polishing an intake?

[Dad's72]

Originally Posted by mike16

lots of information out there on polishing aluminium, including video of intakes being polished by edelbrock employees.... . one rule that is universal is to wear some sort of eye and resperatory protection.

A buddy of mine has a small sand blaster and blasted it smooth for me to get all the stains off and grime. Came out smooth. I taped it off with gorilla tape and it help up to it. Then a coat of high temp primer and high temp aluminum color. Looks dang good. To me anyway.
First pic is after the sand blasting which was a night and day change from all the dark stains in the aluminum. Second is after a coat of the high temp paint. It looks way better in person. My goal was to only prolong the staining and grime that builds up on the rough texture.