anyone have a satin-intake?

[ttocs]

I did some more work on the 94 cobra intake I bought to polish last night since I could not sleep. I have 6 of the 8 runners smoothed out now and the more I look at them in the satin-look they have now the more I like it. So far I have them sanded down with a med-grit sanding sponge so they are not brushed but just a satin/flat look to them. I have chrome valve covers I could do the same finish to by simply sanding them down as well as a couple other pieces on the motor. I would like to get the engine bay painted a satin black as well as everything else that isn't polished/raw satin finish and think it would look great. Anyone done anything similar and have pics?

This pic is a little old as I have smoothed it out even more then this but the lower area gives you an idea of what it would look like.

 

[Venom351R]

Dooooo itttt

 

[ttocs]

the fact that after a day no one on here can post pics has me curious as hell. Something original maybe?

 

[OnyxCobra]

It kinda has a scratched up look to me...

 

[ttocs]

its a little more then half way there right now and this was prior to a few more hours of work on it. The top portion there I took the scale off from the casting with a sanding drum and now I am just sanding those tool-marks out. I want to spend some more time on it tonight I will post more pics then. The bottom half is smoothed out and I will go to a little higher grit no matter if I polish it or not.

 

[JoshHooten]

Mine is not satin but an off gold color and kind of a satin ,I guess its the factory color, Anybody know?

 

[1997gtRioRed]

i always thought it would be cool if someone rhino lined/line-x'd the intake. i like the whole rough/shiny look. pic related

 

[JoshHooten]

Haha thats the rhino linings in my town ,I passed it today.

 

[1997gtRioRed]

haha very nice. i just googled rhino liner. on that note, theres some jackass driving a cummins around by me that had his entire truck done. i have actually seen him hosing it down in armorall, and it is damn shiny

 

[ttocs]

a krinkled-powder would be better for that application I would think.

 

[mygreengt]

haha very nice. i just googled rhino liner. on that note, theres some jackass driving a cummins around by me that had his entire truck done. i have actually seen him hosing it down in armorall, and it is damn shiny

lmao, you have to get a picture.

 

[ttocs]

Mine is not satin but an off gold color and kind of a satin ,I guess its the factory color, Anybody know?

Yea that is just about as stock as it can come with a 93 cobra intake on a sn95. That was sarcasm if you didn't catch it. No its not the factory color.

Spent some more time with it tonight and got all the runners smoothed out. There are still some small areas and corners that need to be done as well as the throat, but its mainly flat so it will not be too bad.

I still can't help but admire the dull finish and wonder if it would be a good look although if thorco3 posts a pic of his back up I am sure I will be polishing it.

 

[Venom351R]

the fact that after a day no one on here can post pics has me curious as hell. Something original maybe?

Its been done a lot before. Just time consuming and labor intensive. Its more commonly referred to as polishing the intake b/c your taking it down to the bare metal and then polishing it so its nice and shiny. I had mine down to this point, but I had the intention of black wrinkle powder coat and to not continue to polish it.

 

[AnthonyF]

Mine is not satin but an off gold color and kind of a satin ,I guess its the factory color, Anybody know?

It's called rust.

 

[ttocs]

Its been done a lot before. Just time consuming and labor intensive. Its more commonly referred to as polishing the intake b/c your taking it down to the bare metal and then polishing it so its nice and shiny. I had mine down to this point, but I had the intention of black wrinkle powder coat and to not continue to polish it.

I can still see the scale from the casting on that one, not really the same thing unless this one is just starting to be polished. The one I have now is much smoother then that and almost ready to be polished to finish it on the bottom section.

For some reason I can't upload pics to cardomain this mornin to show where I am at. I will get pics up as soon as I can.

 

[Venom351R]

I had no intention of poishing it, thats why it was not sanded down more. Still needs to be stripped down to the metal either way. Takes a lot of grits of sand paper and a lot of work. Looks great when its all done but like I said its been done quite a bit before

 

[ReplicaR]

You wanna do something cool? Try to get a wrinkle finish like on Ferrari intake manifolds.

 

[ttocs]

not after sanding all the scale off yer nuts..

 

[OnyxCobra]

If you like it then leave it...

 

[thorco3]

hey scott, I've probably got a pic somewhere of mine while it was pretty well completely satin.... like yourself I was tempted to leave it, but then I realized I was crazy... I had already done the hard part. haha