Jproz1167

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only things I used to polish my stuff was a palm sander, drum sanding things for my drill, cone sanding things for my drill and alot of sandpaper and polishing compound ... just time consuming is all

rgrismer

For aluminum polishing I have been using a dremel with a stainless steel brush. It works very well.

Jproz1167

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heres the bottom and back of my plenum polished ... wasn't worried about a perfect shine just a shine to look good.

rgrismer

Lots of polishing to go.

Jproz1167

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Yeah had I known just how long this was going to take I would have sold this thing as scrap aluminum. But it's turning out pretty nice, tomorrow I should have it 95% done then I'm going to go after the areas that still need attention and finish this sucker and sell it.

rideon1200

Parts on the kitchen table....you must be single!

Jproz1167

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yep divorced and loving it!

Jproz1167

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Just curious do you think it's a good idea to polish a stock throttle body for this system or do you think someone will use a larger throttle body on this system anyways?

Jproz1167

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semi finished the plenum today ( keep in mind all parts are only buffed with emery so far ) ..... anyways its coming out pretty nice for my first attempt at polishing .. will have to work on quite a few areas that I didnt do to great, the pits in the runners have to stay unfortunately but even so from 3 feet this system looks great compared to what it used to ( god it was bad and I use that term lightly ) ..... The plenum got the cloudy affect up front not really sure why it did it, but I can not get it to come out for some reason. It had this cloudiness when I started on the plenum but it was alot worse (maybe a chemical got on the plenum before I got it) anyways just took these a few minutes ago.

Jproz1167

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heres why I wanted to do the bottom of the plenum so its unpolished cast state wouldnt reflect on anything else. Yes I know behing the runners are badddd and need 911 to help.

bodybag

wow drool. nice job. the mold polishers at work gave me green buff it a light green bar. i used it on my buffing wheel and holy s&^% bring the shine right out.

FSTFBDY

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The cloudyness is prob from getting it to hot. Try using a little more compound when buffing it.

Jproz1167

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I will give that a try TPI383

Thanks

Jproz1167

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Well today I broke down the whole fuel rail and removed the ugly nasty and chipping protective coating on my fuel lines. The picture taken is of nothing polished I'm just in the prepping stages right now and still have to sand everything down. I was going to do the ends of the soft lines but whats the point nobody is dumb enough to use used pressure line (well I hope not) I will ebay these soft lines LOLOL and see if there is someone J/K of course. Anyways here they are.

Jproz1167

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Still have some to go but my fuel rails and fuel lines are almost done.

Jproz1167

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Here is the base of my fuel pressure regulator .... needs final polishing but like all the other parts it shined up nicely as well .... going to spen the rest of the day on doing my fuel rail and will post pics of it later.


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When I removed the diaphram from the regulators cap a ball bearing fell out ... where does this go ???????

Jproz1167

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OK ... soooooo this one is bound to bring on the wolf's and the anti smog guys LOL ... while most are tossing these believing it will get them horsepower I've even decided to detail my EGR valve. I have to smooth the base of it down some more but it's coming along nicely too.

Jproz1167

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SYSTEM IS NOW FOR SALE

IT'S NEEDS MINOR FINISHING BUT AS YOU CAN SEE IT LOOKS GREAT AS IS. HONESTLY I CAN NOT LET IT GO FOR LESS THEN 800.00

Jproz1167

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Sorry I messed up ..... the lowest I can take for this system is 900.00 this does NOT include shipping charges. I will be also polishing it a little better with white rouge beforwe it goes bye bye ...... I do have a set of 2,300 mile 350 injectors however my friend that has them is currently out of town for 2 weeks, they are lucas injectors ...... It is a very nice looking system but it will need the following & believe me when I say a stock unit can't even compare to the looks of this in any way or probably performance as well ... the lower intake is a edelbrock however I grinded off the edelbrock logo on the front runner for cleaner looks it is a edelbrock 3860 though .... the runners are first design SLP's with two completely siamesed runners per side, the other two runners I beileve are called semi siamesed.

looks like previous owner of this stuff ported things and gasket matched the intake and runners ... I bought it from a guy on here I believe his name was my86z28 or something like that.

O-rings for ALL fuel lines replaced ((( highly recommended )))
throttle body (( system is suited better for a much larger then stock TB ))
thermostat housing ((unless I find mine and polish it too ))
bolt kit
associated system sensors

I will have it finished and ready for shipping by the 1st of december

hope this thread helped you all in someway to polish your systems and make them very nice ... it's been a fun project for me and my next one will be a 85-88 stock system that I have in the garage

8T9 BANDIT

so is that for an 89? if so i want dibs.

Jproz1167

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to work on a 1989 you would have to plug the map sensor port (i think 89 was a MAF car) the manifold is drilled for your style of heads as well as early style and corvette heads .... but if your car has the cold start injector this WILL NOT work on your car.

It is designed to work on 1990-1992 f-bodies and possibly 1989 since I believe 1989 didnt have the cold start injector.

It will also fit 1990-1991 corvettes and still be emmisions legal.

8T9 BANDIT

yes 89 is a maf,, and i does not have a cold start injector. ill have to do some research to see if it will work.

Jproz1167

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Since you don't have the cold start injector all you have to do is plug the plenum vaucuum port for the MAP sensor is all.

Jproz1167

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I HAVE THIS SYSTEM IN A FOR SALE AD .... PLEASE RESPOND THERE TO ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT

THANK YOU

1989GTATransAm

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Right. It would cost maybe a dollar for the plug.

Jproz1167

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Here is a last picture of my fun little project ..... I will probably start updating this next month since I have a 1986 TPI system in my garage that I have decided to polish as well. The 86 unit should be much easier to do since it was nowhere as bad as this one was when I got it. .... Might actually polish stuff out on my trans am's motor too. .....

anyways here ya go ... tomorrow I will put it together and take one last picture of it out in the sun.

Jproz1167

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here are two more pics for you. I actually found the thermostat housing hahaha was right where I left it, in my boot hahaha.

solaris_vii

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just wondering if you or anybody knew if you could do the same type of polishing on the valve covers? this post inspired me to polish my tpi setup on my 85 iroc. ive only been doing it for two days now, only done the distributor cover but its like night and day. i think doing the valve covers too would look real good. thanks again

Jproz1167

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post a picture of them as well as your work. I don't care if others post there pictures on this thread.
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85's had grey/silver painted vavle covers didn't they? Or do you have something different on the car?

solaris_vii

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yea, i had a feeling they are painted. i actually hav e two cars with a tpi setup, my 85 iroc and my 85 vette. my original plan was to polish everything on the vette because its parked and then throw that on the iroc because i drive it everyday, but now i think the plan is to just do both. i know the vettes valve covers are aluminum and they are in DESPERATE need of a cleaning. unfortunately i didnt have batteries in my camera so i couldnt take a before pic, so i just dragged up an old picture of the whole engine on the vette and then theres an after of the distributor cover. that only took one nights worth of work. not bad. side note: the vette is for sale, pm if anyone is interested.

solaris_vii

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took one more pic outside, think the natural light adds to the lustre.

Jproz1167

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The vettes valve covers are possibly magnesium "be careful" if they are and read up on polishing them if they are. If you do the vettes system go all out and do it's serpentine system and all that would look really nice.

I have a 82 corevtte that I am going to polish it's cross-fire system, 84 vette air cleaner, valve covers and it's serpentine system.
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OH, nice work on the plenum extension it came out pretty nice!

solaris_vii

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good catch, ill have to read up on that. i guess polishing all that depends on how quickly i get it sold! i also have an 82 vette, its a collectors edition with 20k miles all original so....wont be doing any polishing on that one! im looking to take it to bloomington gold this year, shooting for top flight. i used to be a huge corvette fan until i bought my iroc as a backup and well, i liked it more so it took over and now the 85 vette is my backup. ill post more pics as i get more done

Jproz1167

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Mines nothing special but it has been turned into a convertible by using 1975 convertible parts. I had planned on putting this system on my vette but it needs enough work as it is, so no TPI on it LOL.

solaris_vii

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i bet that looks real sharp, i always loved the nose and rear bumper of the 80-82 but they didnt make conertibles in that time period. done right i bet it looks real good. got any pics?

