Polishing, Sandpaper or Steelwool???
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Polishing, Sandpaper or Steelwool???
Ive heard of either using 10 different kinds of sandpaper then using an aluminum polish to get the mirror shine on parts under the hood or even using steel wool then the polish. Which is better, im trying to get that perfect mirror look to my parts. any suggestions id greatly appreciate
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Car: 1989 IROC-Z
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I've never tried steel wool, but I've tried the many grits of sandpaper and it worked well... not as well as a couple grits and polishing compounds though.
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You'll have to use compounds to get a "perfect mirror" shine. Just the aluminum polish and sandpaper/steel wool will get it shiney, and mirror-like, but you'll always see a bit of hazyness or cloudiness that you can't get out with aluminum polish (because it's actually the cause..)
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I use this stuff called "NeverDull". You can pick it up at Auto Zone, etc. You rub your **** off but it looks good after!
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Car: 1989 IROC-Z
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Heres a pic of my LT1 fuel rails. The one further away was done with the many grits of sandpaper method. The closer one was done with compounds and polishing wheels (even though I didn't use the wheels at high RPMs, I just used my hand to see how well they worked. Still came out REALLY shiny
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No we mean metal buffing compounds. Made specifically to put a mirror finish on metals. That pic Metalli posted was a good example. You see how on the foreground rail you can see the shadows and darker colors better? That's usually an effect of a rouge. For aluminum it's a coloring process and makes a night and day difference in the shine. Even better with wheels.
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For that fuel rail, I used a sisal wheel with emery compound, then a sewn wheel with emery compound, then sewn with tripoli, and finally canton flannel with white rouge which really made it shine. I can't wait to use them at high RPMs to do my wheels
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Eastwood has what you want. I still dont see how you guys can polish by hand. I would go insane taking that long to polish stuff.
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Eastwood has what you want. I still dont see how you guys can polish by hand. I would go insane taking that long to polish stuff.
Eastwood has what you want. I still dont see how you guys can polish by hand. I would go insane taking that long to polish stuff.
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