Now speaking of bling........

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:04 am

The original offering.....

From this:

to this:

Hmmmmm - blingy

And now:
polished turbo:

Pipe work and accessories:

and new vent rings

Sheck · Postby **Sheck** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 7:57 am

Heheh thats great!
Good to see it came up so nice

Dave

randymx5 · Postby **randymx5** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:11 pm

Nice work!!

how long did it take and what did you used to bet it soo shiny!!

Boags · Postby **Boags** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:17 pm

I can't believe i missed out by 6 minutes... :evil:

Boags - looks good though. :mrgreen:

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:39 pm

Boag's - don't worry too much - if it turns out I don't need I'll let you know........

As for how - it's easy, but I've still got the dirt under my fingernails to prove I did it.... you can do the same thing with your AFM and intake plenum - I sanded it first (by hand) starting with about a 150 grid emery paper - I also tried a similar grade glass paper but it wears out faster. The sanding is to remove the casting marks - there are still some pockmarks etc that I want to get out, so I'll give it a bit more of a go.

As the emery paper wore down, I put some polishing compound onto it, so it becomes a finer grain sanding surface, which takes out the sanding marks.

Finally, I hit it with straight cutting/polishing compound - basically any cheap cut/polish will do and polished it by hand until I got the result here.

It takes a while, so don't be disillusioned if it doesn't get shiny straight away - the casting marks and edges take a bit of effort, but when you start to polish at the end, it literally goes from yuk to bling in a second.

OMY005 · Postby **OMY005** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:01 pm

'Brasso' works great on aluminium. You can get it to go like chrome with a mirror finish. I'll bring some Saturday.

Andrew.

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:19 pm

OMY005 wrote:'Brasso' works great on aluminium. You can get it to go like chrome with a mirror finish. I'll bring some Saturday.

Andrew.

Cool - speaking of bling, my new purchases arrived on Sunday and I have some polishing to do

, and I thought we might do Jules' AFM..... as he also needs more bling to keep up with Wayne......

jules · Postby **jules** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:52 pm

Cool! Bring it on

Jules

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:31 pm

jules wrote:Cool! Bring it on

Jules

Haha Shouldnt that be "Bling it on?" :mrgreen:

fig · Postby **fig** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:40 pm

Auto-sol (repco / autobarn etc),

great for polishing!

May tarnish pretty quick though

sabretooth · Postby **sabretooth** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:41 pm

Autosol works really well, but as fig said, it tarnishes quickly. Ideally you'll want to coat with something after polishing.

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:59 pm

A tiny dab of scratchX works very well too

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:55 pm

check out the new stuff

jules · Postby **jules** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:48 am

Looking good, my fingers are twitching in anticipation of more future Dodgy!
BTW: I noticed that lovely steering wheel is starting to show signs

Jules

Uncle Arthur · Postby **Uncle Arthur** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:32 pm

jules wrote:Looking good, my fingers are twitching in anticipation of more future Dodgy!
BTW: I noticed that lovely steering wheel is starting to show signs

Jules

Nothing a bit of black dye won't fix where it is fading.