas

bargin is that collected at that price

[dan_b]

You've done an excellent job there, nice one! Have you got any spare centre caps, I'm one short?!

[jubjub]

Excellent

[Jas11n]

You've done an excellent job there, nice one! Have you got any spare centre caps, I'm one short?!

Not yet, but when my new ones are made they're yours Dan

[s2avant95M]

Good work fella.

[Fat Audi 80]

Yep! Very nice job.

[AAH!]

looking good!

[Jas11n]

Thanks chaps

Just thought I'd add this about fitting. I think it's been covered before but I couldn't find it in a search.
The Mille Miglia wheels use a tapered seat bolt. Your standard radius seat bolts won't work correctly hence you'll need to buy some new ones.
I've bought 16 pieces of 14mm x 1.5 60° taper seat, 28mm thread length with a 17mm hex head. Also got 4 locking wheel bolts in the same sizes.
I know I could have done a stud conversion, but Trackstore has gone to the wall, eBay was a quick click away for bolts and I really don't mind using the supplied "tommy" bar in the toolkit to change wheels.

Thanks once again go to MikeS2 for pointing this out. Could have been dangerous otherwise
Now I'm just waiting on the flush fit valves and bolts to arrive, wish they'd hurry up

[Jas11n]

Piccies of the wheels on the car.
I like em

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