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Is there a how to to Polish you Plenum on here anywhere?

Requirements?

LOTS of elbow grease. Lots of sandpaper. Start with course paper and work your way to fine grit paper. Some have started with 80 grit. You will want to end up at like 1000 or 1500 grit for the final sanding, but you are best to use at least 4 sizes, working each round thorougly.

It takes serious time and effort. Most of the people that have done theirs have taken literally days worth of work.

Once you got the sanding out of the way, you can finally polish it. If you have access to a DA, that will help some of the sanding and the polish work as you can buy polish wheels for them.

As for write ups, I don't know of any.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp-aL7ega5o
With tools. You can do the same by hand but it takes much longer

and it is soooo worth it. i did all mine by hand and if i ever do it again, i will definatly be using tools.

If you don't keep up with it, it will look like crap over time. It's a lot of upkeep.

I'm not going to be doing it again, that's for sure.

Polished aluminum is the bane of my existence. I prefer aluminium paint.

I mainly want a smooth surface to paint.

Sandpaper.

Also you could get it powder coated, that fills lots of small voids. You still need to get it pretty smooth before powder tho

Kris GTwhat? wrote:and it is soooo worth it. i did all mine by hand and if i ever do it again, i will definatly be using tools.

Why didn't you grind those stupid mounting ears off first??

Shanez26 wrote:I mainly want a smooth surface to paint.

You can't paint a polished surface...

No I wasn't gonna do the final step. Just get it nice and smooth.

You want it a bit rough so paint can stick; otherwise it will peel up.

lol i havent had one person NOT point out that i left the tabs. i wanted to save them untill i get the motor in just incase i want to use them. wouldnt take much to remove and re-polish.