Polished my heat shield [Merged 6-8]

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

Welp, after having a leaky VCG, my heat shield was covered with ugly oil. To get it off, I soaked it in soapy water with a little bit of turpentine <sp> and other household chemicals to get as much grime off as i could. Then, I put a wire wheel on a dye grinder to shine it up some. The grinding took about 15 minutes tops. My next step is to put some polishing compound on it...Tell me what you think...Keep in mind that before it was ugly and brown from oil.



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[taylorspl]

the pics don't work

 

[taylorspl]

here ya go mang,

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Later.

P.S. Awesome dipstick

 

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

thx

 

[Laser0385]

Wish mine looked that nice! Nice job.

 

[ClutchTSI/AWD]

I polished mine too . Actualy I made it also . looks good man , nice job .

 

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

Looks nice, what did you use to polish the VC? Same wire wheel on a dye or a dremel type thing to keep from pullin it off? Was considerin that next

 

[GoSpeedRacerGo]

Also, I'm sure you all love my dipstick new 1g one is on backorder

 

[taylorspl]

Adam sandpaper is generally used to take it down going up in grit to get the imperfections gone. Then a polishing compound is used on a buffing wheel. You are about 1/3 the way there if you like we can get together sometime and I can finish mine too.

 

[SilverEclipseGS]

Boys,
All I have to say about it is two words







BLING BLING
Looks real good, I'll have to do that...

 

[Airpoppoff]

i got board and did mine too, a while ago, looks good guys

 

[taylorspl]

Airpopoff is that valve cover powdercoated or painted? Looks hella sweet.

 

[Airpoppoff]

Originally posted by taylorspl
Airpopoff is that valve cover powdercoated or painted? Looks hella sweet.

Painted it myself, 500deg engine temp paint its called "cast coat iron", works great no problems, just used a dremel to polish the letters....

 

[taylorspl]

Yup I'm going to have to do that now, thanks for the info.

 

[herostar]

all of you guy's stuff looks real nice... I'm kinda broke right now so looks like I'm going to have to do some free stuff to make my car look better... (polishing, painting, etc...)

 

[Airpoppoff]

hell yeah the paint for a can is like 3 bucks at schucks/kragen

 

[cucumber]

I guess its time for me to try.

 

[HyperGSX]

Originally posted by cucumber
I guess its time for me to try.

Same here...mine's all black

 

[DSMTurboEclipse]

I've seen a few of these in the gallery and I was wondering where I could get one. My heat shield is beat to hell and I'd like to spruce up the engine bay with a polished one. Thanks.

 

[DSM_GSX4life]

I got mine on ebay. or u could just do it yourself. its not that hard.

 

[greenmachine97]

ok here is what i got for you:
this is my new exhaust manifold cover/heat shield, how does that fit your bill?
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116198

unfortunately i dont have access to the metal working tools anymore. but i can PM you the measurements on how to do it your self.

 

[DSM_GSX4life]

ur profile pic looks nice. The link does not work BTW.

 

[cuttheduck]

Not polished BUT
1,200 degree aluminum colored paint is 4.99 and works WONDERS .

mine came out the same color as powdercoated "chrome" dejontool piping.
Takes 5 minutes too,,,, just an idea........

 

[1fast97gsx]

ok here is what i got for you:
this is my new exhaust manifold cover/heat shield, how does that fit your bill?
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/sho...threadid=116198

unfortunately i dont have access to the metal working tools anymore. but i can PM you the measurements on how to do it your self.

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corrected.

 

[WSU99GSX]

There was a post with directions on how to do this, so I decided that it would be a good cheap mod. Wow it turned out great, not mirror, but for the time it took, well see for yourself....