I am looking for pics of FD engines with polished intake pipes. I currently have the Apexi intake painted blue. I am slowly having everything polished. I want to see the different options for polished intake pipes before I decide what I am going to do.

Here's the engine bay as of today...

 

In need of a cleaing. but good anyway: )

 

Here, I'll give apneablue a little more face time....

 

not mine, but sure is blingin'

 

Thanks rynberg!

Fastrx7Man: I used to have the apexi intakes like you do and I polished them...it was a biatch though!....I now have the Airinx which I also polished...It's in the pic above...but here are the polished Apexis...



It was a lot of time invested to polish them...about 6-8 hours of sanding and polishing but it was worth it...I ended up selling them on this forum for $170...I feel like an idiot because I saw an unpolished one sell for a little over $200

 

Hey appneaublue can u tell me exactly how to polish your pipes..Any help is appreciated..

 

That is RTS3GEN's car in the picture posted by xstacy7. Send him a PM, he'll be more than happy to tell you about it. BTW, that's an old pic of his car. I believe everything is polished under the hood now.

 

 

can anyone tell me what to start on the grit on polishing my ic pipes.Is 100 to 400 correct?

 

I say 80- 320...I got mine just going from 80-200-320-buffing wheel.

 

I love your engine bay Bill.

 

You want real bling you better go alot further than that. Try 1600 grit, and dont even get me started about micron..

 

Give me another couple of weeks and it will look a ton better

 

 

fd3boost can u give me some instructions on how to polish the ic piping....

 

You might have to cut and paste the links. Like the duct tape? Anyway this is the HKS RS kit, it comes with polished intake pipes.

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MxeTU0MQ%3D%3D

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...MxeTU0MQ%3D%3D

 

http://www.nopistons.com/forums/inde...T&f=66&t=8827&

There ya go

 

Damian do me a favor and get rid of the filter for the 2 one way valves oh I mean BOV's gotta intimidate the honda's now don't we? I think that setup you have will cause some unwanted backpressure on your turbos b/c the air can't excape fast enough

 

if it's one thing I have learned about polishing is that it's all in the preparation (sanding). I think I achieved just as good as anyone can stopping at 320...However, my buffing wheel time was probably a lot longer than yours...I think the more time you spend sanding is the less time you will spend on the wheel...Personally I prefer spending more time at the wheel...It's more fun..

More Bling for you viewing pleasure.

 

I have been wanting to polish the same blue Apexi intake as fastrx7man for some time now, but from everything I've been reading it's a time-consuming project.

Today, I took the first step by stripping off that nasty blue paint. To my surprise, it took no time at all and the aluminum looks great AS IS. The polishing can wait...

 

 

You might be right, your parts look goo din the pics.
It's hard to say without seeing yours and my work side by side.

 

Here is mine.

 

Ha ha I remember naming that pic. Yeah his car is alot different now.

 

I just got these.. but i'm going to repolish them...