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Old 02-28-04, 08:42 PM
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Some of my recent polishing pics (56kno)

Here we have some of my recent polishing work for my friend victor (vel525 ) in chicago. I did the intake manifold X over pipe and intake. I put them on the car today.

What do you all think?

Here is the Intake and Manifold, sorry about no flash in the pics, it was to bright if we did it.



Intake manifold ( smudges near the TB)







From this:



To This





Then some random pics of chicago








and of course the best for last....




the dust king,

anyway tell me what you all think

Steve
Old 02-28-04, 09:25 PM
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Nice pics man, what did you use to get it to shine that well?
Old 02-28-04, 09:34 PM
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polish the elbow too! Looks really good. That Elbow just sort of bugs me. Like weed in a field of flowers
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polish the elbow too! Looks really good. That Elbow just sort of bugs me. Like weed in a field of flowers
The elbow is gonna be a bitch to polish, considering it is plastic!
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Very very nice job! Is it really hard to polish stuff or just plain time consuming?
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Nice finish! How long did it take? I may have to do that, though it has been a long time since I really took the effort to polish something that well.
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only the first pic works now...
Old 02-28-04, 11:37 PM
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Originally posted by Rotarded
The elbow is gonna be a bitch to polish, considering it is plastic!
Sorry, as the name eludes to I don't actually own a rotary yet, please excuse my ignorance.
Old 02-29-04, 12:44 AM
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Guys,
Steve did an awesome job with the polishing. Thanks to Steve, Joe and Al who came over and helped me put her back together. I have to wash the car next.

Victor
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nice polishing, maybe you should have done that to ur car, looks a little dusty...lol
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great polishing work!! all that will pay off when you pop open the hood and VOILA!!! Bling Bling
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Great job steve, and nice pics.
Old 02-29-04, 08:31 AM
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amazing!!! you guys put alot of time with your rx7s

cant wait for the warm weather, im gonna start doing that to mine
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I'm just finishing my 23rd, and final piece, the alternator. If its aluminum, it's polished! Thinking back over the last 8 weeks, polishing is a serious bitch and I would choose to pay someone else if there would ever be a reason to do it again.

I should have pics in the next couple of weeks when I get my motor back in (after the porting is done ). No it didn't blow, just a pre-emptive strike/upgrade before the 106k miles catch up to it.

Mike

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The polishing took a good bit of time. I did it all by hand (the sanding ). Many hours in the garage sanding away. To get it to shine well, I just used the buffer with White rouge and tripoly.

oh and, who says all 18 year old FD owners are worthless? :P
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looks really nice... so you got it to shine just by sanding and buffing?

(how much would u charge to polish my manifold??) id be interested in jus gettin that polished... im local too
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ya mike, get yer engine bay polished ya dork!!
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Hmm... Polishing another manifold. I'll have to think about it, I really hate doing it lol
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maybe if the price is right
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clean the engine bay! nice work though.
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I'll polish it.
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I think I'll just take my stuff to harley!
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