Painted / Polished Inlet Manifolds
heres a picture of his inlet manifold ,i think the yellow looks class with the blue .
04 February 2010, 08:48 PM
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I'm not sure what pink bar you have there but if I run through the stuff I know about you may be able to make some headway, it's possible that the pink may well be a very fine compound it may not quite be up to the job to cut enough shine into the ally.
I'll use this link for reference........ Polishing Compounds
When you see "cut and colour" it means you cut into the metal plus it will shine it, colour is shine.
Aluminium is a non ferrous metal
Non-ferrous metals one of our reps that retired advised me that simply using Carbrax MG to start with which gives a good cut and also colours well plus a bar of Blue is all you ever need to polish non ferrous with.... get the blue out and give it a go there 
Where about's in the country are you Dunk ?
I'll use this link for reference........ Polishing Compounds
When you see "cut and colour" it means you cut into the metal plus it will shine it, colour is shine.
Aluminium is a non ferrous metal
Non-ferrous metals one of our reps that retired advised me that simply using Carbrax MG to start with which gives a good cut and also colours well plus a bar of Blue is all you ever need to polish non ferrous with.... get the blue out and give it a go there Where about's in the country are you Dunk ?
Looks like I have been using the wrong polishes then, I didnt know Aluminium was non ferrous, I thought it was only the likes of copper, brass, zinc etc etc
Anyhoo this is the polishing kit i bought (well a small part of it TBH not including the other dremel stuff ) Metal Polishing Kit General Purpose 6" x 1" GPK0-6002 on eBay (end time 06-Feb-10 20:50:59 GMT)
Will give it a go with the blue polish tomorrow then and see if I can get a shinier end finish, was going to call it a day with it as it is but now you have planted a seed in my head lol
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04 February 2010, 09:17 PM
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You should be able to get that up like a mirror..... your just about there it just needs finishing by the look of it to me.
Ferrious and non ferrious can be confusing even I googled it to confirm
That is not a bad kit to get the job done, if you check my link out you will see the prices are not to bad buying seperates and those bars in my link are nearly a kilo each, they look as if they originated with us, it looks exhactly like the stuff we have on the shelf.
Chuffing mops drive me mad or is it the cutomers 
Simon
Ferrious and non ferrious can be confusing even I googled it to confirm
That is not a bad kit to get the job done, if you check my link out you will see the prices are not to bad buying seperates and those bars in my link are nearly a kilo each, they look as if they originated with us, it looks exhactly like the stuff we have on the shelf.
Chuffing mops drive me mad
or is it the cutomers Simon
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27 February 2010, 06:44 PM
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Come on then, lets see them painted or polished. The crinkle finish is flaking off on my sti and i want some ideas of what to do. Re-paint in crinkle red or do i go for something different? Lets see what you've done / found out there on 'tinterweb
I know this is a non standard manifold but quick like the finish:
I know this is a non standard manifold but quick like the finish:
Has the turbo melted the paint yet ? pmsl
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