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Ian 09-15-2007 08:35 PM

polishing fuel rails/intake
 
what do you guys use for polishing fuel rails? mine are pretty dirty and I'd like to clean them up. also, what do you use to polish the top lines of an LT1 intake?

ar0ck 09-15-2007 08:49 PM

When I did mine I used a dremel with a sanding wheel to polish the raised runners on my intake after I painted it. And for the fuel rail lines I used Mother billet aluminum wax and just put a few coats on with some elbow grease. They were still a little spotted but looked a lot better then before.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3..._17251copy.jpg

Ian 09-15-2007 11:15 PM

good deal. I still have to get the intake glass beaded as its quite oxidized. after that I'll have to bust out the old dremel. thanks alex.

HardcoreZ28 09-18-2007 12:26 PM

If you're going to have the parts off the car just clean them up on a buffing wheel. Maybe wire wheel them first with a fine wheel then use some blue or white rougue to buff them out after.
And if you need the intake blasted let me know.....I'll hook you up.

Pampered-Z 09-24-2007 03:35 PM

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I use 1000, 1500 then 2000 grit then a polishing wheel with white rougue. You can then tape off the polished areas and paint or powder coat the rest. or go nuts and just polish everything!

Ian 09-30-2007 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HardcoreZ28 (Post 380011)
If you're going to have the parts off the car just clean them up on a buffing wheel. Maybe wire wheel them first with a fine wheel then use some blue or white rougue to buff them out after.
And if you need the intake blasted let me know.....I'll hook you up.

sent you an email about the intake.

thanks paul and john for the polishing suggestions :)

Injuneer 10-05-2007 03:16 PM

I started polishing my fuel rails with plain ol' aluminum polish when the car was new. They still have a mirror finish, with nothing more that a quick application of Mothers Billet Polish:

http://www.injuneer.com/images/photo.../DCP04252a.jpg

GREZ28 10-06-2007 01:58 PM

Blue Magic cream.. I have also used the dremel with the long flexible extension.. Does a great job to hard bufing spots that never been done..


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