Polishing

[Adz2332]

I have a twin turbo pipe and also trying to get a Plenium from a 33 gtr, and i want to polish them up.

I want to polish out the ummm grain i guess you can call it to make it smooth and not bumpy and lumpy.

What would i need to use to sand that out of it?

Im not even thinking about getting it shinny till i have it smooth as smooth.

How?

thanks

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

That pipe still looks like its gota light glaze / polish from factory.

I guess if you sand it back to the bare metal you can use Metal Polish and just polish it like the same way you polish your car body paint.

Or ask Craved (Chris), he's usually got some good tips.

Last time he suggested to me some sorta silicon spray polish.

[Craved]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Al...mp;hl=polishing

^^ read

alot of work, i have since found that a scotch brite pad on a grinder will help start off the sanding/grinding process without digging into the surface or putting many deep scratches in the metal.

you are looking at alot of work though

[Adz2332]

Lol started this over the holiday weekend.. HOLLY HELL will it take awhile haha

[Craved]

hot it with heavy sand paper to smooth it out, then hit it with something like this

http://www.australianabrasives.com/flapwheels.htm

to clear out the sanding marks in from the last step

then back to 400 grit

you can tell now why its not cheap to polish stuff haahaha

[GTRsean]

Lots of work!!!

This is mine, polished not chromed!

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[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

^^Nice!

Looks great.

[cobrAA]

I much time does it took you to do the TWIN TURBO PIPE ? with a machine or elbow grease?

I don't even want to take out the pipe, I will do it in the engine.

[babyskyline]

doubt you will be able to do a very good job with it still in the engine bay.

[Craved]

easy to remove too, 2 bolts and 2 hose clamps

wouldnt want sanding dust through the engine bay myself.

[cobrAA]

easy to remove too, 2 bolts and 2 hose clamps

wouldnt want sanding dust through the engine bay myself.

Oh okay I didn't know that. ANyways. How much time did it took to get it chromed? Is it like 40 hrs?

[Tayno]

I did the plenum on my 1j (was pretty coarse to start with) and it took for f***ing ever!

Did a few hours each night in front on the TV. Dont know if i'd do it again