Painted / Polished Inlet Manifolds
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Painted / Polished Inlet Manifolds
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:
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Very challenging you realise just how bad quality the finish is, the trouble is after you grind the krud off you then need to smooth in order to polish. I need to take it to work on a friday and after I finish and make a start on it, we have a polishing machine there and the mops as well.
TBH even though it's nice to do this yourself if you don't have the kit I think it's worth paying for this to be done, send it to a proper polishing company. The mops make the job easy and they can be expensive to buy along with the correct compounds, it's a 2 stage polishing job at the least with different grades of mops/compounds needed.
TBH even though it's nice to do this yourself if you don't have the kit I think it's worth paying for this to be done, send it to a proper polishing company. The mops make the job easy and they can be expensive to buy along with the correct compounds, it's a 2 stage polishing job at the least with different grades of mops/compounds needed.
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quite like the black crinkle. I'm going for a black / red combo on my sti so that could work quite nicely. The crinkle and gloss reds have been done nicely as well
Cheers Wrighty, I'll look that guy up.
Surprised nobody has commented on the mental setup in the pic in my first post. Yup that's an Impreza engine bay!
Cheers Wrighty, I'll look that guy up.
Surprised nobody has commented on the mental setup in the pic in my first post. Yup that's an Impreza engine bay!
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You've got futher than me, i'm still on the smoothing stage, must of spent 10+ hours so far on it, lost interest at the moment though
If the car don't sell will have to get round to finishing it and get it on.
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nice, did you do this with a portable polisher (elec plug in type) or one of those bigger ones which are normally bolted to the floor?
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I really wanted something different too...
Looked much better in the flesh, the photo doesn't capture it very well. To be fair though, wish I'd picked something else as it's not exactly the easiest of things to keep clean...nicotene yellow appears the be the colour it's resolving to now!
Looked much better in the flesh, the photo doesn't capture it very well. To be fair though, wish I'd picked something else as it's not exactly the easiest of things to keep clean...nicotene yellow appears the be the colour it's resolving to now!
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First off I used grinder for the really bad areas where the joints were then I used a flapped sanding wheel in the drill to try and smooth that over more, Ideally I could do with a phosphor bronze wire brush which will smooth the ally out nicely next. Don't worry I'm not an anorak I work for a brush manufacturer Then after all that's done you need to work with the graded cloth polishing mops and compounds the get the shine.... but yes your right the small areas that have been polished were on a floor mounted machine, it was just a couple of trial areas to see what work was involved. It has shown me that I still need to do a lot more prep work still before the final polish.
To polish one of these it is a serious amount of work trust me... like Dean I've lost some interest but during the winter when the car shows finish I need to get back on it for next year.
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First off I used grinder for the really bad areas where the joints were then I used a flapped sanding wheel in the drill to try and smooth that over more, Ideally I could do with a phosphor bronze wire brush which will smooth the ally out nicely next. Don't worry I'm not an anorak I work for a brush manufacturer Then after all that's done you need to work with the graded cloth polishing mops and compounds the get the shine.... but yes your right the small areas that have been polished were on a floor mounted machine, it was just a couple of trial areas to see what work was involved. It has shown me that I still need to do a lot more prep work still before the final polish.
To polish one of these it is a serious amount of work trust me... like Dean I've lost some interest but during the winter when the car shows finish I need to get back on it for next year.
To polish one of these it is a serious amount of work trust me... like Dean I've lost some interest but during the winter when the car shows finish I need to get back on it for next year.