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Polishing your bananas

vsv8berlinawag

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Thanks. The only disappointing thing is the porosity of the casting. On top of the curves of the bananas there are these tiny holes. Nothing chronic but I figure that if I try to get them out I could expose even more! Reckon if i did yours I'd run out of skin on my fingers. It's a bit like a 1:1 ratio i.e. 1mm off the manifold, 1mm off skin comes off as well :yeah:
 

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Its starting to look nice well done and you get the satisfaction of knowing you did it yourself.
 

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top job there. looks good, show us when its back in the car
 

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I'm almost getting a hard on....:yeah:

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Thanks, it looks almost like a GM promo shot of their up and coming 5 litre fuel injected V8 (sorry too many beers !). At approx 12 hours per inlet manifold they wouldn't be selling very many :p
 

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Thanks, it looks almost like a GM promo shot of their up and coming 5 litre fuel injected V8 (sorry too many beers !). At approx 12 hours per inlet manifold they wouldn't be selling very many :p

lol true... BTW Whats "to many beers"? never heard of that:p
 

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I'm almost getting a hard on....:yeah:

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Turned out nice Mate excellent work,its Given me a little motivation might grab a 2nd handy & do a little bit between jobs.
 

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Thanks man, must admit with just a bunch of basic tools …..

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it came out pretty good. As I said before pity about the porosity of the casting, but the overall effect is what I was after.

Cheers
Ron
 

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that looks nuts man, makes me want to do it to mine. How many days/hours did it take you to do? wouldnt mind giving this a crack when I have spair time.
 
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