 Polishing the intercooler |
 Mar 22, 2011 - 6:41 AM
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First I attacked my intercooler with with paint stripper to reveal some rough cast aluminum. Then took to it with some 400 grit sandpaper, smoothed it off with 1200 grit. Finally after hours and hours of elbow grease I got to finish it off with Autosol. Did the same to the turbo shield...
The results... (cell phone camera doesn't do it much justice)  
-------------------- Mike W
1996 Toyota Celica ST205 GT-FOUR GT2860RS turbine, TiAL mvr44, JE 86.5φ piston, Clutchmasters FX400, APEX P-FC 269awhp / 273ft-lbs |
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Mar 23, 2011 - 7:53 PM
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Nice work, heat shield looks especially good. Plan to do this to mine one day soon, eh black paint on my intercooler is chipping off everywhere now. Interesting about the 15 years of gunk in your intercooler, makes me think mine will be filthy lol
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delusionz Polishing the intercooler Mar 22, 2011 - 6:41 AM
malpaso wow... looks great. I can not imagine how much wor... Mar 22, 2011 - 6:59 AM delusionz Oh, while I was at it I sent 3 cans of carby clean... Mar 22, 2011 - 7:26 AM schmooot you will need to seal that with something now or i... Mar 28, 2011 - 3:16 PM delusionz ^--- This is true.
Generally I just leave it as i... Mar 28, 2011 - 6:55 PM
TerBeau clear coat it..! Apr 3, 2011 - 5:57 PM |
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