Mrbaldhead 10 Posted April 28, 2014 Hello, I have taken off the top plastic cover to polish the top of the engine to get it looking like the second picture. Mine is shown in the first picture, any tips on how to do this properly? Is it relatively easy? [ATTACH=CONFIG]78442[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]78443[/ATTACH] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray1965 10 Posted April 29, 2014 (edited) You can either do it with sol-vol auto-sol, and plenty of elbow grease or buy a polishing kit with different polish bars and mops which is done with a electric drill, google it. I polished a Full Honda CB900 engine casings with the mop and polish way. TBH this does the job a lot better but is a bit time consuming but the results are good. See pics below of some of the polishing i did. [ATTACH=CONFIG]78445[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]78446[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]78447[/ATTACH] Edited April 29, 2014 by Ray1965 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nrc 0 Posted April 29, 2014 Bring your polishing gear to the next show, Ray, and you can spend all day polishing manifolds! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mrbaldhead 10 Posted April 29, 2014 Thanks I will give that a go Ray. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bowen 1 Posted April 29, 2014 You need to sand all the texture off it, i know some people have used a belt sander, i did mine by hand, took ages. I started with 40grit You want to end up using 1200-2000wet n dry, then start polishing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mrbaldhead 10 Posted April 29, 2014 Thank you, going to be a long and boring task but worth it in the end! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Bowen 1 Posted April 29, 2014 Sometimes i think i would prefer it standard and just spray it silver Unless your cleaning it all the time it ends up like this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray1965 10 Posted April 29, 2014 Thank you, going to be a long and boring task but worth it in the end! I used one of these first to kick start the polishing but it was removing engine lacquer. http://www.axminster.co.uk/abrasive-lap-mops Then you need a kit like this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminium-Brass-Stainless-Steel-Copper-Steel-Alloy-Metal-Polishing-Kit-/271441671648 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ray1965 10 Posted April 29, 2014 Bring your polishing gear to the next show, Ray, and you can spend all day polishing manifolds! Hello Matey, Yes that would be good. Would be different setting a stall up "have rocker cover blinged while you wait" :thumbleft: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
