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just curios about those of you that have taken the stock painted intake manifolds/valve covers and polished them to a chrome like mirror finish. what are your methods for doing this.

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haha alot of elbow grease, sand paper, and some time :lol: But thats pretty much how Ive done my plenum...

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any pics? what about polishing? did you use any special type of compound, or just polishing or rubbing compound?

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You don't need to worry about polishing until you sand the shit out of everything..

 

I used BlueMagic.

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yeah Ive been sandin my plenum by hand for 2 days. It still not where it needs to be either.

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this is mine after a few hours of work

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The top looks wiggly because my dumbass got grease from my fingers on there when i picked it up :lol:

 

But yea, sand the shit out of it. I used like 120 I think to get the coating off. Then went 220/320/400/600/800/1000/2000. Just know that between grits, sand in different directions until the previous sanding is completely GONE, then you can move to the next grit and do the same. I use a mother's polish. It's the little jar that's like 10 bucks, it works fuckin amazing. (This pic was before any polish)

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