I'm sanding and polishing my intake manifold and chamber baby.

These are the recent pics (after 5hours of sanding):



I think i'm gonna be doing this all day, lOL

 

are you doing that by hand or some sort of tool?

i hate hand cramps. :P

 

well i got all the old oxidize and crap off by dremel. DREMEL is a must in this job. I just started using sand paper with hand. U need to do this to get a nice finish. Start by 80, then go to 120, then 220 and if it was not good enough 400 grit.

 

i polish mine in the square and i paint the letter

 

Max has it goin' on..

 

i've cleaned the letters. But i think i'm gonna paint the letters red, like j-spec

 

Its going to take alot higher that even 400 grit to get a good finish.

Your going to need to do 600, then 1200, then 2000, then a polishing paste to get it really shinny.

You need to get all the pit out before you move up to 400 grit too.

 

Yeap I agree with Dyre....you will START to see the shine at 400 but once you pass 600 and up you'll get that satin finish look...at aroun 1000 you'll get a reflection on it...with the paste is mirror..like chrome like. ( I just satin finished my wheels today...no time for mirror like)

in few words it's time consuming but well worth the effort.


Does anybody know a good product to keep the polished parts looking like new?

 

A shot of clear works good for me once I polish something.

 

crazy dog I have tried clear but after a couple of months it gets yellow and peals. Is brazzo any good? or something newer..damn I'm old.

 

i know, i just filed all the cast lines away, so it looks like one piece. I am slowly moving up to 120, so i got lots of work left,

new pics:

 

looking good...at this rate I say you are done at around 7:00 a.m. tomorrow....that is if you don't sleep

 

doing this while watching hockey game.

I think i will stop around 11 tonight and start tommorow at 8

 

USE STEEL WOOL!!!

You can accomplish the same task in like 3 hours with 3 or 4 different "grains" of steel wool.

Using XXX will produce a chrome like shine.

cheers'

 

Heres what I do. Get some aluminum polish. Get a buffer and buff the hell out of it. If you do it long enough you get a almost mirror polish.

I am going to do it to myu Mazdatrix 45 dcoe intake manifold when I get it to mach my chrome RB streetport exhaust

 

which brand aluminum polish you recommend 82streetracer?