MM, polishing your new manifolds

I posted the below responce in another unrelated thread where you asked about polishing your new manifolds. I just didn't want you to miss it. This just gives you another option to doing it by hand which may be difficult.

MM, Save all the elbow grease and send them out to have them vibrotory finished. By hand it is going to be real hard to get down into all the detail and between the individual ports coming from each cylinder. If you are not familiar with the process, it's a big vibrating drum with different grades and types of abrasive media in it into which the piece parts are placed. It my take several stages of media to do it depending on the finish you want. They can take it out to a almost mirror but just like paint, the more the gloss, the more defects will be seen.

Nate, Ground corn cob is one of the medias that vibrotory finishers use!!!

MM,

When you finish polishing your manifolds are you going to polish Reid's Shaft? After that you should also think about polishing your knob!!

Mark your not going to be able to get every where so don't expect to. Mine which are the same with different water inlet and outlet than yours but the area's your not going to be able to get very good are the sides of the runners everything else is accessable. I'll try and get a shot of mine to show you the areas the factory left a little rough and unpolished.

Figures quinner would be the first to jump on the knob polishing.

john

Right you are eric, Randy holds the title of offical knob polisher here.

john