Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

I say skip polishing the manifold and buy a sweet body kit.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

+ wood screws

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Maybe ceramic clear coat? Is there such a thing?


haha

I hear gorilla glue holds good too lol

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

R is for race.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Long story, you didn't know his old 2g...

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

The thing with ceramic coating is that it needs something to grab on to (mechanical adhesion) and if you polish the manifold, there won't be anything for it to grab on to and the first time it gets hot it's all gonna fall off.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

How about your sheet metal exhaust manifold idea? That would be nice and shiny. SMEM anyone? :lol:

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

And then watch it rust, or at least look like absolute dogshit. I'm coating mine this spring.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

well i've done some cast metal polishing. u can clean it. to get it smooth your going to have to sand it down alot. starting with very coarse slowly higher and higher grits up to highest grit u can find. 3m has a wet 3000 disk. sometimes water help the high grit papers from clogging up so fast. then some sort of buffer or polisher with high speed 3000rpm least. but dont go to high. and use some heavy compond or metal polish up to a fine polish so get that shine. car parts store in body section or body supply store will have it. then i would look into clear powder coat. or sand it smooth and have it cromed or nickel coated would work too. it would probably be easier to have it coated with something after u sand it smooth. it will be hard to polish in all the little spots.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Ok, lets see some pics of this thing already!!

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Ill post some tomorrow. its far from finished. but im at a standstill with the project right now because the piston and rod havent come in, so i will have time to get the manifold nice, and make you all jealous. WOOT. then i figure after its done and if it starts to rust a bit, just grab some steel wool and wha la, back to shiney.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

As strange as this sounds, I actually watched a guy do this at a car show. He had the engine up to temp and idling, then started spraying Armor-all on his exhaust manifolds. The Armor-all turned a charcoal grey and solid. Looked just like a ceramic coating. Craziest thing I ever saw. When the engine cooled off, it was hard to the touch and stuck like crazy glue. No bull shit, I swear, I'm not making this up.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

I'd be all for the Armor All idea, but I also want the heat retention a good coating can provide. The FP manifold makes the front engine area noticeably hotter than my previous manifolds. Heat dispersion before the turbo=bad.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Pics so far. Im getting kinda sick of doing this already. LOL

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

How much time into it so far?

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Days man, DAYS,............... :lol:

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Like between today and tomorrow..... about an hour and a half. :) maybe less than that. :woohoo1:

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

looks good, at least your not doing it by hand...lol

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Still looks like a turd. FP mani for the win, Steve is right it did make the bay a lot hotter, but once I got mine coated it was a lot cooler.

Re: Polishing the cast manifold.
 

Have fun keeping it from rusting. :)