aluminum intake cosmetics

[Dan Zorde]

Hi Jim,

When I did my Chev TPI, I just had all the parts acid dipped to clean them 
(special stuff for aluminium).  Painted the manifold in black engine enamel 
(same as rest of engine) as this is fairly chemical resistant.  Polished up 
the runners.  Painted the plenum in black wrinkle paint (can handle a fair 
bit of heat), polished the lines and the lettering on the top.  Loks very 
nice, not too much shine as on show cars and easy to keep.  Aluminium needs 
to be regularly polished or it will go dull.  Saw one out of a Jag that was 
the opposite, everything polished and painted runners, didn't really like 
it (looked to wanky) and the guy reckoned it took forever to polish the 
whole top end, especially the little corners you can't get into.

Dan	dzorde at soanar.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From:	James Weiler [SMTP:james at brc.ubc.ca]
Sent:	Friday, March 05, 1999 1:18 AM
To:	Greg Hermann
Cc:	diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject:	Re: aluminum intake cosmetics

Who or what are they?  Got a 1-800 number or a web page?
thanks,
jw


On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Greg Hermann wrote:

> Send them to HPC guys---have them coated inside and out--look good, and
> help performance too!
>
> Regards, Greg
> >