Polishing intake system

[Fred Smailes]

I've had to modify lot of the intake system to make it fit in my car so I stripped the paint and polished the tubes, hat etc.
To keep the look I've needed to do the throttle body and SC feed tube. Seeing as the intake system has to all come off to do injector orings now is the time.
But boy is too hat tube a convoluted casting!
Decided to clean up what I don't need.
The intake tube is upside down in the vise.

 

[Fred Smailes]

Coming along. Don't spend too much time on it at once, 1/2 hr here and there

 

[White Lincoln]

Very nice! I can tell by your face that you at least wore goggles... Things look so nice when you polish them up.

 

[dDUBb]

Welds look very nice. You should be wearing a dust mask at minimum though.

 

[White Lincoln]

Welds look very nice. You should be wearing a dust mask at minimum though.

I was going to mention that weld job... very clean and professionaly done. Kudos to you!

 

[Fred Smailes]

Putting some of it back together.
Any guesses on how long I looked for that bolt,,,FFFFFFFFF!

 

[Zep5.0]

20 minutes in the bolt been there and done that!

 

[Fred Smailes]

I was going to mention that weld job... very clean and professionaly done. Kudos to you!

I had a professional weld it. I'm respectable at aluminum welding and did all the rest of the tube mods but no longer have access to the equipment.

 

[Fred Smailes]

It took awhile to sort out how to fit the intercooler piping and the pieces were very poor cast so getting a clean polishable weld took a few passes. Building the oil pickup in the pan was more work than the tunnel.

 

[supergordo]

Wild! Nice work! Very unique!