aluminium polishing or chroming

[zia]

wish to polish or chrome my inlet manifold (just exterior) and other aluminium bits what is best method? or is it possible to get it chromed?

zia

 

[Keira]

carl (gtir303) got some bits chromed i think..

try pm'ing him

 

[JU5TY]

I polished my plenum then got it chromed.

I’m in the process of doing the inlet manifold at the moment, it’s a big job! May just polish the inlet as the chromer said they couldn’t chrome it, but may get a second opinion on that.

 

[zia]

the first section where the throttle bodies are seems rather intricate to be chromed unless you remove the butterflies and springs etc? justy what did you use to polish it sandpaper etc method? getting into the nooks and crannies is really hard !! :?

zia

 

[coxie]

have you tried autosol or similar mate :?:

 

[zia]

have you tried autosol or similar mate

pardon my ignorance put never heard of it what is it?

zia

 

[JU5TY]

Yeah I very much doubt you can get the throttle body assembly chromed, especially if they said they cant even do the inlet manifold, still I have my doubts, so will get a 2nd opinion about the inlet.

Yeah I used sand paper, started on 60 grit, worked my way down to 1000 grit wet and dry, then used a polishing kit. Took me over a month to do the Plenum! Its pain staking work!

Autosol is just a metal polish, you could use that to keep the shiny finish once its been polished with the proper mops.

Here is my Plenum...

 

[zia]

thats fantastic!! :shock: am not in hurry so i,ll try your way, might even do the other bits.

thanks guys
zia

 

[AndrewD]

Yeah I used sand paper, started on 60 grit, worked my way down to 1000 grit wet and dry, then used a polishing kit. Took me over a month to do the Plenum! Its pain staking work!

Here is my Plenum...

top quality work there mate

thats is the nuts!!!!

did you use a linishing disk on a bench grinder? cause damn i dont think i could take a month of rubbing it like a gene to get it that shiny

 

[JU5TY]

It’s been chromed in that picture, but to be honest it hardly looked any different when it was just polished.
Once I had sanded it down to 1000 grit wet and dry I used a polishing kit. All the work is in the sanding...

Polished the inside of both the plenum and inlet manifold as well.

 

[briitts]

Hmm, nice!

 

[H980 Pulsarkid]

I like all this sort of thing - I plan to go all bufty on my one like the ford boys do !

 

[gtirmouse]

it looks really good justin, think im gonna start chroming some bits on mine. i dont know where u had yours done but i spoke to that bloke who has the silver almera with the black stripes up the side and the flamer kit and he had his done at

www.chrome-plating.co.uk