At last years Alberta meet Swivel had his hood up and I thought myself damn that plenum looks horrible he has his cover off due to having a plenum spacer. So I offered to polish the upper plenum I have sitting in my garage. I was thinking if it worked out I could offer a little polishing service to local guys. Well it is close to being done, i was hoping Swivel would come down and finish it I hate the damn thing at this point . I realized I don't like polishing things that are not going on my car I have poor tools and do 90% of it by hand so it is long and drawn out. Any way here is how it progressed I might need a little more sanding but I am going to try to buff it into spec I know with proper tools (air tools) it wouldn't be bad but by hand it is painstaking......Swivel you had better cut a hole in your hood to show this thing off and I was thinking about melting down the 350z cover I have for you in my garage For the most part it wasn't that bad...if I get the results I wanted I am fairly picky and I won't know if its worth it or not till its done, anyway i hope Wayne enjoys it.

Starting out




Some sanding with my cordless drill.






Starting to get the casting all sanded off





I missed pictures of most of the hand sanding due to much of the work was done while I was staying away from home this winter.

Near the end but still needs lots of buffing maybe a little wet sanding






Just about there



I started working on it in the fall but to to an unexpected work load I didn't have the time I had hoped for originally but I spent two weeks sitting on a rig site and I spent most of my free time watching PBTV and polishing ...i worked on the plenum a bit as well

I know Wayne likes surprises for everyone so I hope you didn't plan on keep this under wraps!!!

 

That's looking awesome Gord, and I will TOTALLY show it off. I got plans.

 

Wow, you put in work on that plenum. SwivelHips better thank you big time!

 

Looks good Gord, Wayne owes you a 24 without a doubt! haha

I'm intrigued by what swivelhips said....

 

I'm actually pretty keen to make a trip up to LSI, how close are you to finishing your car?

 

A 24 in deed

I am also curious to what swivel has going on.

 

holy .. thats alot of work gord !!! Good Job !!!

i think someone in states do that for $300, and you send in your plenum for a new polished one.

 

Oh not too much, really, you know me...the king of hand-me-down mods.

 

Still waiting on a couple things, I'm dying though. Should be on the road Saturday morning and I couldn't be more excited, but it was supposed to be Thursday by the latest before the carbon guy dragged his ***!

 

Wow Gord !! thats mucho worko

Very Nice.

Swivel-lips is going to owe you big time

 

You guys all shush, or he'll know what all that work is really worth!

At that price...DONE!! Kokanee, right? Haha, I'm sure I can fix you up with something more as well, somewhere down the line.

 

Well done sir!

I hope people gain some appreciation for the work that goes into polishing.

 

You are getting off easy if that's all you are paying.

 

Damn this is on my mod list for sure, I need a iced out engine bay next.

 

You are a patient man Gord! Nice job. Funny that Swivel had the first reply... Do you ever log out Wayne?