How do you polish the center caps to make them match the rest of a polished wheel?

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91 Z28
Best Time Slip:
60' - 2.098
1/8 - 9.137 , MPH - 76.21
1/4 - 14.213, MPH - 97.55
Performace Mods: B&B Exhaust, few free mods.
Appearance Mods: SS wheels, 2.5" Cowl Hood... New 100% Black paint job, Clear Side Marker Lights
Stereo: Alpine 855, Infinity Kappas all around, Infinity 150x2 amp (POS), Infinity Perfect 10 in hatch.
Pictures are Here
ICQ: 1437212
AOL: normalmatt9

 

mothers aluminum polish it is the best for any thing you have to polish. i even use it on my windows

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91 Z-28 Coupe
L-98, 700-r4
Borla cat back
Performance Resource chip
Centerline wheels
K&N, Gutted air boxes
Gutted cats
Best Pass = 13.710 @100
Best 60' = 1.842
on M/T Sportsman Pros

Race Car:
S/P 91 Camaro Z/28
454 LS7 crate motor
Crane Roler cam
Dart intake
1000cfm TRC Carb
Powerglide
9" Ford rear
Goodyear 14"-32"-15"
Weld prostars
All steal except for hood and rear deck
Best ET: 9.64 @ 145
3000# with driver

 

I used to wax my windshield and windows, but it just fogged tehm over and got all over my wipers so they wouldn't work. Will the Mothers polish work on them without doing this? i might not have got all the wax off, but it was a PITA not to be able to see. Does the polish also make the water run off quickly?

 

Mothers won't make center caps (the outside ring) look almost chrome. I'm assuming I'm going to have to sand it... I heard you could do it that way... but I'm not sure which grit... A guy on here has some polished wheels... and the center cap included is almost chrome looking.

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91 Z28
Best Time Slip:
60' - 2.098
1/8 - 9.137 , MPH - 76.21
1/4 - 14.213, MPH - 97.55
Performace Mods: B&B Exhaust, few free mods.
Appearance Mods: SS wheels, 2.5" Cowl Hood... New 100% Black paint job, Clear Side Marker Lights
Stereo: Alpine 855, Infinity Kappas all around, Infinity 150x2 amp (POS), Infinity Perfect 10 in hatch.
Pictures are Here
ICQ: 1437212
AOL: normalmatt9

 

ttt

 

why not just buy the chrome caps; i can't see how your going to polish platic into a shiny luster but if you figure it out let me know because i would like to do that on some of my plastic parts!!

now i've seen iroc wheels polished, but they don't have much of a center cap. my center caps came with the wheels when they were chromed dipped, but i'm sure that any reputible wheel shop could order a set. problem is it might be a bit off from the polished section, that's one of the reasons i had mine chromed instead of polishing because of the large center cap.

 

I know there is someway to polish them. A person on here (Fbodfreak) had his polished. The center caps were polished as well. I'd much rather chrome them, but the cost is much much higher than doing a self polish.

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91 Z28
Best Time Slip:
60' - 2.098
1/8 - 9.137 , MPH - 76.21
1/4 - 14.213, MPH - 97.55
Performace Mods: B&B Exhaust, few free mods.
Appearance Mods: SS wheels, 2.5" Cowl Hood... New 100% Black paint job, Clear Side Marker Lights
Stereo: Alpine 855, Infinity Kappas all around, Infinity 150x2 amp (POS), Infinity Perfect 10 in hatch.
Pictures are Here
ICQ: 1437212
AOL: normalmatt9

 

Im telling you try teh mothers it works at least it did on my stock wheels. Mabie cause mine were so old the clear coat came off but the polish worked

 

Do you have pictures. The reason I say so is I think we have a difference in shine. I went looking for the picture of FbodFreaks wheels but his site is down. Without sanding the cast off, you'll never get a perfect mirror like shine. I'm not saying they weren't a little shiny... but I think we're confused between what were talking about. I show you what I'm talking about... going to find a picture.

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91 Z28
Best Time Slip:
60' - 2.098
1/8 - 9.137 , MPH - 76.21
1/4 - 14.213, MPH - 97.55
Performace Mods: B&B Exhaust, few free mods.
Appearance Mods: SS wheels, 2.5" Cowl Hood... New 100% Black paint job, Clear Side Marker Lights
Stereo: Alpine 855, Infinity Kappas all around, Infinity 150x2 amp (POS), Infinity Perfect 10 in hatch.
Pictures are Here
ICQ: 1437212
AOL: normalmatt9

 

Here some pictures of polished wheels. If yours look like this by just adding mothers, then retract all my statements... I apologize.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cg...627684&r=0&t=0

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cg...446513&r=0&t=0

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cg...508782&r=0&t=0


I tried looking for some thirdgen wheels but couldn't find any. As you can see, some of those look almost chrome.

 

My centers are starting to peel and its chrome/shiny underneath the gray crap. Try steel wool, may take longer but they wont be all scratched up.

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1992 Camaro Z-28 custom 25th anniversary, 5.7 TPI auto, 2.73 posi, t-tops, arctic white with 92' medium mettalic gray stripes with black border stripe.

1967 Pontiac Catalina 2 door fastback, 400 v-8, auto, cameo white, dark red interior