well tonight i started some polishing on my runners, and a little more on the plenum, all this stuff done to the plenum was done by the prevous owner. when im done it should, i hope, look like its all been tripple cromed.













everything you see i sanded only with 180 so far, the left side also. thats all i have gotton done so far, but tomarrow i go and get the buffing wheels and compounds so after im done sanding i gat to ahve soem fun polishing.

 

last one, josh, screaminformula, did this before i bought it, did a good job but nothing compared to waht its going to be.

 

well, Shean, ya got a LOT ahead of ya, trust me. i worked with that plenum about 6 hours just to get that crappy (by most standards) finish. but good luck and maybe you will get it lookin better than i did since you have it off and i didn't. go look in the Tech section here and find out the proper procedure to do it, thats what i did...


good luck with her Shean!

Josh

 

Lookin good! Ya gonna do mine next? jk. By the way ill take that butterfly knife you have there on your desk, lol

 

dont forget to buy the aluminum plenum extension if you havent already...

 

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no, Kyle, no cutting in line, IM NEXT ASSHAT!!! just kiddin man! wait, no SHEAN, YOU KEEP SANDIN, YOU AIN'T GOT NO TIME TO AROUND!!!!


Josh

 

Just go through the steps of different grits and use some different compounds. It'll come out niiiice

 

Or pay to have it done

 

How much did that cost and where did you get it done? There are a couple pieces on my buddies boat that we want done but cant find a good place to do it.
Thanks
Brian

 

how many hours have you spent working on it so far?

 

well so far ive doen about 2.5 to 3 hours of sanding by hand with 150 grit. but then i retro fitted soem sand paper to the dremel and it took like 10 minutes to do the rest of the runners and plenum. today i start the wet sanding with 320, then 400.

i picked up yesterday 3 hard sanding wheels and 2 soft. im going 1 hard emery, 1 hard tropoli, 1 soft tropoli, one hard white rouge, then last 1 soft white rouge and they should turn out very nice.

kyle, if you want ill do this for you but i dont do it in your engine bay. you pull your TPI and ill do it for $50.

 

When u did it on ur motor did u have alot of sanding dust left all over ur motor? i wanna do it this way but dont wanna make to much of a mess. i just finished two rims and am very happy with the results

 

Yeah, that was the bad part...but.....after doing it..I just used a leave blower...300+ winds....got EVERYTHING perfectly clean :O)

 

sweet ill just crack out the big ole air compressor that fix her.

 

I know he isnt polishing rims, but when i started doin mine the clearcoat was really really hard to get off..so much as i had to etch it off the center of the rims w/a screwdriver..is that normal?

 

Did you use any kind of chemical stripper?

 

no i didnt cuz i read in a post somewhere that it ruins the rims