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Originally Posted by NotoriouSH
The other option is for those of you who want to polish the valve cover. Remove the VC, strip it with the aircraft stuff (it's amazing), then clean it really well and dry it thoroughly. After that, use really fine grit sandpaper and wetsand it. I never took the time to get it chrome-like, but I did get a nice silvery/titanium look in about 30 minutes. If you wetsand all the imperfections out and then use a metal polishing compound (mother's, meguirs) with a high speed buffer it will look chrome after a couple hours work.
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A couple hours? For a mirror finish? You're dreaming.
Wetsanded can be done properly by hand in a few hours. You could spend all day with mothers, it's not going to help much. It will look something like this.
The non-pro will need SEVERAL more hours of VERY tedious work to get it to REALLY shine. Same valve cover, after hitting it with a high speed professional buffer with tripoli and white rouge compounds:
