How to Polish intake Manifold

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:05 am

I think Rock-It is in syd... so i presume there...

But there should be plenty of powder coaters here in brisbane, Yang... Give em a call

Post by **BorepYano** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:19 am

FtoSam wrote:I think Rock-It is in syd... so i presume there...

But there should be plenty of powder coaters here in brisbane, Yang... Give em a call

yeah i probably will actually, remember a qld member used to do powder coating... the guy with the red rims remember him? pitty he's no longer on here and also no longer at his old job

eThix · Post by **eThix** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:46 am

muahahahhaha

i think my mate does powder coating for Rims. i know he can do body kits for me i just need to sand them down and just have them ready to paint

i will check if his happy to help use out as well.

Post by **BorepYano** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:50 am

eThix wrote:muahahahhaha i think my mate does powder coating for Rims. i know he can do body kits for me i just need to sand them down and just have them ready to paint i will check if his happy to help use out as well.

xoxo

lol

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:53 am

eThix wrote:muahahahhaha i think my mate does powder coating for Rims. i know he can do body kits for me i just need to sand them down and just have them ready to paint i will check if his happy to help use out as well.

Powder coating bodykits??? You can do that?

eThix · Post by **eThix** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:27 pm

FtoSam wrote:
eThix wrote:muahahahhaha i think my mate does powder coating for Rims. i know he can do body kits for me i just need to sand them down and just have them ready to paint i will check if his happy to help use out as well.

Powder coating bodykits??? You can do that?

ahahha no not body kits, just rims

he can paint body kits

sorry for the confusion.

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:52 pm

lwrida wrote:rock_it can you keep me posted about that

I want to powdercoat my manifold, some sort of black not sure which one though

Sure can ...

BorepYano wrote:ooOooO, powder coating will save me many more months of searching for white rims lol.
but where is your friend?

Yep in Syd ... But if you end up using my mate... You can post parts to me and I will look after them for ya ... I see him pretty regularly now ...

robsta · Post by **robsta** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:05 pm

BorepYano wrote:
eThix wrote:muahahahhaha i think my mate does powder coating for Rims. i know he can do body kits for me i just need to sand them down and just have them ready to paint i will check if his happy to help use out as well.
xoxo lol

Lol Yang, that made me laugh, everyone in the office just stared at me

I'm sure I've seen an ad somewhere for a company that specialises in powder coating car parts in Brisbane, Ill see if I can dig it up

Post by **aza013** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:19 pm

mmmmmmm will have to have a chat to you rock_it about this as it sounds good dyno day would be a good time or this weekend if your coming along

rock_it · Post by **rock_it** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:22 pm

This weekend is not too good for me ... Spent last weekend with the boys (cruising on my motorbike) ... So I promised the little lady we would attempt another driving lesson ....

Wish me luck ....

sp8ced22 · Post by **sp8ced22** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:00 pm

im from the UK ftooc, and have polished my own manifold see pic below, before you start be prepared for a lot of hard work as it can be a pig of a job made easier if you buy this

EBAY LINKY which is what i used.

start with 800grit wet and dry and work your way throug to 1200grit (remember the more effort you put in at this stage the better the results will be. i used grinding stone to remove cast marks on edges and stuff. once your happy that the surface is nice and smooth its now time to use above kit from ebay either with drill of better with bench grinder as it makes it a lot easier i would suggest splitting your manifold into its 3 parts to make things easier and allows you the opportunity to give it a good cleaning and remove all the oil and gunk inside

the kit above comes with full instructions start with coarse polishing soap and wheel and work through them till you use the final polishing soap and soft wheel liberally polish with belgom ally (polish) or similar and i got the below results i replaced all the OE bolts with Purple Alu ones as it looks loads better

this was just after finishing sanding process

This was after using polishing mops and alu polish

maggsy · Post by **maggsy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:36 am

that looks AWSOME!!!

And those purple bolts just complete it

jonowong · Post by **jonowong** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:33 am

those bolts!!! where'd u get them from?!

sp8ced22 · Post by **sp8ced22** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:24 am

thanks guys

got the bolts from this place here in the uk http://www.bsr-aerotek.com/store/ they normally do bike bolts but if you know the sizes you can order them ive sen them on ebay too

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:36 am

God damn it! Just when i think I'm getting close to 'finishing' my baby, you go and show me something like that..... sigh.

Very pretty!

sp8ced22 · Post by **sp8ced22** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:00 pm

Grue wrote:God damn it! Just when i think I'm getting close to 'finishing' my baby, you go and show me something like that..... sigh.

Very pretty!

did you not know your never finished modding your fto theres always somthing to play with

Grue · Post by **Grue** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:40 pm

sp8ced22 wrote: did you not know your never finished modding your fto theres always somthing to play with

Starting to see that...

Interesting - never realised there was a firm 3 doors down from where i live that specialise in Polishing and Electro-Plating.

Might have to go have a wee chat methinks.

FUS30N · Post by **FUS30N** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:51 pm

sp8ced22 wrote:im from the UK ftooc, and have polished my own manifold see pic below, before you start be prepared for a lot of hard work as it can be a pig of a job made easier if you buy this

EBAY LINKY which is what i used.

start with 800grit wet and dry and work your way throug to 1200grit (remember the more effort you put in at this stage the better the results will be. i used grinding stone to remove cast marks on edges and stuff. once your happy that the surface is nice and smooth its now time to use above kit from ebay either with drill of better with bench grinder as it makes it a lot easier i would suggest splitting your manifold into its 3 parts to make things easier and allows you the opportunity to give it a good cleaning and remove all the oil and gunk inside the kit above comes with full instructions start with coarse polishing soap and wheel and work through them till you use the final polishing soap and soft wheel liberally polish with belgom ally (polish) or similar and i got the below results i replaced all the OE bolts with Purple Alu ones as it looks loads better

this was just after finishing sanding process

You did a Very good job!, although you did it harder way, I polish car parts for a living,

if you have a decent sized bench grinder you will be able to pull 240grit sand marks and cast marks from the manifold, I normally sand the whole manifold down with Velcro Disk (Approx 120grit) , sand it back with a 240grit orbital sanding pad, horse hair mop with Grey Rouge, Light hand sand with 400grit, Semi Finish Mop with Orange rouge and final Finishing mop with Green Rouge(Chrome Gold)

This is the end result

if anyone wants to know some tips, PM me and ill answer them,

maggsy · Post by **maggsy** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:18 pm

is it possible to get good results just by working your way through sandpapers and then giving it a polish?

coz i was planning on doing it by hand but need my car every day so it can't be one of those 3 week type of jobs?

What can everyone recommend

FUS30N · Post by **FUS30N** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:26 pm

If your going to do it by hand prepare to be working on it for a couple of days, you can just go thorugh the sand paper, easier using power tools on it