polishing rocker cover

[e30-320i]

i have spent a couple of hours each night after work cleaning up my rocker cover i started with coarse sandpaper and have worked down to fine wire wool and autosol but now i cant get it any better than this should i keep going or is this as good as it gets.
sorry pics aint very good
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[smithy318i]

Is that a bit of sarcasm ?

you could eat your dinner off that... or at least check your hair doo !

[e30-320i]

it looks hazy though dont you think or am i expecting too much

[dazleeds]

how many hours did it take mate??
looks very nice might have to do a few and put em on fleabay for bigbucks

[e30-320i]

i'd say prob about 10 hours so far mate not too bad as i'd never done anything like this before i might bolt this one on as it is then polish the new one and see if that comes up any better i can then flog on the one i dont want.

[koos]

That looks really really neat dude, should spray it with clear laquer, then it will stay that way.

[dazleeds]

could always machine polish i guess to save time

hmmm might have a go at polishing 1 up

[e30-320i]

That looks really really neat dude, should spray it with clear laquer, then it will stay that way.

thanks mate didnt think of that will i need a specific one due to the heat

[Chaos]

they dont get that hot.
few of us have painted our rocker box covers with normal paint and theyre all ok.

[koos]

Dont know dude, speak to a paint shop and see what they say?

[e30-320i]

they dont get that hot.
few of us have painted our rocker box covers with normal paint and theyre all ok.

i wanna do the inlet manifold now but i aint got a spare do you know if it'll be possible to do the top of it with it on the car.

[Chaos]

i wanna do the inlet manifold now but i aint got a spare do you know if it'll be possible to do the top of it with it on the car.

i know richy sprayed his while it was on the car, but i dunno how easy it will be to polish in place.

[dazleeds]

heres mine was done off the car tho
and i havent polished up the lettering cos wanted it different this was just a very quick spray with matt black


e30-320i
theres an inlet on ebay now bin Ԛ£5 +1150 delivery

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-E30-320-inlet ... dZViewItem

[e30-320i]

i'm in two minds actually thinking of painting mine and just polish the raised bit on top.

[JazzMan]

Frost will have all the stuff you need for finishing off:

http://www.frost.co.uk/productList.asp?catID=27