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Old 15-07-2006, 05:12 PM   #1
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just thought i'd share a few pics of what i've had done so far.

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what do you think?
still have a few things to do yet. one question, has anyone powder coated their fuel rail yet? just that it needs to be sand blasted and i don't know if it would be such a good idea.

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Old 15-07-2006, 05:17 PM   #2
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i take it, with that weld mark, you've opened up the manifold and ported / smoothed out the runners.......good stuff!

looks awesome polished!
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Old 15-07-2006, 05:20 PM   #3
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looks ace mate, ima do this later on when i get more serious with the engine mods
how much it set you back

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Old 15-07-2006, 05:56 PM   #4
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Intake manifold and throttle body look insane. Did you do it yourself? Absolute magic.
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Old 15-07-2006, 06:05 PM   #5
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Looks brilliant!!!!
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Old 15-07-2006, 07:45 PM   #6
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the manifold looks damn nice! Good stuff.
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Old 15-07-2006, 10:35 PM   #7
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looks real fine, I s'pose you had alot of spare time on your hands, no seriously that look like it took some time to do.
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Old 15-07-2006, 10:41 PM   #8
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missed a spot :P
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Old 15-07-2006, 10:56 PM   #9
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Looks good. That'll look great when it's all put together!
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Old 16-07-2006, 12:35 AM   #10
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Well done! Nice and shiney Gonna look nice when it's put together for sure!
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Old 16-07-2006, 12:52 AM   #11
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ive gotta ask the obvious sorry, how did u get it like that?? just chromed?
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Old 16-07-2006, 01:58 AM   #12
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Looks amazing, kinda wish i had gone to the effort of polishing mine before the HPC :/
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Old 16-07-2006, 02:56 AM   #13
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ive gotta ask the obvious sorry, how did u get it like that?? just chromed?

well it's cast so all you have to do is sand it back (take the cast marks out and pits) and then polish it on a buff wheel. i done the alternator myself and got someone else to do the intake/throttle body.
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Old 16-07-2006, 09:21 AM   #14
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great work there, whats the deal with that weld? is that normal?
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Old 16-07-2006, 01:09 PM   #15
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great work there, whats the deal with that weld? is that normal?

when i got the head worked they did my intake aswell. they opened it up and cleaned up all edges where the runners join up to that bottom bit. it just lets it flow heaps better.
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Old 16-07-2006, 01:12 PM   #16
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really looks good mate, a little hard work and things look heaps better.
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Old 16-07-2006, 01:25 PM   #17
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Certainly alters the look of the standard intake runners that is for sure!!!
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Old 16-07-2006, 09:06 PM   #18
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thanks for the replys guys! bit more painting to do and all will be sweet. anyone know about sandblasting the fuel rail?
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Old 16-07-2006, 09:57 PM   #19
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Very Nice Bling, Love the manifold and the rocker cover.

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Old 20-07-2006, 07:02 PM   #20
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so what did you use to get it so smooth and shiny??
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just a litle hand held air grinder to get all the cast marks out. i'll take a pic of it. then just used the buff wheel with a bit of rouge. theres some stuff you can get at super cheap but i can't think of the name at the moment.
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Old 20-07-2006, 08:26 PM   #22
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Yeh some pics and stuff that you use to polish it would be awesome, I wouldn't mind polishing a few items up myself. They look awesome!
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Old 20-07-2006, 10:05 PM   #23
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what bit in the grinder do you use??
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Old 20-07-2006, 10:18 PM   #24
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righto heres some pics. i only did my alternator with this stuff. had a go on the manifold but it sanding it was pretty hard, doing the runners was fine but the bottom bit was a pain in the *** cause i kept taking to much off in spots and when i ran my fingers over it i could feel the bumps.

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rouge i use on buff wheel. there are different colours for different metals


sanding disks, i used the blue hairy one. it's the lightest grade. the others in the pic are all real rough ones for welds and metal.



hope that helps, but there is real good stuff at supercheap you can use. i haven't yet but i'll get some tomorrow and tell ya the name of it.

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Old 25-07-2006, 09:54 PM   #25
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hi all,

i've decided to get my fuel rail powder coated the same whit as my rocker cover. there was a few problems i had to overcome though. firstly they have to sand blast it and i didn't think that would be very good when it got all inside the fuel rail, so i made up a few plugs on the lathe.




so hopefully that will do the job. the 2nd problem was that the clips that hold the injectors to the rail can't be powder coated casue they will get to hot and losse their spring. so tomorrow i'll be getting them chromed aswell as a few nuts and bolts. so hopefully everything goes well and looks awsome under the bonnet.

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Old 25-07-2006, 11:17 PM   #26
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Looks awesome man well done!!!!!!!!!!
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