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Old 02-24-2002, 07:15 PM
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How long to polish?

does anybody have any guesses of how many hours it would take to polish intake,runner,plenum and throttle body? thanks
Old 02-24-2002, 07:23 PM
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A LOT.

It took me about a week of working on it after work for about 2-3 hours a night. It came out great though. That was just the plenum. I did both runners in one day, of non stop polishing. About 10 hours I think. Its a bitch to do it good.
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I'm alowwing 2 full days and 3 nights. I hope that'll do it. if not well then I'll be bumming a ride from people :-)
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5 min. but, I cheated, I had my girlfreinds dad do it at work they have a high speed polisher for instuments. took him 5 min. and look like a mirror. I also got a plenuim ext. from a 89 tpi vette. so it would match you will need new screws or take off you washers for the vette ext.
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LOL Must be nice :-)

do you have any pictures? I'd love to see em
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I don't have any pics right now. no digital camera any more. I will take tons of pics I have the car all tore down so I will be taking pics of every thing.
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oh If you can find a place by you that polishes band instuments they should do it real cheep being it takes them nothing to do it.
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