Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
10-26-2006, 05:18 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
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you mean polish like making it shiny right? If you find a tech article, let me know because I am doing it to my stock intake too... just for experience and if it comes out decent I will sell it for a few bones.
you mean polish like making it shiny right? If you find a tech article, let me know because I am doing it to my stock intake too... just for experience and if it comes out decent I will sell it for a few bones.
ive taken intakes and made them look like chrome before first i start with 200 grit sand paper and work my way to 1600 grit in increments of 200 then when i get to 600 i start wetsanding. then when done with 1600 grit i get out the buffing compounds and buff the crap out of it then go to polishing compound. follow those steps(be ready takes a long time and patience) and you will have a chrome like finish. people that have seen the intake me and my friend did wonder if we had it chrome plated. looks great.
10-26-2006, 05:21 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
ok, lets rethink this over, why would you waste hours of time opening up the ports and polishing it for no benifit except the loss of your time, you said it is not going back on the car, do you really think someone will pay more than 20-30 dollars for a stock intake? not likely, so the time you would invest in this would be for no gain.
10-26-2006, 05:29 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
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ok, lets rethink this over, why would you waste hours of time opening up the ports and polishing it for no benifit except the loss of your time, you said it is not going back on the car, do you really think someone will pay more than 20-30 dollars for a stock intake? not likely, so the time you would invest in this would be for no gain.
ok, lets rethink this over, why would you waste hours of time opening up the ports and polishing it for no benifit except the loss of your time, you said it is not going back on the car, do you really think someone will pay more than 20-30 dollars for a stock intake? not likely, so the time you would invest in this would be for no gain.
10-26-2006, 05:36 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
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Mustangfxbdy do you have any pics. I have a stock intake sitting around I might try it out.
Mustangfxbdy do you have any pics. I have a stock intake sitting around I might try it out.
ill have to get to my friends supra its the one that i have access to that i have done it on and get a pic ill try to get one sometimes this weekend and email it to ya.
but if you want to see what it looks like in the mean time take your intake and pick a small section and do what i posted if you just do a small test area it wont take that long. sometimes i start out on 80(makes is easier to get alot of the roughness out if there is any)
but make sure you stay on 80-200 until alot of the real roughness is gone then go from there as described before. YOU will be amazed first time i did it I couldnt believe it.
10-26-2006, 05:49 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
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ok, lets rethink this over, why would you waste hours of time opening up the ports and polishing it for no benifit except the loss of your time, you said it is not going back on the car, do you really think someone will pay more than 20-30 dollars for a stock intake? not likely, so the time you would invest in this would be for no gain.
ok, lets rethink this over, why would you waste hours of time opening up the ports and polishing it for no benifit except the loss of your time, you said it is not going back on the car, do you really think someone will pay more than 20-30 dollars for a stock intake? not likely, so the time you would invest in this would be for no gain.
10-26-2006, 05:52 PM
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RE: Polish and port stock intake and selling??? Worth it
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ill have to get to my friends supra its the one that i have access to that i have done it on and get a pic ill try to get one sometimes this weekend and email it to ya.
but if you want to see what it looks like in the mean time take your intake and pick a small section and do what i posted if you just do a small test area it wont take that long. sometimes i start out on 80(makes is easier to get alot of the roughness out if there is any)
but make sure you stay on 80-200 until alot of the real roughness is gone then go from there as described before. YOU will be amazed first time i did it I couldnt believe it.
ORIGINAL: Champ561
Mustangfxbdy do you have any pics. I have a stock intake sitting around I might try it out.
Mustangfxbdy do you have any pics. I have a stock intake sitting around I might try it out.
ill have to get to my friends supra its the one that i have access to that i have done it on and get a pic ill try to get one sometimes this weekend and email it to ya.
but if you want to see what it looks like in the mean time take your intake and pick a small section and do what i posted if you just do a small test area it wont take that long. sometimes i start out on 80(makes is easier to get alot of the roughness out if there is any)
but make sure you stay on 80-200 until alot of the real roughness is gone then go from there as described before. YOU will be amazed first time i did it I couldnt believe it.