polishing

[da89cup]

Has anyone polished their upper intake or know where I can find info on how to do it & what materials I need, & by polishing I mean making it nice & shiny. I heard it's a pain but I want to try it. Thanks

[Dark Knight]

All you need here
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[skiwesser]

I use Never-dull for water spots, and mother billet polish, on wheels too.

[Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by skiwesser

I use Never-dull for water spots, and mother billet polish, on wheels too.

Those work good on something already polished, but not a rough finished intake

[skiwesser]

True enough, I wasn't thinking stock

[hemicross]

well i have a bike and i polished my frame, its the same concept, better to use phnuematic or whatever tools, like an angle grinder type deal, and get a couple of the small 2-3 inch pads thats a little stiffer then scotchbrite pad, just take out all the ruff surface area making sure not to take off to much or the finished product will look wavy, so just smooth it out, then once thats good go over it with somewhere around 400 grit sandpaper, then 800 grit, then an actual scotchbrite pad, the soft ones, then go over it again with a 1200 grit, now make sure when your doing this keep the sanding and surfacing all in one direction you dont want swirls or cross hatches, once you get all the done, run down to home depot or something and get a buffing kit in the tool area, comes with a couple buffing pads and the colored clay, 1st application is green, then white, then red, you need to use this on a pretty high speed tool, key is really light pressure at high speed, now dont get me wrong, the fibers from the pad are going to fly everywhere and make a mess but you will be happy with the mirror shine for a total cost of like $20 if you have the air-powered angle grinder already, the small one, spins at like 15,000 rpm or 10,000 either is good, once you start doing it yu'll know where to set the rpm on the tool at

[hemicross]

o yea one more thing, once your done with that its still gunna look cloudy, so your gunna need to use a good aluminum polish, i use some industrial one at the bike shop but i dont know what its called, its like blue crystal or something, but get a pretty expensive bottle, the more you pay in polishing chemicals the better chemical you actually get

[808foxtang]

I have a suggestion, when I polished the frame to my motorcycle, a friend of mine heard that using a good coat of Easy-Off Oven Cleaner, will remove the matte finish and will require less polishing to obtain a show finish. Be care of what you get the Easy-Off chemical on, it will remove any painted finish it touches. It works on a lot of aluminum alloy metals.