FUCHS WHEELS QUESTION

Yes.  You could do them yourself, but it's very labor intensive.  You could also have a wheel shop do them for you, but it won't be cheap.

Here's a photo of my 10 year old replica Fuchs that I refurbished a couple of years ago.

Once a year I do a quick 'buff-up' to keep the shine.

 

 

Mark - I put Fuchs on my CMC and had them polished by a professional polisher - not cheap - but they look like chrome when they're done.  I am very pleased with mine and once polished they clean up fast looking like new.  

Hi David

 

Any pics?

you have wide body?

what size are your fuchs/tires?
thanks! 

Very labor intensive!!!

 

Troy Sloan always talks about taking wheels to a truck stop and getting wheels polished cheaply...perhaps he could give you a contact.

Just as a reference, I had a full set of black anodized 911 Fuchs rims and decided to polish them out myself.  Fuchs anodizing is really, really tough.  You have to just about blast with dynamite to get it off - it is NOT paint.  It takes a full 3-4 DAYS PER WHEEL using a power drill and a flexible shaft drive.  Started with 600 grit sanding mini-disks and worked my way up to 2000 grit paper and THEN polished for about three hours each with metal polish and a variety of polishing tips.  After all that, I washed them three times, let them dry overnight and clear-coated them with Krylon clear acrylic (rattle can).  That was in 2007 and they still look great today.

 

Would I do that again?  Not on a bet.  I would find someone else and pay them $150 per wheel to do the same thing (if I could find someone).

 

Since you would be starting with semi-polished rims (no anodization), I would guess that it wouldn't take nearly as long - maybe a day each - to get them polished up to a gleaming finish.

I love my original Fuchs anodized wheels on my '86 911, still looking almost show room new.

Like Gordon said, it's a lot of work.  I have a local 18 wheeler truck wash and detail place that machine polishes them for $25 bucks a piece and they look spectacular.

Troy

Any experience with fuchs ?
I'm looking at 16" for my cmc flared kit.
I'd like to make the ride nice
The 17" fuchs with low profile look like they might make for a rough ride...and I think the 15" will look to small.

Thanks

I have a flared CMC and have always run Fuchs 16" X 7" wide rims all around.  Came off of an '89 911 and they were stock backspacing for that year.  I'm running 1-1/8" hard (T-10?) billet spacers from Pelican Parts.

 

205R55-16's all around to get the "look" of the 1950's but a softer ride.  Speedo is off by about 2%, but it's in KPH so what the heck:

 

mark yours dont look bad, and probably not that hard to do,I do my bug wheels in a afternoon and  boy do I look nasty when Im done, find that truck stop & have them do it for you, I would if I was a cheep assed vw owner with ocd & multiple personality's, the ocd racer in me wont let anybody tuch any thing of mine. but the old decrepid disabled partly paralized oh wtf guy in me is starting to gain ground....before he is under it.

GORDON

 

Your car is beautiful. Do you think 16x9 would fit on the rear.?

The set I am looking at are 16x7 front and 16x9 rear.

I can always find another set, but I wouldn't mind the wider rears.

I currently have the VINTAGE SPEEDSTER MOCK FUCHS that are 17x8's

Also..is there a photo gallery of your car front different angles?

thanks

This is how my car is sitting now...obviously I am wanting the rear to drop down...it might take some adjustment...I'm hoping the smaller tires will help

Gordon,

Hope you have that in a high quality photo. That may be calendar worthy.

-=theron

  Hi-jack

 

Ron O, what color is your car? VERY NICE!!

I want the 17x7or 8's on mine..... if I ever get that far.

Mark:

 

Depending on the back spacing of the rim, the length of the rear axles and how true the body was fitted (left/right) on the pan, 9" should just squeeze in under the back.  I've run 8" for a short time with no issues and they were dished outward 2".  If you ran the 9" rims with 3" of outward dish AND deleted the wheel spacers they should fit.  God knows what you'd have to run for tires, but the rims will clear.  Please remember that I have an IRS rear, so the wheels/tires go straight up and down.  If you're running a swing-arm rear you may have clearance problems as the tire arcs in and out at the top as it also goes up and down.

Thank you for the complement.

Graphite/grey metallic (Porsche color from 1954).

 

My Fuchs wheels are limited edition 1984 vintage, 8x15 in rear and 7x15 in front.  used spacers in front to fill out wheel well. See pic.

It looks good David; what are you running for tire sizes? Al

225x60x15 all around