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Wow that's cool. I am in the same boat. I just bought a sand blaster and having a lot of fun. I just cleaned up my stock intake manifold. Looks like new. How did you get these pieces to look like that.

 

Alex

Alex,

 

First I knocked down the two bolt provisions with a bench grinder, switching and stopping regularly to avoid heat build up and cracking. Once they were mostly gone I transitioned to a flapper/sanding wheel using my hand drill. After that there was lots of hand sanding involving gradually finer grains, untill I had a nice mirror polish. Then off for powder coat!

Nice, powder coating is my next endeavour. The intake was sandblasted by a friend of mine with glass beads. I tried course walnut shells on my engine compartment and that was a big disappointment. I didn't want to use to much of a course material because the metal is so thin. So here we go with the old fashion way.