Logic

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I was bored today so I took off my throttle body & the 2 aluminum bevels that surround the MAF sensor & polished them. I used 180 then 220 then 320 then 600 then 1000 grit sand paper to smooth them out. Then polished them with rubbing compound & cleaner. The picture doesn’t show much but when it was done it looked like chrome.

Turo

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that looks good! id love to try and learn to polish a few things, got any tips?

Logic

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^ Nice car. Can I get a closer pic of what all you have going on under that hood? Looks interesting.


It was all done by hand here. If your going to try it start off using the rougher sand paper first like 180 grit. This will cut the roughness & imperfections out of the aluminum. Then I used the 220 to smooth it down then used the 320,600 & 1000 (in that order) to finish the sanding till it was slick. Once it was nice and slick I used rubbing compound & cleaner like the type you buy for paint to finish & make it like chrome.

When sanding just try to keep it continuous all over the area don’t sand in one spot for a long period. I wet sanded it seemed to work the best.

jaberwaki

that looks like a bang up job ya did there...

rookie501

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looks like a great job!! Have you done this sort of thing before?

cyphur

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damn that looks nice. now you just have to port the tb i did that over the week, but i have a slight whistle at start up, i think i pushed too much epoxy back near the sensor, i just have to pull it out and drill it out and make sure there are no sharp edges. mine doesn't bling even close to yours tho. gonna have to work on that too lol.

Logic

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No it was my first attempt at it. But when I was younger I worked in a body shop wet sanding cars paint & primer so I was familiar with that type thing.

Turo

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not a whole lot going on, just s few go-fast goodies. its an "all go, no show" engine compartment . thanks for the tips, as soon as i get some free time im going to try polishing a few spare parts i have around here . hopefully i wont mess up anything too bad.

ps. i attached a closer pic of the engine for ya

Logic

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Thanks for the pic. Looks good

BTW how do you like that MAF translator? Thats the first I have seen of one & I am looking it up now.

Turo

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i dont have it anymore. it was good while i had it, it served its purpose, but now i just got a copy of hptuners and do all my air/fuel tuning with that

Hayze

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Both of you nice looking engine bays

Logic~ Great job on the polishing, kinda makes me want to.