Anyone restored 280zx Turbo Swastika Wheels?

[Ben's Z]

I took the turbo wheels off my parts car, glass beaded the wheels and have wet sanded the lips and polished two of them, so far so good. I may just sell these on ebay, they seem to bring decent money, to raise funds for the Rota's or use them until that day comes to get rid of my awful hubcaps that came when I bought my car from another 280zx.

I was going to repaint the factory grooves where the old factory paint was that I media blasted off. (was gold) I was going to use the dupli-color graphite paint I used on my taillight surround and then clear over the paint.

Here are my questions:

1) Should I clear that paint and the face of the wheel too? Or just clear over the paint and leave the face of the wheel bare aluminum?

2)Should I use a matte clear or a normal clear coat? For either above situation...

If anyone would be interested in buying these when I am done and wants some other factory color on the rough aluminum I would be glad to finish them to your specifications. I only have 1 center cap. I would rate the wheels at an 8 of 1-10, so they would be great for your nice driver.

[Walter Moore]

Whatever you do, do not clear coat the unpainted parts of the wheel. The aluminum will corrode under the clear coat and end up having to be re-stripped and polished.

(Which is on my to do list eventually...)

[Ben's Z]

Do you need to have actual Swastika center caps to fit swastika wheels? Or will other center caps with the same hub hole fit swastika wheels?

[robftw]

Whatever you do, do not clear coat the unpainted parts of the wheel. The aluminum will corrode under the clear coat and end up having to be re-stripped and polished.

(Which is on my to do list eventually...)

I always thought you could just use urethane clear on them?

[joker72z]

I used the center caps from the ZX 6 spoke wheel and had zero issues. I also did not clear my wheels after I stripped them...just kept polishing and cleaning as part of the routine.

[reddie73]

I painted the center portion of the wheel with a graphite grey wheel paint to give the wheel some contrast and show up better on my 77 280Z. I think this makes the wheel show up better. The pain can be easily removed and touched up or completely repainted again.