Jproz1167

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looks just like a factory one, has the flipup lid for the top and all. Not really sure if I have any of it, besides needs paint and interior so it's not worthy of pictures LOL.

IceBlue91z28

i ported and polished my tpi setup as well. here is a pic or 2

Jproz1167

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Well, I got bored today and decided to polish my stock 1986 TPI system. This however is missing the fuel rail so I will have to find another one as well as and aluminum extension plate for the plenum. Overall its a pretty nice intake with very minor dings in the drovers side runner.

The great thing about this system is I also have an ECM harness for it as well and will detail that and replace all broken conectors on the harness and just detail it really nice as well. I've learned a few shortcuts along the way to speed up the process so this one should be done alot quiker.

I will try and photgraph all the progress this time so you can really see what needs to be done to a system to get it nice.

If any of you have the following parts please let me know!

complete 85-88 fuel rail
TPI thermostat housing
aluminum plenum extension

Pictures will be coming soon!
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I like it. The valve covers add a nice touch to it! Are you going to do the alternator and other parts to?

Jproz1167

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OK well, I started on the 1986 manifold since I like getting the hard stuff done first. Right now I am just in the process of grinding down cast lines, GM logo's and removing the coarse surface .... It seems to be coming along nicely though. I should have this done in a week since I am very slow.


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You can see right on the front of the manifold above the sensor holes where I grinded of GM logos there and gave it a quik polish and it shined right up. I am going to remove all the logo's right down to the firing order logo as well. I just prefer the cleaner looks of no logo's on the manifold is all.

solaris_vii

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i know where you can get a plenum extension if you REALLY need one comes prepolished too!

Jproz1167

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did you give up on polishing already LOL

solaris_vii

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ha hardly! ive got one of those professional 6000 rpm buffers, spent the whole summer color sanding the car and polishing the wheels...not giving up now! gonna start the plenum tomorow and finish the runners by the end of the week. doubt im going to do the intake since that would require buying new gaskets and i sure dont have the money for that. but i will be doing the whole serpentine system like the alternator bracket things like that, i think it will look real sharp when its done

Jproz1167

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Well, I got all the casted logo's off so far and probably about 50% of the rough surface casting knocked down ... where the intake to head bolts are geeeez that is some very bad casting in that area that will take some serious time to smooth all that out. I missed a little bit of the firing order logo bu thats only cause I couldn't find my dremel LOL.

All in all seems to be coming along pretty good this one is by far easier to do then my edelbrock was so it shouldn't take me long to finish the intake.

Jproz1167

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I'de take the time and do the intake manifold to. They come out alot better when you do that too.

solaris_vii

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well, i suppose the car isnt going anywhere anyways. i guess this would be a good time to port it too

Jproz1167

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Well made some more progress on the manifold today as well as casting removal on this systems plenum as well .... heres the intake still have alot to go though but even so its starting to shape up. all I've used so far is drum sanding rolls for my drill to get this far. mostly 120 grit rolls.

Tobias05

nice! TPI is dead sexy. awesome workmanship.

Jproz1167

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I took and polished a small section of the rear runner and it immediately shined up .... by next weekend I should have the rest cklose to done. you can see your reflection in this part of the runner however the camera shot wasn't great.

Jproz1167

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Thank you for the compliment.

Jproz1167

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well, I gave this 86 intake a couple more hours of work today. I am finding in almost all the areas after I break through the coarse surface then comes a very not pitted areas more like dimples in the surface .... I am finding 80 grit gets down to a better working surface quite quikly .... Just have to be careful with sanding drums of this grit. After I did that 120grit seemed to bring the surface out quite nicely.

In some ways the edelbrock manifold I did was harder and yet at the same time easier then a factory manifold. So it's really a toss up to which one is harder. the placewment and less bad areas to sand on the factory one make it easy to do compared to an edelbrock ... However these dimples and uneven surface is pretty frustrating, the edelbrock never had this.

Heres a picture. I am working with 120grit in most areas however still have a few areas I have to grind down and blend back in but it is coming along faster then I though.