looks good

 

Yeah, they look pretty sharp. I think I like half polished lip (up to the first step) look better.

So which one do you ride more? Black or Lime?

 

Black... she is my baby except these rims/tires are off the green one my brother rides... mine were pretty worn and he bought pp's for the green one since he rides it. I swapped him rims and tires cause these have less than a thousand on them notice the half inch chicken strips...lol As long as that bikes in my name he isn't aloud to ride it hard. Its his baby for good here in a few weeks.

 

Haha sweet. You kept the faster one!

 

Did you polish it yourself or did you have someone do it?

 

It is faster...lol green is bone stock... no jumper with stock exhaust...
Black has: PCIII, modded stock muffler and removed butterfly valve, jumper mod, zip tie mod, K&N air filter and oil filter, rear res relocated under the seat, kietti tank pad, decals removed, custom bar ends, fender elem bracket, lp smoked VS shortstalks on the rear, polished rims, and blue nose light, rear brake spring removed, reverse shift pattern, I think thats all? Need a damn DB screen. Every time I go to buy one I just space out and end up day dreaming about go fast stuff...

 

Did you polish it yourself or did you have someone do it?

Did it myself actually still on the bike took like 3 hrs... wasn't hard just time consuming. also doing a set on a gsxr 750 right now. guys paying me 150 for them to be polished like mine...

 

Can't you use something called airplane glue or something like that to eat away the powdercoat/paint? Thought I read that somewhere...

 

aircraft paint stripper... applied heavily... scrubbed with a hard plastic brush... more stripper... more scrubbing... more stripper... more scrubbing... then coarse steel wool... more rubbing... med steel wool... more rubbing... super fine steel wool... alot of extreamly hard rubbing... then I took a polishing wheel and an aluminum rubbing compound and used my high speed polisher on the lips of them... then cleaned them with eagle one rim polish...

 

aircraft paint stripper... applied heavily... scrubbed with a hard plastic brush... more stripper... more scrubbing... more stripper... more scrubbing... then coarse steel wool... more rubbing... med steel wool... more rubbing... super fine steel wool... alot of extreamly hard rubbing... then I took a polishing wheel and an aluminum rubbing compound and used my high speed polisher on the lips of them... then cleaned them with eagle one rim polish...

3 hours for both? sounds like you made good time. looks good man, good work.

 

3 hours for both? sounds like you made good time. looks good man, good work.

Yea both and Thanks... power tools are awsome... trick is to alternate rims. soak both rims with stripper let set for 5 min. then when you scrub the first rim recoat before moving to the other then when you get done cleaning the other would have been in the stripper for a while and ready to be cleaned......... If I made any sense?...lol

 

try using mothers billet polish with the steel wool.the more time you spend the better the polish.yours looks good im just sayin when i switched from the regular aluminum polish to the billet polish it started lookin more like a mirror.btw i didnt buy mine yet and was hopin to be the 1st on here with a black 07 with polished wheels but you beat me to it damnitt.on my black 03 i polished the heelguards too have you considered that?if you dont like the look you can always just paint them black after.

 

might have to try it... I really didn't spend a whole lot of time polishing them. They looked pretty good like that and my hands where sore...lol I used a 4 inch buffing wheel with polishing compound and spent almost an hour on the set... I figure I can polish them more each time I detail it... so they should keep getting better... just was kinda burnt out at the time...

 

I thought I saw a green 07 with polished rims on here. Does anyone have any pics of one so I don't have to change rims and tires again to see what it looks like on my green one?

 

looks sweet man! i def. would have polished the wheels had i gotten a black bike

 

It is faster...lol green is bone stock... no jumper with stock exhaust...
Black has: PCIII, modded stock muffler and removed butterfly valve, jumper mod, zip tie mod, K&N air filter and oil filter, rear res relocated under the seat, kietti tank pad, decals removed, custom bar ends, fender elem bracket, lp smoked VS shortstalks on the rear, polished rims, and blue nose light, rear brake spring removed, reverse shift pattern, I think thats all? Need a damn DB screen. Every time I go to buy one I just space out and end up day dreaming about go fast stuff...

lol gotta crack on u juuuuust a bit (since u seem pretty cool enough in all ur other posts n hopefully u wont take it personally..)

lol u said ur bike is faster than the green, and then listed all ur mods, even the ones that arent performance...lol. maybe im the only one who found that funny...

stickers add 5whp! lol

(im jus teasin)

 

damn 5 hp per sticker?... I lost like 30hp on stickers alone... maybe I should put them back on? I was going to get green wheel stripes but that went out the window...lol... I figured I would just list everything... only thing the green ones has is PP's, plate bracket, and took the reflectors off the front fender.

 

see, i would only do the polished wheels on the black...i wouldnt dare do it on the other colors.

for the other colors id do the wheel stripes...or just get the wheels painted to match.

i cant decide if i wanna get the wheels painted to match my green, or just do the wheel stripes.

 

I wish you lived in AZ cuz I would gladly give you 150 to do that on mine. I have the red rims and want to do the lips as well

 

What do you use to separate the parts that you want the stripper on and the parts you don't. Tape?

 

painters tape

 

What do you use to separate the parts that you want the stripper on and the parts you don't. Tape?

the second set I just finished wasn't on the bike i didn't mask anything off I just used a small 1 inch brush and followed the line carefuly. The rough part of the rim is hard to strip paint off so if your careful and you accidently drop a little on the textured part you can wipe it off before it eats the paint...if anyone wants it done 100 bucks and you pay for shipping to and from... tires dismounted preferably but i can do it mounted too... just pm me if you want. once you check out shipping prices... But honestly its not hard just time consuming... and your hands will be cramping by the time your done

 

if you buy the spray aircraft grade stripper it works better.just mask off what you dont want stripped

 

More stripper(s) FTW!

I thought I saw a green 07 with polished rims on here. Does anyone have any pics of one so I don't have to change rims and tires again to see what it looks like on my green one?

http://kawiforums.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=82251

 

Hey thanks I searched but couldn't find it... I didn't realize that it had been that long ago that I seen that post... Anyone else plan on polishing there rims? I think it would make that red look real nice...