Home polishing valve covers/air intake?

[a-master]

can i just use a dremmel tool w/ a wire brush to polish that thing up to get some of its original shine back or will that be too much work?

[vr4gasm]

Re: Home polishing valve covers/air intake?

a wire brush will help it look new again yes but you can't polish with a wire brush i would use a bench mounted wire brush over a dremel though

i am polishing my powerdyne right now i started with a wire brush

then 220 grit
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i polished an old intake manifold doing the same thing looked amazing

[ssms5411]

Re: Home polishing valve covers/air intake?

a wire brush will help it look new again yes but you can't polish with a wire brush i would use a bench mounted wire brush over a dremel though

i am polishing my powerdyne right now i started with a wire brush

then 220 grit
320 grit
400 grit
600 grit
800 grit
1000 grit
1500 grit
and 2000 grit

i polished an old intake manifold doing the same thing looked amazing

You know you saw my polished turbo and want to be like Steve.LOL

[a-master]

Re: Home polishing valve covers/air intake?

You know you saw my polished turbo and want to be like Steve.LOL

i have plenty of time, but what would be an eta on a valve cover?

[Loochy88]

Re: Home polishing valve covers/air intake?

its definitely time consuming, and its hard to say how long you want to spend on it. it really depends how nice you want it to look in the end. hours at least... dont forget to finish it off with some mothers aluminum polish (or a similar product)