Mirror Manifold Polishing

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I registered some time ago to get an old set of B7 RS4 discs as I was doing a full conversion on my Passat and needed them for sizing before shelling out and thankfully S4INT managed to pass a set on....turned out that I needed RS6+ discs, but thats another story.

Anyway back to the request. I have a friend, Darren that likes a challenge so I asked him to smooth and polish my intake manifold. He is now after his next challenge and he is desperate to do a B7 RS4 manifold so I thought this would be the best place to ask around.

He is an absolute perfectionist and took down every cast line, even took down the raised areas between the 3 parts of my mani and spent more hours than he charged getting it right.

Some pics of mine during and complete
Original with a sand like finish

Start fo the process flatting doen

Taking down the raised part between the manifold parts



Rounding the intakes

Even the underside was done

Stage 1 of the polishing process

More work on smoothing and rounding the intakes

Stage 2 of polishing starting to build a shine


Finished mani with an original one



For the hours work he would take you would be looking at around £800 for the work, but as this would be his first he is willing to do one for half that at £400.

If anyone is up for it please pm Darren his username is dubbed_up_daz and again his work top notch.

Cheers

[sonny]

WOW im impressed, looks good.

[dubbed_up_daz]

cheers sonny,couple more pics






manifolds are pretty challenging and ive done a fair few now,wanted to do a V6 24v from a mk4 next and take the plinth off(was planning on running my mk1 jetta with that engine)until i discovered they were plastic(goes for the swap too,im just going a more raditional OBD1 vrT)but id been looking at various pictures of manifolds and found decent images of the V8 inlet and would like a shot at one