93LSivic

I got the turbo last week or 2 ago. I decided that it needed a facelift. Looked like this before..........


And then after about 6-7 hours of mostly hand sanding and some polishing tonight, it now looks like this......




What do you think? Not bad for my first time. As you can see the cast on the housing was really rough. I couldnt really sand inbetween the lettering and there was some deep pits I couldnt get into either. I think I did a good job though!
Gonna do my manifold and downpipe too. They /hopefully/ should be here tomorrow.

VaporTrail

looks good. Now get the thing running

Adi Radoncic

That really looks good!!

Can you share with us what grit sandpaper you used to do this?? Please!

Thanks,

Adi

immortal

Dremel with 3/4in sanding drums to remove pits/scratches
40 grit sand paper
200 grit sand paper
320 grit sand paper, wet
400 grit sand paper, wet
600 grit sand paper, wet
buffing wheel w/ emory rouge compound
buffing wheel w/ white rouge compound.

93LSivic

Well, actually not all hand sanding. I cheated a bit with an air die grinder and some a white roloc disc. But hand sanded after that (5+ hours worth) with 260, 540, 1000, 1500 wet sand paper. Then good ol Home Depot polishing kit ($12) on my cordless drill--using the white stick.

I hope to have on soon as soon as I buy my hondata 3B, which im buying this week, and some RC 550s.
You know I will post pics and let everyone know when its on!

MugenSi00

wanna polish mine?

rjardy

that looks really really good mang!! NICE

BoostedED9

i did my friends and just used a wire wheel and then a polishing wheel..... came out pretty damn good too...

it was alot nicer looking before touching it with dirty oily hands... we were puttin ghte car back together so nothing was really clean...hehe...

dbman96

yeah I'm amazed what you can do with a wire wheel - I polished my max rev manifold real quick (5 min) with a wire wheel on the Makita and it looks pretty decent... when I "de-turbo" for smog I'm going to polish everything up.

Xerxes

Looks great! Nice polishing job. I need to learn how to do that

when you "wet sand" do you just add water, or soak the paper in water, or what?

-Xerxes

BoostedED9

whenever i "wet sand" anything i just dip the paper in water.. im pretty sure other people do it other ways.... wire wheel ownz

93LSivic

I just did the sanding in my laundry rooms plastic sink. The wetsand keeps the fine paper from loading up with whatever it is your sanding.
Like I said this was my first time polishing. Just take your time. Its not hard at all, just time consuming--and it also helps to have some of the right tools.

lswithvtec

what type of wire wheel do you use?

BoostedED9

i used one similar to this one and this one they work well.... and these things to polish



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tararan

i wonder if that would work with my valve cover?? hhhhm.......... that looks real good....

BoostedED9

a friend used a wire wheel on his valve cover but didnt use the polishing wheel so it stayed scractched and didnt look so good....

dangerzone

look nice.

I cheated, I had ploish shop did it for me. $30 save me from buying tools and times.

chri5

Its easy. I'm doing my TMIC this week.