looks great but if you havent already to really should hit it with a polishing buffer. it makes a WORLD of difference.
i picked up a 'barrel' (round polishing tool) at my local harbor freight for like $2. it works amazingly well and after having polished multiple things over the years by hand i will NEVER go back to it. i will always use a buffer of some kind. the shine is just well... 10X better and it seems to stay that way longer.
I'm tired of wasting my time... now I'm breakin' free.
I do have my eye on polishing others things in the bay and I have to admit, polishing by hand is VERY tedious. I'll look into your tool at harbor freight and see whats up cuz damn... I think I have carpel tunnel
that will look great in there
I'm doing my valve cover soon as well. I wasn't sure if i wanted to paint it or polish it, but this made up my mind... i'm polishing
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put a high temp clear on it if u wanta clean it easier!
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Looks awesome man, nice job. I need to do this at some point.
z yaaaa wrote:looks great but if you havent already to really should hit it with a polishing buffer. it makes a WORLD of difference.
i picked up a 'barrel' (round polishing tool) at my local harbor freight for like $2. it works amazingly well and after having polished multiple things over the years by hand i will NEVER go back to it. i will always use a buffer of some kind. the shine is just well... 10X better and it seems to stay that way longer.
Are you implying you don't nee to sand by hand when you're polishing? That would be very nice. I do have an orbital buffer but I can't imagine it would be great for polishing the valve cover. I've just never used it for anything but waxing, I'm not sure if it's the same thing as what you're talking about. Can you fill me in?
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you cooked up something nice
any pics of it on the car yet? i really wanna see how this turned out
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Nah not yet. My current plan is to install it this weekend along with my motor mounts. Ill make sure to post pics when done
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got my motor mounts done last week. post pics here am curious to see how good it looks in there..
Done...
Uninstalling the old cover and installing the new one WHOOPED my ass
Looks a ton better though. I'm happy
Now I can scratch this off my list and on to other things...... *ECU cough*
I also would like to polish the AC system and stuff but that will be tricky since it's pretty much non removable
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Thanks man.
Oh and this morning I also re-polished my intake. It had some deep scratches from times I worked on the car.... You can see my reflection in the elbow LOL
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looks awesome!!!
definitely need to get around to doing mine... i think i want the fuel rail done too!!!
congrats on getting it all back together!
Smoosh wrote:looks awesome!!!
definitely need to get around to doing mine... i think i want the fuel rail done too!!!
congrats on getting it all back together!
Thanks. I want my fuel rail done too, but your gonna need a high powered dremel or something similar to knock down the roughness in order to get it the way you want.
much better i love it
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Eternal wrote:Smoosh wrote:looks awesome!!!
definitely need to get around to doing mine... i think i want the fuel rail done too!!!
congrats on getting it all back together!
Thanks. I want my fuel rail done too, but your gonna need a high powered dremel or something similar to knock down the roughness in order to get it the way you want.
yet another thing to add to my endless list of parts needed