bkm_rx7

im wondering how people with hella shiny polished intake manifolds got them so damned shiny! im willing to put alot of work and elbow grease into making them look so good...

GIMME UR SECRETS/METHODS WITH PICS!!!

Crush

Lol, let me tell you how. MANY, MANY hours of hard work or.....pay to get it done. On mine, I started out with a dremel and a sanding bit to get all the rough part off. Do the whole manifold. THEN, start with 80 grit aluminum oxide sandpaper to get the marks from the dremel out. Then go to 200 grit to get those marks out. Then 400, then 800, then 1500, and then finally, when its completely smooth, you can polish it. Let me warn you, if its not completely smooth before you polish it, EVERY little scratch and pit mark will show, so take the time to sand it right. It took me like 2 days just for the UIM.

bkm_rx7

im a cheap first gen guy...so ill be doing LOTS of work

did you do the LIM as well??? does it even show? PICS PLZ!

iceblue

lol Ive been polishing for 2 weeks now. Send it off the UIM is so frigin hard and time consuming. You will be sanding for over 25hrs.

Icemark

BKM are talking about inside the intake runners or being a ricer/poser and just the outside???

And BKM, you need to fix your signature. 6 lines is all that is allowed here. Your signature is currently double that.

iceblue

Look a few pages back for a engin cleaning thread. I posted pics of my walk through on my IC elbo.

iceblue

Perhaps some of us like our engin bays to look good as well :-/ Mine is polished inside and outside what does that make me? A uber cool ricer??


Ok here is some of my work right now that is finished.

Icemark

No, doing it right means neither.

Perhaps if you read my post you would have seen that I suggest that only doing the outside is poser (which falls under the ricer definition- looks good (well the owner thinks it looks good), but serves no useful performance advantage).

*edt< and after seeing your new pictures... I must say that is pretty ballsy to be polishing that ignitor... Pretty good way to ruin it, as well as reduce cooling to a needed electronic part.

bkm_rx7

how would i go about doing the interior or the mani's? i wont be able to send them off...but ive got access to LOTS of tools...

Mura

Ice....explain the performance gain of a polished intake, polished on the inside...not outside?

Icemark

Well the best (and probably most expensive) is to extrude hone them, but being unable to send them off, you could probably do a minor cleaning with a dremel/ die grinder and a set of flexible long wheels of various grades.

Icemark

Smoother air flow, increased air flow, increased HP

Mura

just by polishing the inside? Makes since, duh.....a noticeable gain, or what?

iceblue

View IceMarks reply ^ for the best way. I used a dremel and matched the ports between the LIM and UIM so they had no more over lap this reduces turbulance and restriction as well turbulance creates heat The smoother the surface IE polishing internals the smoother and faster air can flow. Thus creates more and or more posabilitys for added HP. I as well have a ported and polished TB.

iceblue

Who is the asshat ricer leaving me -rep points telling me I should not have polished my ignitors? For your ignorant *** I didnt! Try reading back through your frigin manual and see what a ignitor is. There is jack wrong with polishing the coil brakets and clenaing the mounting plate wile painting the coils plastic cover. Try knowing your **** next time kid.

fc3sfreek

iTrader: (6)

so because u make something look good w/out increasing performaance its being a ricer? so i guess putting a body kit is bein a ricer? and painting ur car is being a ricer as well? that doesnt make too much sense mark. i mean i respect u ,u post alot of helpful info. but that was just not one of them

Icemark

Not the place for this post here.

And who cares what people leave for rep points... I if cared, I'd be crying everytime some newbie got his panties in bunch for not reading the FAQ for FC.
Also not the place, but yes if you put a body kit on, or a big alum wing, and it only hurts the aerodynamics then it is rice. Paint the car because it needs it would not be rice, (well unless you painted it like some lame race car, but only drove the car on the street).

But again, not the place. Start a thread in the lounge on rice if you want to argue about it or try and justify your own modifications.

iceblue

If someone is going to be an asshat and n00b ricer wile doing it the lest they can do is post it publicly or on PM instead of hiding behind an anonymous rep message. That’s all.

bkm_rx7

ummm...k....so bad to the polishing the intakes...

is there anything else i should polish on a t2 that would help performance/look good (i want my engine bay to look good too) without overdoing it?

*edit* by the way...i fixed my sig

BklynRX7

Exactly, thats why bad rep points seems to be the weapon of choice for those homo-thug v8 guys. I swear everytime i say "hi" in any thread debating v-8s my rep points go down the crapper.

RotaryEvolution

iTrader: (30)

read through the thread, you'll see who left you the rep point