My first attempt at polishing

I didnt have any clearance problems on my stock heads, but with the Twisted Wedges I had to grind down part of the EGR place and Get a shorter vac fitting for my brake booster. It does touch the altinator but you can just tighten up the top bolt on the alt. and its perfectly fine.
 
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94GTLaserRC said:
First: Are those the stock covers???? If so, you are wasting your time polishing them. You cannot polish steel, only Aluminum. The stock covers are stamped steel.

Second. In that second pic of yours: You should NEVER have that intake off without some kind of cover over the ports. (Remember "my cousin vinnie", Joe Does :lol: )

Third: :lol: :rlaugh: ...Not at your work but the fact that EVERYONE :lol: at me for polishing, then they go and do it :lol: ASK JOE, Javi, and Jose!

Good luck!
RC

From the movie-My Cousin Vinny
"What's the first thing when rebuilding a carb? Taking it off the manifold. "If you don't you may drop something into the motor. "Then your ****ed!" "You just learned the hard way what not do."
 
to get them looking like chrome you just need to spend LOTS of time on the piece. Take your time sanding, making sure that when your done witheach grit that its perfect before you move on to the next grit. It just takes lots of time and practice. RC, its the stock covers that dont clear and its usually with RR. The only thing that I have ever heard of fox covers not clearing is upper intakes when you have a non-stock set of heads, then you need to space the intake up.
 
I am in the process of polishing and buffing my upper Cobra intake. I am now finishing up with the 240 grit paper and then will move on to 320 and finally 400. I have spent countless hours on this thing and am still not done. Thankfully, I don't need the intake until my new motor goes in this summer. From my experience it is best to use aircraft paint remover instead of trying to sand all of the powdercoat or paint off of the piece. Also, a high-speed electric drill (at least 2,500 rpms) can do wonders and save time. I started with a cordless drill which made things take alot longer. You can check out Eastwood's website to find some tapered sanding rolls which work good for the tight spaces. I'll post some pics sometime soon.
 
HoofnIt, are you sanding it all by hand? If so I'd look into getting a power sander with some sort of foam/rubber pad on the bottom of it. I started sanding my valve covers by hand for awhile and hardly anything was happening, then I got my dads sander and made short work of everything :nice:

I'm going to be looking into a cheap DA sander here soon before I do my intake. But for now... I'm going to go back outside and finish up my valve covers today/tomorrow. Once you start you cant stop :D
 
1105 said:
HoofnIt, are you sanding it all by hand? If so I'd look into getting a power sander with some sort of foam/rubber pad on the bottom of it. I started sanding my valve covers by hand for awhile and hardly anything was happening, then I got my dads sander and made short work of everything :nice:

I'm going to be looking into a cheap DA sander here soon before I do my intake. But for now... I'm going to go back outside and finish up my valve covers today/tomorrow. Once you start you cant stop :D

No Way! I am using an electric drill w/sanding rolls and also a Black & Decker Mouse sander w/extension. I will have to sand the 320 and 400 grit by hand though.