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I'm about to do mine cause everybody else is painting now and mine has been painted for like 5 years........ its just like any other type of aluminum polishing... start off w/ something like 400 to shape the rough endges then hit up w/ 1000grit then 1500 then 2000 all water and buff out w/ aluminum polish (mothers)
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I used a dye grinder to get all the rough edges off and sort of smooth it out. Then I wetsanded it progressively going to a smoother paper starting out with 200 grit I think (don't remember). I then progressively went to a smoother sandpaper to make it really smooth. Once all of the marks from the rough paper are gone, then you can mive on to a smoother paper. The smoother and flatter the surface is, the better the reflection properties will be. Then I got a Dremel after it polishing it smooth with Mother's Aluminum polish. That's pretty much the idea of it. I get a lot of compliments on them.
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They acutally stay cleaner than painted calipers. Mine used to be painted and it seemed as though the paint kind of absorbed the brake dust. I was wasting my time washing them, they stayed dirty. Now all I have to do is wipe them off and they're good as new. And all I have covering them is the polish I used to get them to bling.
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This LS1 tech member has some directions on doing this as well.
His link is here.
http://formula.bambeezer.com/calipers.htm
His link is here.
http://formula.bambeezer.com/calipers.htm
