After many many many many many many many many many many many ........ many many many many hours of sanding I have completed one vette cover.

The results... you can see. They look like chrome. The downside... the casting in magnesium is not the greatest and as a result there are some black marks... look at the pictures.

They still look great. I don't know if I will keep them this way, dip them in chrome, anodize them blue... Dunno.

My plans originally were to finish polishing them (as I have) and then paint the little grooves blue. Maybe I'll still do that. We'll see.

 

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and lastly, 6 - this one shows the little bit of the valve cover that has the weird casting... the black part not the dots... the dots are just a reflection of my couch lol...

as i said i dunno what the hell i'm going to do with them.

i have a spare set at home i gotta get rid of too, still original. yikes!

 

you should paint the groves, that would look sweet

 

here's kinda what I have plans on doing. Using metallic blue paint...

same thing will happen to the grooves in my tpi... what do u think?

 

that would look sweet, by the way, beautiful car.

 

thank you sir

and here's a picture of my other vette cover.... as you can see i got alot of work still left on this one...

 

pic would help

 

yeah, you got a ways to go. Its amazing to watch and see the before and after products, its unbelievable. Nice work.

 

Actually this is how they started. I didn't use paint stripper, I sanded all the damn paint off took me forever.

I just don't like using that paint stripper stuff...

Ah well I guess I'm happy for now, but I still might go the anodizing blue or dipping in chrome route.

 

Nice job! With a proper buffing wheel you can make them even shine even more and get rid of the cloudiness. I can help you out on that if you want...let me know.

 

nice work! looks great.

 

Whoa, they look even better than I thought they would. Great job. Are they going on the hoopty?

 

duuuude get on msn.

 

Did you use Trpoli and White Rouge on them? If not try some, as it will cut literally hours off of your work. With those compounds, you do not need to sand past 400 grit wet. You will be amazed... I just tried it last week and I will NEVER go back.

 

Nice job
The black stuff in the #6 pic is called "gas" aka air pockets in the alluminum, theres absolutely nothing you can do to get rid of it other than making that area look as good as possible. The more and more you sand on that area the worse or better it might get, I would just sand a little more and see what you get. If it gets worse then just shine it up the best you can.

 

i didn't use any buffing wheels or nothing.

just by hand most of it, except a palm sander to sand the paint off...

 

they look pretty good.

i would chrome them, anodize them, or how about spray painting them flat black?