I'm looking for a business to send out my plenum, runners, and intake to get polished. Where do you guys recommend? What are you experiences and feedback from places you've sent stuff? Thanks.

 

If you can't find someone locally....

There is a guy selling that stuff polished / and or powder coated on Ebay... do a search for TPI polished and look...he has some nice pictures...

Rafael

 

Dude you should go down to the biggest truck stop near you and find the most pimped out semi, and ask the owner who does his polishing. Most truck stops/ washes do in house polishing, and you might get that stuff done for a cheap price.

Just a thought, Later man
Brandon

 

give me a PM / call if you like.
not the best pic's but I can take more if you like.

Lok at the bottle to the side.
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/mis...ght/IROCZ3.jpg


or the reflections in these emblems
http://www.cecoatings.com/rocky/DSC03318.JPG
or some valve covers.
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/fs/DSC03244.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/fs/DSC03240.JPG
http://www.cecoatings.com/images/fs/DSC03241.JPG

The pic's DEFF! dont do any of these parts justice.

 

I used to do pollishing and it was a two day job for a tpi set up. The plenum is not hard to pollish but the runners and the intake-It sucks. Most people polish the plenum and have the runners and intake ceramic coated with an almost chrome finish. Thatts the cheapest. But if you want the whole thing polished your looking at 300+.

 

...for the record I went with TPI383/CE Coatings to do this job for me. The result was horrible. See this page for all the details;

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/afte...ml#post3445472

 

I tried to polish my TPI rig myself and it was a beautiful disater. I scratched the living hell out of my plenum and gave up after that.

I found Rick's Custom Polishing in Washington state:
http://www.fastcoolcars.com/TPI-polished-and-more.htm

I think he did a real good job. I sent him all of MY parts and got back exactly what I shipped, only shiney! He polished my plenum, runners, and water neck. Powdercoated the fuel rails and manifold.

He has complete sets to buy or you can send him your stuff. The price seems reasonable considering how difficult a reputable vendor is to come by.

I will probably have him do my accessory brackets too when it comes time for aluminum pulleys.

 

I've not had any work done by Rick's yet... but I have sold him tpi parts and I know he does nice work, sells many pieces on Ebay and I have other friends that have bought from him and were happy too...

Raf

 

hey can i get some pics of your set up? I was thinking of doing something similar

 

Sure, you can go to my Myspace page, it's in they are in the "The BOSS" album.

http://www.myspace.com/BOSS355

 

sorry dont have myspace, you have them on photo bucket?

 

EDIT: in case I am wrong about membership to MS, here's a couple of pics. (Sorry the one is so big)