Engines! Lets see em!
11-03-2013, 07:27 PM
#35
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It's just aluminum, so lots of elbow grease and time. Polishing compound, wet sand, buffer and time. You can make any aluminum look like that, intake, Turbo, valve covers, whatever. Wear gloves and don't do your wet sanding in a tuperwear container, she got a little upset with that one.
11-04-2013, 07:04 AM
#38
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11-04-2013, 03:44 PM
#39
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11-05-2013, 01:42 PM
#44
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Sorry men, trying to wrap things up around the farm before winter hits.
if your cover has not been messed with and has the original paint it is super easy, pour some paint reducer on it and use a 1 inch paint brush with almost all the bristles cut of ( for maximum stiffness) and in 5 minutes it should be clean, then I used a bench grinder with a buffing wheel and rouge bars to polish it, don't take long really but you really need the buffer and bars.
(DO NOT SAND OR SAND BLAST) It will make it 100 times harder to get shinny.
probly no more than an hour in it, it really need clear on it so I don't need to do it every 2-3 months.
Dar
if your cover has not been messed with and has the original paint it is super easy, pour some paint reducer on it and use a 1 inch paint brush with almost all the bristles cut of ( for maximum stiffness) and in 5 minutes it should be clean, then I used a bench grinder with a buffing wheel and rouge bars to polish it, don't take long really but you really need the buffer and bars.
(DO NOT SAND OR SAND BLAST) It will make it 100 times harder to get shinny.
probly no more than an hour in it, it really need clear on it so I don't need to do it every 2-3 months.
Dar
11-05-2013, 02:22 PM
#45
Registered User
Sorry men, trying to wrap things up around the farm before winter hits.
if your cover has not been messed with and has the original paint it is super easy, pour some paint reducer on it and use a 1 inch paint brush with almost all the bristles cut of ( for maximum stiffness) and in 5 minutes it should be clean, then I used a bench grinder with a buffing wheel and rouge bars to polish it, don't take long really but you really need the buffer and bars.
(DO NOT SAND OR SAND BLAST) It will make it 100 times harder to get shinny.
probly no more than an hour in it, it really need clear on it so I don't need to do it every 2-3 months.
Dar
if your cover has not been messed with and has the original paint it is super easy, pour some paint reducer on it and use a 1 inch paint brush with almost all the bristles cut of ( for maximum stiffness) and in 5 minutes it should be clean, then I used a bench grinder with a buffing wheel and rouge bars to polish it, don't take long really but you really need the buffer and bars.
(DO NOT SAND OR SAND BLAST) It will make it 100 times harder to get shinny.
probly no more than an hour in it, it really need clear on it so I don't need to do it every 2-3 months.
Dar