at home polishing?

DirtyDee916 · 04-12-2003, 12:35 AM

just curious on how companies polish components such as intakes and heads. is there a possible way to do this at home?

Jameasun · 05-07-2003, 01:42 AM

Yea it is possible!

Check out: http://www.sa-motorsports.com/diyport.htm

You can get the supplies from Summit for around $60

302forever · 05-07-2003, 02:16 AM

I've had excellent results from sandblasting with one of those cheap little backpack style blasters. If there's a problem associated with that, I haven't run into it yet. You just have to be sure and clean things good afterwards.

Jameasun · 05-07-2003, 02:38 AM

Yea thats one way to get rid of carbon!<img border="0" src= smileys/smiley3.gif> If you go that way, protect your mounting surfaces and valve gudies if they are still in. But the whole idea kind of sacres me.<img border="0" src= smileys/smiley11.gif>

302forever · 05-07-2003, 11:14 AM

I was really just refering to outside, nonfunctional areas. The outer walls of intakes, the sides of the head, stuff like that. It works real good on aluminum.