I have created a Facebook Group in two sections. One International and one Swedish. The Group is here: Facebook Polishing Group

Step 15. Yessss! Finally its time to polish! Here i have put a couple of layers of tape on the vice to protect the surface:

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_{Step 16. I have put a buffing wheel on the drill and i have a quite finegrained polishing compound (vax). I use the electric drill awhile, degrease the pipe before i put on a new buffing wheel and use the final wax compound with very very fine grain for finalising and getting that mirrorshine. Always use separate buffing wheels to each grain!}

_{Step 17. After a couple of minutes with the fist compound. I wear a red fleecejacket and blue jeans.. =)}

<sub>Step 18. 5 minutes later:

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_{Step 19. Almost done! Here i use the very fine white waxpowder for a final shine:}

_{Step 20. After all hard work its done! I degrease and apply Sonax hardwax to protect the surface:}

_{Put that part to your collection, grab a beer and then grind the living crap ut of the next unshiny part you can find =)}

I have created a Facebook Group in two sections. One International and one Swedish. The Group is here: Facebook Polishing Group

Maintaining the surface shiny!

I get lots of questions about how to keep the polished part shiny. The environment surrounding the engine will sooner or later make the polished aluminum to oxidate and get dirty. I can only give advice from my own experience and i have chosen to not paint my parts with clear coat. The reason is that a shiny surface is real easy to clean, think about it.

Say that you would by accident pour panit on a mirror and a piece of concrete, of course the mirror allows the least grip and will be much easier to clean! Once aluminum i shiny it will be quite easy keeping it that way. Using products like Autosol or Meguiars “All metal polysh” and a towel, it does not take that much time to keep your parts shiny. If you do it often it will be easy! To preserve your part then use an ordinary wax i.e. Sonax liquid hardwax or any product like that.

Dirt wont stick that easy and if it does its really simple to wipe off with a towel. Keeping the parts polished and waxed you will have a nice enginebay to enjoy! If you decide that you want clearcoat on your parts keep in mind that one must be very carefull when putting all parts in place. A small crack in the cleacoat will grow and allow water, dirt and other liquids to at some point destroy the painted part.Then you have to remove it, remove all paint, polish your part and then paint it again. I wont say clearcoat is a no-no, but it didnt work that well for me.

I drove 90 swedish miles in rain, with my scoop and hoodvents that really helps water getting in, and i was surprised that my parts didnt look like crap after that trip! This picure is taken when i´ve used my car for about two weeks without after i put it togeather, ok its some dirt and grease, but it does not look that bad.

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