9 hours and its finally finished look at those curves!

[TrannyB]

Took me nine hours to transform this plenum to a smooth and shiney thing of beauty that it is now hard work but well worth it cant wait to fit. More polished custom mods to follow watch this space!

 

[bmh.01]

Nice job with that.

 

[Cookie]

Shiny! Good job

 

[G_F]

Fookin el, good effort mate. how much do you charge

 

[W17GLE]

how the hell did you do that? i'll spend 9 hours doing it if i can get mine looking like that

 

[TrannyB]

how the hell did you do that? i'll spend 9 hours doing it if i can get mine looking like that

you need and pencil grinder, alot of wet and dry, some good polishing wheels and lots of patience!lol

 

[W17GLE]

i'll get some wet and dry etc off my mate and i'll give it ago. it'll definately make the engine bay look a lot better. i'll post pics if i ever get time to do it.

 

[vavazoom]

u ****!that looks quality wish i had sumting to polish on my car lol!:S

 

[Jayb 172]

thats some serious work youve put into that looks great

 

[TrannyB]

Fookin el, good effort mate. how much do you charge

you would be looking at bout £200 mate

 

[TomTom]

Bloody hell good effort mate as said above, I couldn't sit there for 9 hours doing it though

 

[xcliox]

that looks great bud nice job

 

[172.com]

Fookin el, good effort mate. how much do you charge

you would be looking at bout £200 mate

How's 50p an hour sound?

 

[TrannyB]

you would be looking at bout £200 mate

How's 50p an hour sound?

happy rubbing!lol

 

[DebV6]

Shiney! Don't think I'd have the patience to do that for 9 hours!

 

[Racingblue182]

Im gonna order some drill bits tomorrow that I can buff and polish with, could well save some time?
How do you remove that beast anyway?

 

[TrannyB]

Im gonna order some drill bits tomorrow that I can buff and polish with, could well save some time?
How do you remove that beast anyway?

dont know mate picked this one up from a breakers for £40 im a welder/fabricator i leave the mechanics to the people who know what they are doing, plus my mate works for renault

 

[TrannyB]

Im gonna order some drill bits tomorrow that I can buff and polish with, could well save some time?
How do you remove that beast anyway?

go careful not to get to carried away mate and make sure it is really smooth before polishing otherwise all makes will show

 

[DH_GTI]

lot of work there well done

 

[TrannyB]

Took me nine hours to transform this plenum to a smooth and shiney thing of beauty that it is now hard work but well worth it cant wait to fit. More polished custom mods to follow watch this space!

i will be doing another one soon and i will be putting it up for offers so watch out for it

 

[Rhino172]

£50? good job by the way looks mint! you putting an engine cover over it? what colour if you are?

 

[Dave]

I have other things I'd rather spend 9hrs polishing.

 

[172.com]

I have other things I'd rather spend 9hrs polishing.

?

 

[Ryan k]

Wow thats loads better.
Have you got any before pics???

 

[Middo]

looks good. just wondering what bits you used to polish inbetween the letters. using a dremel myself and its painstaking to say the least lol

 

[TrannyB]

I have other things I'd rather spend 9hrs polishing.

from what i have heard it wouldnt take ya 9hrs more like 9 secs!lol

 

[TrannyB]

looks good. just wondering what bits you used to polish inbetween the letters. using a dremel myself and its painstaking to say the least lol

use a wire brush attachment but make sure its stainless and be careful not tobe to rough cus you might wear to much of the letters away

 

[TrannyB]

£50? good job by the way looks mint! you putting an engine cover over it? what colour if you are?

50 quid for what? for 9 hrs work id get more at tesco buddy! got monaco blue engine cover to go over it

 

[Racingblue182]

I would really love to do this but I seriously doubt i'd have the patience to finish it so alas mine can stay how it is, i'll pick up an engine cover instead!

 

[Mike_182]

I have to say as nice as it looks I'd want it better than that because I'm a perfectionist - there's still the dimples between the letters etc and that's what puts me off doing it.

Bloody shiny though, can tell you haven't got a Mrs with polishing action like that!

 

[Neil G]

Good job

Wish I could be bothered to do mine but I haven't got 9 hours to spare

 

[Rhino172]

£50? good job by the way looks mint! you putting an engine cover over it? what colour if you are?

50 quid for what? for 9 hrs work id get more at tesco buddy! got monaco blue engine cover to go over it

haha was worth a go...how much would you be looking at selling the other one for once it's done?

would love to see it once it's in with the engine cover on as it's exactly what I was thinking about doing...(as my clio is monaco blue too)

 

[TrannyB]

I have to say as nice as it looks I'd want it better than that because I'm a perfectionist - there's still the dimples between the letters etc and that's what puts me off doing it.

Bloody shiny though, can tell you haven't got a Mrs with polishing action like that!

This one is one of two i have. Now that i have done one i know what the flaws are. So the next one will be better and plus now i have a dremmel! I am to a perfectionist!

 

[Colin-S]

Top work, nice and shiney, can eat your dinner off it.

 

[Fletcher]

Looks great, puts mine to shame.

 

[Geddes]

WOW very good job

 

[Double Deux Dan]

:hail:

 

[cat171]

9 hours sod that. You can get them on an exchange basis from places - you send them your normal looking bits & they send them back all polished up, saves all that messing about

 

[TrannyB]

9 hours sod that. You can get them on an exchange basis from places - you send them your normal looking bits & they send them back all polished up, saves all that messing about

guess what! i am one of those people you send them off too and you pay me to do it. My time costs me nothing!:rasp: