polished intake plenum and T/B

surfbeast · 04-28-2003, 07:36 PM

I've been looking for dress up items and things to do to the "BEAST" now that most of my HP desires have been met. I decided to try to polish the sorry looking Plenum and T/B. Here is a pic of the plenum that does not do it justice. It took about 4 hours to do with a dremel tool. I will post how if anyone cares to know. What do ya think? hope the pic inserts!

CADreamin · 04-29-2003, 07:57 AM

That looks nice...I did the same thing a few years ago with an Edelbrock intake I was putting on my old Grand Prix...took the Dremel route...about a month later, it was done! Way too many little corners and nooks on that thing!

Here's a link to a good website on polishing, if you're interested...might have been posted here before...

Polishing made easy

sleeper_stang_2000 · 06-08-2003, 09:06 PM

What attachments did you use to polish the intake (on the 4.6 intake)? Did you use any chemicals?

mlambrecht82 · 06-09-2003, 04:36 AM

You should port and polish the inside of the plenum now. I did that a few weeks a go to mine, it was pretty fun, dyno test show 4.9 HP and 11 torque if I remember right. I used my dremel, make sure that you get ride of the bead on the top side that is what gets ride of the turbulence, make sure you where a mask though, I didn't, and I was coughing up silver mucous for a few days. I think I will pull my plenum off a gain and polish the outside. That looks nice. MAybe I should do that to my procharger too.

04-29-2003, 07:57 AM	#2
CADreamin Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 93	That looks nice...I did the same thing a few years ago with an Edelbrock intake I was putting on my old Grand Prix...took the Dremel route...about a month later, it was done! Way too many little corners and nooks on that thing! Here's a link to a good website on polishing, if you're interested...might have been posted here before... Polishing made easy __________________ Greg 98 Mustang GT Coupe

06-08-2003, 09:06 PM	#3
sleeper_stang_2000 Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: south florida Posts: 45	What attachments did you use to polish the intake (on the 4.6 intake)? Did you use any chemicals? __________________ 2000 GT Coupe Automatic! CAI, X-Pipe, Eibach Pro, 100 Shot NOS Best run: 12.187 @112.9 w/ 1.75 60ft. 3ft Above Sea evel

06-09-2003, 04:36 AM	#4
mlambrecht82 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 101	You should port and polish the inside of the plenum now. I did that a few weeks a go to mine, it was pretty fun, dyno test show 4.9 HP and 11 torque if I remember right. I used my dremel, make sure that you get ride of the bead on the top side that is what gets ride of the turbulence, make sure you where a mask though, I didn't, and I was coughing up silver mucous for a few days. I think I will pull my plenum off a gain and polish the outside. That looks nice. MAybe I should do that to my procharger too. __________________ _________________________________ 04 Cobra densecharger CAI BBK off road X pipe Custom Electronic Exhaust cut outs Tuning via Diablo Predator Ported and polished Throttle body and plenum Line locker (for the smoke shows) Stock boost 412 rwhp 379 rwtq