Polishing

[oscar_sande]

I'm in the process of paint striping the engine. At the end I decided to do it my self rather than take it to the sand/soda blasters.

A thought has occurred to me...has anyone ever tried to polish certain engine parts? Say the water pump cover or cam covers? Is the grade of aluminium able to keep a polish or will it tarnish very quickly? And are different engine components made from different grades of aluminium? For example the cylinder block compared to the crank case?

And if anyone has ever tried polishing the engine parts was polishing grade was used?

 

[one2dmax]

I've seen one engine completely polished so anything can be done. The castings suck so you'll always have "spots" in the finish that won't come completely out but it will still look nice. Too dang much work to re-polish all the time so we chrome everything.

Sean