Polishing an Intake....

VibrantRedGT

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HoofnIt said:

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Did you eat when it was finished?

 

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yellow1995Cobra

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Polishing sucks period. I started my intake, im about 3/4 the way there, but just dont feel like finishing it. If i did it again i would pay some polishing company to do it, well worth the money IMO. Or better yet, try and score an already polished intake in the classifieds or ebay.

 

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VibrantRedGT said:

Did you eat when it was finished?

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Looks like he was keeping it warm...

 

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My wife bless her heart, she made dinner for me that night. I spend alot of free time down in the basement working on that darn thing. I ended up reheating dinner as it was cold by the time I got upstairs. If you chose to hand sand the intake it would take twice as long. Best thing I have found is a Mouse sander with 80, 120, and 220 grit. After this you will have to hand sand with the 320 and 400 grit. I bought an intake polishing kit from the Eastwood Co. which has sanding rolls, both tapered and straight. By the way, I will take some updated pics as the intake looks much nicer now.

 

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well I purchased an angle grinder and all the sandpaper I need last night. I'm going to try polishing my stock intake before I do anything with the edelbrock. If the polish comes out good on the stock intake, I'm going to port it as well and maybe try to get a few bucks out of it. As bad as it sounds, I'm doing the stock one for fun because I have NOTHING else to do.

 

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wow that does sound pretty bad. Working on a stock piece because you have nothing else to do Post pictures of the progress and you can do my stock intake if you want to too

 

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well, i started doing mine today, worked on it about two hours. I got the air grinder on it with a brillo pad to get the powdercoating off, i think it's comming along rather nicely. not too bad. im gonna go get some sand paper tomorrow. I appreciate the help guys!

 

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do you guys think it would be ok if i started polishing my intake while it was still on my car? Need to minimize downtime as much as i can so i figure why not, im only polishing the parts you can see and im going to use an electric sander.

 

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That would be fine... Just throw some towels around it so you wont get dust and polishing compound all over your car.

 

haulbalz

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hope you have a good back

 

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haulbalz said:

hope you have a good back

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I was thinking the same thing If you can, just take saturday and sunday one week to polish it up... Thats what I'm going to be doing this weekend since I dont have to work Pictures will also be posted

 

95snoozer

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is there a place where I can get a new placque for the top? I have a cobra sitting here to replace the GT40 I have. The plaque is kindof scratched up.

I am already porting and polishing the inside and lower runners.

also, how do I clean out all the fine metal dust inside the runners?

 

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I got the pre polished Typhoon Intake, but then had to "repolish" it because it had ugly yellowed clear coat and looked like A$$.

here it is compared to the Edel:

here it is after I redid it (took about 5 hours)

Here it is in the car:

Good Luck
RC

 

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RC, is that your RPM intake? Still got it? Wanna trade plus some money for my performer? And how about polishing mine up for me... You did such a great job on the typhoon

 

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Hoofnit - Your wife must have killer insight on what makes a guy happy (food) she rocks

Hey here is a good website for polishing supplies and information, the people are great and will answer your questions in their forum. I'd love to get started on a polishing project if I were to pick up an extra intake somewhere. . . Or maybe do it to the stock one and buy a Typhoon or something.

http://www.caswellplating.com/