Starting to polish my Performer

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

I plan on having most of the sanding done tonight! Haha like that will eve happen but I'm going to try to get most of it done tonight then polish it up tomorrow. I've only been working on it for about an hour now after I removed the coating. I got the aircraft remover from Discount Auto Parts but it was in a spray can and worked great but just one thing, watch out for that damn overspray! Heres a progress picture so of what I've done so far. Been using a diegrinder with some sort of black sanding disk on it that my dad had in his tool box and a pair of oakley dirtbike goggles to keep the crap out of my eyes Let me know what you think so far for only sanding for an hour

ARed1995GT · Apr 17, 2004

looks nice so far

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

about 45 minutes later

WhiteDevil · Apr 17, 2004

Wow the looks great!!! Stop though ur giving me ideas!!

94GTLaserRC · Apr 17, 2004

Watcha do, sand off the lettering?
RC

AznStanger3v · Apr 17, 2004

94GTLaserRC said:
Watcha do, sand off the lettering?
RC

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

No... I took a grinder to that. I didnt care if it said Edelbrock or not on the top... Kinda anoying it being there (to me at least) Plus makes it a lot easier to sand/polish that spot.

Sanded 220 with the DA sander

Joes95GT · Apr 17, 2004

You guys have way more ambition than I do. I HATE polishing stuff. My GT40 was all tore up. I went at it with 120 and after about 2 minutes, I was like F-this. I layed her down and sprayed it black with some high temp stuff. Good enough for me .

That thing is looking killer. I think it looks much better now that you took the Edelbrock logo off .

Joe

cjman15 · Apr 17, 2004

Man, that looks awesome. I'd like to do that to mine. I only have a stock intake tho, haha Still would look pimp... keep it up

94GTLaserRC · Apr 17, 2004

1105 said:
No... I took a grinder to that. I didnt care if it said Edelbrock or not on the top... Kinda anoying it being there (to me at least) Plus makes it a lot easier to sand/polish that spot.

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

Thanks Joe. I dont mind polish stuff... I just hate the sanding part Well I'm headed back out to work on it. Gotta have it done by tomorrow afternoon/night so I can stick it back on my car so I can drive it again.

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

94GTLaserRC said:

At least its still an edelbrock and not like that fake typhoon one you have

stang_gt_1994 · Apr 17, 2004

I did all mine by hand except the polishing part. It was hell I tell you.

HoofnIt · Apr 17, 2004

I sand, I sand, I sand, I polish, I polish, I polish.......shhrrrgggg....I hate my Cobra intake.

I wish I would have got an Edelbrock, looks much easier to polish. Can't wait to see the results.

1105 · Apr 17, 2004

stang_gt_1994 said:
I did all mine by hand except the polishing part. It was hell I tell you.

its turning out that I have to go back over everything with 100 and up grit paper by hand but thats ok... The DA sander took down the ruf surface so I just have to remove the sanding marks Theres some places the sander cant get to and its a PITA to sand by hand so theres still some pits there, but its down at the base of the intake so it wont be THAT noticable... Gawd I need to get some better sanding tools.

1105 · Apr 18, 2004

Ok I finally got it all sanded down and ready to be polished There are some small scratches on it from the previous grit paper but the compounds should take them out most of the way if not all the way out. Heres now it sits right now, I'm going to polish it up tomorrow and post some more pictures.

4Jenna · Apr 18, 2004

Lookin' Good!

stang_gt_1994 · Apr 18, 2004

Make sure you get to about 220-320 grit or the shine will not be as good.

1105 · Apr 18, 2004

Thats mostly 600 and some 1500... the 1500 got clogged really easily but 220 got sanded the best, 320 was pretty good, 400 was alright, 600 was tolerable, 1500 I just stopped caring lol But I did get a good 220-320 sanding done to it

94GTLaserRC · Apr 18, 2004

1105 said:
At least its still an edelbrock and not like that fake typhoon one you have

Another post by Zach..It's not a FAKE Typhoon, it is a REAL Typhoon. Seems to me that the smarter of the 2 is the one that paid $200 less, ALREADY came polished, AND has a higher power band, but I dont know...that's just me
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