Polished TPI Plenum

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May 22, 2006 | 11:12 PM

TeK-91z28

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Car: 91 z28 convert

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Polished TPI Plenum

This is the TPI intake plenum I just polished for my buddy. Looks pretty good, he was originally going to go with a satin finish but I wasn't going to allow that.

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May 22, 2006 | 11:17 PM

deadbird

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Car: 87 Formula/ 00 Xtreme

Engine: TPI 305/ v6

Transmission: struggling t-5/ 4l60E

Axle/Gears: 3.08/ 3.23

Plenum looks quite nice

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May 22, 2006 | 11:29 PM

hihighost

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Car: 1987 Camaro

Engine: Carb'd L31 Vortec 350

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Axle/Gears: 4th gen torsen / 3.23

Plenum looks purty.

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May 22, 2006 | 11:30 PM

Sonix

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what did you use? sand it first? rouge polish? dremel, die grinder? how long did that take you?

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May 23, 2006 | 01:57 PM

roachjuice

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heres mine...

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May 23, 2006 | 10:10 PM

TeK-91z28

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Well I work for a wheel refinishing shop, and we also do polishing... Which I am slowly moving into. The polishing division that is.

Basically I palm sanded it from 180 - 400 and then hit it with the buff. It took me about 45 minutes with these tools.

May 24, 2006 | 11:24 PM

crazyL

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so say if i was doing it by hand what would i need.

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May 25, 2006 | 09:40 AM

MaineIrocer86

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you got any pics of what it looked like before?

May 25, 2006 | 08:02 PM

TeK-91z28

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Like a stock VERY dirty manifold.

I don't know how you'd polish that by hand man, it would take FOREVER.

May 25, 2006 | 09:55 PM

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FirebirdNYC

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im actually attempting to polish my tpi setup also, i got the plenum to look just as good as that and i still need some wetsanding and actual polish. Got instructions from the main page on this site . i got the plenum to 600 and im working on the runners now. those arent going to come out as nice as the plenum though.