Im doing it. Polishing the intake

95 svt cobra · Jul 7, 2008

Allright so i went out to start the car today and all i got was click click click. shit. battery was dead. so i was like f it ill polish my intake.

I started out with 180 grit sand paper and a block to kinda knock some of the coating off, that didnt work as good so i went to my dremel. I used their 120 grit sanding attachment and that took it to bare metal pretty good. I only got some of the top side done and it took me a good 2 hours to get as far as i did. i called it a day and went to famous daves. ill post some pics in a minute..

Paul · Jul 7, 2008

Start out with 60 grit and a vibrating sander. Get the surfaces even and remove all the pitting and casting flash. Then 100. Then 150. Then 220. Then start polishing. Expect it to take a LONG time.

Paul.

OnyxCobra · Jul 8, 2008

looking good so far, polished intakes look :thumb:

Venom351R · Jul 8, 2008

Got a lot of work ahead of you, get on it!! :hammer:

5.Woahhh · Jul 8, 2008

It's taken me almost a month to get mine perfect. I'm still stripping off paint. (The previous owner painted it white) However lucky for me I think it was polished before it was painted. Good luck.

What are you doing with the lettering?

95 svt cobra · Jul 8, 2008

eh idk yet, i was thinking of black lettering or just keeping the background black and polished letters

Peter · Jul 8, 2008

I wouldnt start using any polishing type things until you have stepped up to 4-600 grit sand paper.

I have had to do quite a few things at school and they always came out looking like a mirror. Started at 120 grit and worked my way up from there.

McGarrh · Jul 8, 2008

Keep us posted!

95-stang · Jul 9, 2008

Your a brave man, thats not a job to take on lightly, good luck.

Goindeafonmtx · Jul 9, 2008

lol. You need to have the coating stripped. Take my advice and take it to someone to have it removed. It will save you time and probably won't cost you much more if you stripped it yourself using sand paper. If there is no one in your area that does any type of chemical stripping, go get some aircraft paint stripper. It will take it off no problem. Just have some patience.

95 svt cobra · Jul 9, 2008

yeh i took a good portion of the casting off, now all i have to do is little touch ups, in the areas i couldnt get sanded well, i got a ton of A. stripper so i should be good. i went a little deep in some areas with the dremel, but not to bad, im just going to have to spend extra time on it smoothing it out. ill post pics later tonight probably haha later :happydrunks:

ju015dd · Jul 9, 2008

have fun..

95 svt cobra · Jul 13, 2008

Re: Im doing it. Polishing the intake * UPDATE*

i got alot further now that ive had a few days off from work, but the weekend = BS. Stinkin R.O.T.C. cadets lol anyways heres a couple more pics of what i have done, i sanded the shit outta it and i need to work on the runners a bit more then i will really start with the polishing.

Jrgunn5150 · Jul 13, 2008

I'll tell you how I would do it, rough sand it, then use a felt wheel on the grinder, that'll make it nearly polished, the just buff it.

95 svt cobra · Jul 13, 2008

yeah i need to get a nice polisher/buffer sears is having a sale so i might run down there tomorrow and pick one up. I used some trippolli compound on my TB and it looks nice, just real quick polish thats all im getting a larger one anyways i just wanted to see how it would look after using the dremel polishing shite.