Thanks Rob, neither do I, but I'm taking my time so it might be a while.

You'll see it pretty soon though, stop by sometime...

 

Lol, honestly I was thinking about it too, but no I'm still keeping it.

 

What are you using specifically to polish these parts? mainly the comp housing and the UIm. Im having a hell of a time doing both.

 

Haha........ Finally you started the thread....... They look better in real life..... Great Job Brazha!

 

good for you. everything looks great and i bet driving the car after everything is done is going to excite you like no other.

 

just a suggestion, if you want to get all the buff marks out try using 2000 gritt or higher and wet sand, then polish, you shouldent be able to see any scraches after that.

 

Sand paper: 80, 120, 220 330, 400 & 600 than brown tripoli compund on a wheel & white rouge, sanding is the hard part,






Thanks Brazhha, yeah I'd say so to, pictures don't do the justice.





Thanks Matty, I can't wait for the driving part, I'm working over time to reach to that point.





I appreciate the suggestion you gave me, but honestly I'm not going back to the parts that are done already, definitely will keep that in mind though. Thanks.

 

looks great john. get some wenol,it's a polish and sealer.it will bring out the gloss and protect the parts from oxidation

 

Thanks, how would you rate this product, have you used it?

I'm still debating of what should I do as far as protecting the bling, I know for sure that on the altenator and TB (hard to maintain) I'm going to spray some diamond clear I got from eastwoodco.com, so I don't have to worry about the oxidation problem and there will be no more polishing there, just dry ragg whipe off.

So I don't know if I should spray all the polished stuff, or get some good polishing compound to maintain the shine?

 

OK, here are some more pics for your viewing pleasure.

TB now, much better than I thought!!!




A bit of a personal touch,

 

How many man hours on that TB?

 

Solid tork brace,
I made this one a while ago, out of some eye hooks (home depot) and angle aluminum for the fender bracket (I had layng around in my shop) so it looked like this:
This picture was taken year and a half ago...




Now I polished the eye hooks and put a polished pipe over the center piece for the bling-bling factor, also looks alot more genuine.

 

About 4.

 

wow, thats a lot-o-polishing

so when does work on the single start? im contemplating doing some kind of turbo upgrade in the near future, so im intrested to see how your's turns out

 

Yep, almoast done polishing though, I'm doing the altenator now, last piece.

God willing this saturday I'm going to pull out the twins, pulleys (sending them to powder coat) and injectors (sending them to RC ing.) also cleanup the engine bay while everything is out.

So by next week I should start putting things back together.

 

All I can say is " Help me! Call the ambulance! Take me to a rehab now!" Overdose!

 

Stay away from the erb...

 

OK the altenator finaly done, damn this ***** was a pain in the behind realy... also clear coated after polish.

Here are the befores and afters...

 

everything looks good, i wish i had the patience to do all that. i don't think wenol protects the finish, its just a polisher. u should try zoopseal

 

Thanks,
Yeah definitely takes alot of patience and hard work to achieve all that... I guess I'll just forget about the Wenol, I'll be getting some mothers polish or something from a local auto store... Realy non of the polishing products protect for a long time anyway, so I'm gonna have to go over twice a year and keep it cleanNshiny.

Alt, TB and some other small pieces I clear coated them, so I don't have to worry about them for a pretty long time... hopefully,

Zoopseal, heh, that thing is to expensive...

 

What parts are required to rebuild one?

 

You lost me there, rebuild what?

 

alternator

 

Ohh, I didn't rebuild it, just polish...


BTW, did the doode next door give you the money for the car damage?
I haven't folowed te thread lately!

 

DId you take it apart to polish it? If you did, how dificult was that?

BTW, your wife rox for gegtting you that turbo kit. Hang on to that one.