polished my valve cover today

selfinfliction · 2008-02-03 23:24:49

before: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00244.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00243.jpg after: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00245.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00246.jpg no flash: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00247.jpg flash: http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00249.jpg http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b33/selfinfliction/car/DSC00250.jpg it's shiney :cssNET:

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Feb 3, 2008 | 06:24 PM

selfinfliction

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polished my valve cover today

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it's shiney

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:32 PM

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damn dude that looks SICK very nice job!

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:34 PM

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Wow, very nice! Looks awesome, good job. Really makes me wanna polish mine...

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:34 PM

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How did you do it?

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:35 PM

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looks nice man

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:35 PM

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:O it's beautiful.. LOL

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:36 PM

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yah 2 for me i wanna no how u did it also

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:40 PM

Matt A

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yea that looks hot.. nice job man

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:43 PM

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nice job i did my 2.2's hand polished took me months to get it just right

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:45 PM

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you ss/sc guys are lucky with your valve covers and having so many flat surfaces. mine is all arched and grooved.

Feb 3, 2008 | 06:57 PM

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how i did it lol...

8 hours and about $300 worth of tools. nothing on that was done by hand except the final polish after it was put in the car. semi-complicated process that would take me an hour to explain

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:01 PM

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there is a how-to by CherryGT on g5club.net

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:17 PM

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nice job

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:18 PM

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there is a how-to by CherryGT on g5club.net

Thanks for the info

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:33 PM

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That looks awesome!!!! Great job!

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:39 PM

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hehe, wait until i do the paxton charger this week. today i was out of 2000 grit paper, so this valve cover is only down to 1000 grit. the paxton will be to a F'n mirror finish

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:40 PM

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are you still running your turbo setup?

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by outtamymind

you ss/sc guys are lucky with your valve covers and having so many flat surfaces. mine is all arched and grooved.

Your right, not to mention that the two humps over each cam are different sizes -- the aft exhaust cam section is smaller than the front intake section so it never will look perfect...makes you wonder why GM did that.....maybe for the spark plug wire routing.

SS/SC engine look good with polished VCs!

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:44 PM

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oh ya they look really good with the blower and VC polished. and i still did mine. i have to touch it up in the spring as its a little dirty right now.

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:45 PM

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yeah mine to haha

Feb 3, 2008 | 07:57 PM

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are you still running your turbo setup?

nah i almost killed myself with it, and decided fwd cars don't need 400hp. sold it a few months back to someone out of tennessee, so someone is running around with a 400whp gt-k setup, don't know if they're on here or not i sold the kit on racingjunk.com

i went and bought a supra so i can have a big power car, but rwd lol