Cleaning and polishing EFI mustang intakes??

[Hnrys69]

Anyone have any good ideas about how to clean a real dirty upper and lower intakes?? Once clean, I want to polish the upper. Does anyone know how to go about doing that?? Whats needed?? After polishing, can I clear coat it so it doesnt look like crap the first time I get it dirty??<br><br>Thanks.

 

[Amac70]

I tried several metheods to get mine clean i ended up taking it to work and glass bead blasting mine. That got them looking brand new. As for polishing your looking at a lot of time and work. With as porous as the cast aluminum is on these manifolds it would take a lot of time with a die grinder and or sand paper to get it to a point where you could begin to get a polish on it after that yes you could clear coat it to save the finish.<br>

 

[4byford]

I had an aluminum 4V 351 Cleveland powder coated in a nice shiny natural aluminum finish; it gave a smooth non porous sufrace that resists staining and dirt. The selection of colors was impressive, you can almost make it look like polished alminum with the different silvers available.

 

[rjlougee]

Check out http://www.eastwoodco.com/ for supplies and info on polishing. I've got some of the their catalogues and there's some info in there on it. Otherwise, the bead blast/powdercoat option sounds like a good one to me.<br>Joe