I want to polish a spare turbo housing this weekend, I'm gonna go get the stuff to do it tomorrow..what am I gonna need? Any tips?
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What housing? A stock one or an s400? Stock housings are pretty easy since the casting is so smooth to begin with.
I had a 68mm wheel put in my stocker a while ago and decided I'd shine it up too so it looks pretty sitting on the shelf. I sanded off the "garrett" and a few other markings. I just used a cloth buffing wheel in my bench top buffer with a mix of the white and brown polishing compound. It worked nice. It was still alot of work. I have probably 12-14 hours of elbow grease into that.
I know I've seen the "polished cover" upgrade when buying turbos for an additional $60-$80, a rough housing I would definitely pay someone else $80 to do it for me. It takes a crap load of time to bring a rough housing to a shine.
Ya I've seen that, I don't have the time to polish mine. Which if I had somewhere to send it and it wasn't two arms and a leg id send it as I don't need it right now anyway.
I had a 68mm wheel put in my stocker a while ago and decided I'd shine it up too so it looks pretty sitting on the shelf. I sanded off the "garrett" and a few other markings. I just used a cloth buffing wheel in my bench top buffer with a mix of the white and brown polishing compound. It worked nice. It was still alot of work. I have probably 12-14 hours of elbow grease into that.
Looks awesome!! What kind of paper did you use? Preference on a polish?
I just used some aluminum oxide twist locks in my angle die grinder. I use used some cheap harbor freight brand polish. The round stick type. They work just fine.