Can you Polish a motorcycle engine?
I have a 2008 Honda VTX 1300r and I want to polish the air fins on the motor to make it look not so dull compared to the rest of the bike. Any ideas or links to help me out? Thanks in advance guys and gals
kinda like this--->
As Dimo said, you can polish the fins on your bike to shine like a mirror (without chrome).
http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsearch/result?q=polish+kit
Engines can be polished but it's a project to be done with the engine apart, not while assembled.
Engine parts, heads, cylinders are not chrome plated but you can have covers plated.
As far as the picture, you could emory cloth the edges of the cooling fins and get some chrome covers to achieve the look in that picture
In your picture there are chrome rocker covers, chrome push rod covers, chrome air cleaner and a chrome cam cover, then the edges of the cooling fins aren't even polished, they are just cut so they are silver.
Ah, no, it is not chrome. You CAN polish aluminum to be as bright as chrome.
Me, I like rats. I haven't cleaned a vehicle since the mid-1970's. But If I was to polish anything vehicle, I would start with Eastwood's stuff: www.eastwood.com (has been trusted since 1978)
http://search.eastwood.com/search?p=KK&srid=S1-USESD01&lbc=eastwood&ts=custom&pw=aluminum%20polish&uid=246011408&isort=score&view=grid&w=Aluminum%20Polishing%20Kit&rk=1
You can polish it, it is very hard work and, worst of all, it doesn't stay polished you have to keep cleaning it obsessively because as soon as you leave it it starts to look dull.
So yes you can, but you shouldn't bother.
If you have money to burn you might consider having it engraved too.
http://donblocksidge.weebly.com/gallery.html
It isn't polish, it is chroming. You could have to remove the heads to get the exteriors chromed. Would be a pretty labor intensive job, as well as expensive.
So can you do it? I wouldn't say YOU could, but you could do the work to remove the heads and ship them out to a chromer, and have them do it. (Very few mechanics/chop shop guys do their own chroming, they send it to a company that does it.)
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