i am the guy that wipes his boat down at the sandbar, but i still manage to get water spots on stuff. Looking for a easy way out. The intake is raw cast
Wash As Little As Possible With Very Mild Soap. Never Use Degreaser. I Spray And Wipe My Polished Parts With Windex. I Use Never Dull Or The Mothers Powerball.
I don't know anything about bling, but I know a guy that does. PM Bubba, aka Cripple Midget Racing on the boards. He is the most anal guy on the boards, hands down! He has polished aluminum heads, intake, block, even his oil pan is polished. AND.......... he does all his work with one hand. Seriously, PM him, whatever he uses is what you want.
LMFAO! Want to know what needs cleaning. My frick'n monitor. I just blew a diet Pepsi all over the thing from that post. I heard you were on Mother's Christmas card mailing lists. hand
Hey Dan, workin on getting the new motor in, should run out pretty good. I like that ceramic coat. Just trying to keep up with a polished scoop was too much for me. I use my boat just about every weekend so polished aluminum sucks.
I AGREE 100%........... I've seen his polished aluminum.
I use Mothers regular & Mothers Billet, and ALOT OF POLISHING TIME !!!
A couple of cold adult beverages along the way too !!
Obviously ceramic coatings can't compete from a shine aspect, but they sure are a lot easier to maintain. I just don't have the discipline that it takes to keep polished aluminum polished. Like you Kev I run my boat a lot. Pretty much every weekend in the summer. If I'm not at the river, it's running the lakes here in Arizona. No secret I hate polishing. Using it as much as we do, I'd have to be polishing all week so it looked good the next time out etc. etc.
Steve's ride is amazing and as I've said before........one of my favorites for sure. Unfortunately if I owned it, it would be clapped out in a couple months due to my non-maintaining ass. Not proud of that. Just stating fact. I know me.
Yeah I'll never have a motor that clean. I have dreams of polish,chrome,annodized, on a krylon budget haha.
Played around with the duplicolor metalcast candy rattle can today, it sprays thin but it's pretty cool stuff
And no that's not the carb I'm running
Not sure what he means by that (gets too hot). It's the same stuff they use on headers. Or maybe he means it gets too hot during the application process?
This is the second intake I've had done. The first one was a dual plane and I took it to them right out of the box. Still had all the casting marks in it and everything. It turned out o.k. but they're much better when sanded smooth and polished first. I had the valve covers done just to kinda tie everything in with the same look (and again.......because I'm too lazy to polish them). I'm told that you can actually use polishing compound on the ceramic coating after it's done and they'll shine a lot more than mine do in the picture. Not sure how true it is. I just picked em up at Jethot and my builder put em all on straight from the shop.
Not sure what he means by that (gets too hot). It's the same stuff they use on headers. Or maybe he means it gets too hot during the application process?
This is the second intake I've had done. The first one was a dual plane and I took it to them right out of the box. Still had all the casting marks in it and everything. It turned out o.k. but they're much better when sanded smooth and polished first. I had the valve covers done just to kinda tie everything in with the same look (and again.......because I'm too lazy to polish them). I'm told that you can actually use polishing compound on the ceramic coating after it's done and they'll shine a lot more than mine do in the picture. Not sure how true it is. I just picked em up at Jethot and my builder put em all on straight from the shop.
The guy said he has to heat the piece to 800 degrees and has warped a couple intakes due to heat-so he no longer does it? Anyone ever had this problem?bulb
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