I finally had the chance to polish my parts back up today 10 months of neglect and dirt roads left my plenum, and well the entire engine compartment filthy.
Before

 

Before #2

 

After a few hours of fun

 

Side view, yes I even polished the IAC valve body :sillylol:

 

Awwww cute wittle v6..........

................. Just kidding!!



That looks crazy good!! That is a extremely good polishing job!!

 

Close up of the throttle body gun/with AIC

 

Heres the EGR tube and intake air to valve cleaner tube "whatever its called"

 

My 85 Camaro emblem, gotta love custom thing

 

How did you do that and can it be done without taking apart the pieces?

 

Well I guess I can put a V8 part on here too...This is WishmastersIROC Throttle body and gun, and thats not the completely finished version of it yet. TorchRays waterneck is in the top of the pic too.

 

With a diegrinder, and a bench grinder with polishing wheels, and over a years experiance in polihsing. It would be imposible with the parts all on the car, unless you used a high powered drill but that would make a huge mess in the engine compartment.

 

Nice work man.

That looks hot!



-Schultzy

 

:hail: :hail: wow!

 

Now you know next semester I'm going to be knocking down your door with a TPI assembly right? Just making sure you remember

 

Yep I still remember Whatcha takin at Fayetteville? I don't think I will be at the APA shows this summer

 

Looking good mike.

I've been planning to powdercoat a v6 intake. Of course, a coating can never shine like that.

You gotta teach me how to reach the small spots, I'm doing a set of valve covers for a friends dad, and the part around the bolt mounting holes and where the valve cover actually presses now, I can't get the wheel into. The 1/4" buffing felt bobs suck for me.

Any advice?

 

Wowsers. what a difference. nice work.

 

no doubt, that is sexy. im doing my iac and throttle body and ive never polished before. ive spent about 8 hours on it so far and im still not done with my 180grit. i cant even get the corners never mind the deep spaces. i got a dremel and have tried most accesories but nothign seems to work, how did you clean yours up?

 

Taking Comp. Engineering courses As far as the car and shows go...thats up in the air for me right now too. But I'm pretty sure their main show is in September.

 

wow, that looks great! wanna do my v6 next? and my remaining two rims?

 

That is insane.

What are you using to sand with? Are you using low grit compounds?

 

Your polishing by hand? Good luck doin a TB and Gun, it will probally be near impossible to do. I'm not to sure since I have never tried to polish by hand. I only use the expensive polishing equiptment, things can be done to a higher quality and wwaaaaaayyyyyy faster. I used 180,and 320 grits before polishing. Took me a little under 2 hrs with most of the nessicary equiptment to get all that done.

Freeze I'd love to do your stuff but shipping from/to Austria gotta be killer

Thanks for the compliments guys

 

dont be shy, tell us what you use

not just "expensive tools"

also, what addons/acessories for these tools?

 

I cant really tell all my Polishinginc secrets but heres what I basically use:
Polishing wheels
Polishing compounds
Sanding rolls/drums: 180,320 grit straight and taper rolls
DA Paper: 180,320 6' disks
Agh its all so expensive but worth it :O

 

bery bery nice.

 

Did some more

 

finished

 

Ok now with everything bolted in,

 

 

#2

 

#3, I even have stock chrome valve covers

 

u sure u didnt dip that in chrome? that looks amazing.

 

Last one for fun DA Hogs, now if I only had a trailer hitch to put this on

 

Nope not chrome diped, I havent bought the 3grand chroming kit I wanna get.

 

You should do your AC condensor and lines.

 

I would but I would have to remove everything and do my magic to it. I may in the future but not right now. Did a tune up to the motor too, purrs like a kitten and grunts like a hog because of the pass side exhaust leak Soon to be fixed when my newer exhaust manifold comes in.

 

Nice job. I cant believe you didnt clean up that filthy pulley on the alternator though.

 

Tommorow I'm going to de grease the engine, and paint the pulleys and the driver fender, its still white and not black.

 

:hail: Da Hogs! haha. Nice piece there man

 

Looks great man. Awesome polishing job. Makes that V6 looks real good.

 

wow very nice!

 

WOW, looks good man. How in the world do you get everything so smooth with sanding rolls/drums? Every time I use them on a corner or curve, I end up messing up the curves and flatting off the edges.

Have you ever tried sanding compound that you add to your buffing wheel? Like this from Eastwood Company: Item No. - 13132

 

I can sand pretty smooth in the tight areas as long as the dia of the sanding rolls are smaller than the area that I'm working on. Years practice helped out a bunch.
Yeah I use the compounds but they come in a bar form. Both ways use the same concept, grits in the compound to help polish better.

 

that looks awesome man. 100% better

 

That will make it nice

 

Did something for you v8 guys. I couldnt polish the lines on top cause I don't have the proper wheel to polish in inbetween those lines. Got the lil V6 all finished up sunday too

 

all u need to do is port that plenum

what polish do u use?

 

Nice but y a V6....They r so slow.....My freinnd has a '96 RS 3.8L and he got beat by a '96 Nissan P/U wit airbags......It takes soo much money to make a V6 as fast as a 350

 

Absolutely amazing work! I need to learn how to do some of that to my engine bay. Great looking stuff. The before and afters just floored me.

You do good work. How much do you charge for polishing?

 

billsfirebird, heres a link to my pricing page http://www.polishinginc.com./pricing.html

'86-5.7L-IROC, thats the motor she came with. Once I build my 82 Targa Z28 with a LT4 the SC will go in the shop for a facelift and get a LT4 powerplant All polished or Chromed{if I make enough money to buy chroming equiptment} engines of course.
Even thou she's a 6 polished parts make a Big difference.

SLP IROC-Z, I used black emery compound and white rouge compounds.