Some inspiration for you.

[Rage Over]

Here you go:


https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/79.jpg


Okay, get cleaning and polishing lads! You may get done by the end of the year! :D

p.s. no, sadly that is not my engine... Although I did polish my AC lines! Does that count? :p

[Keithy P38]

Bugger me! I bet that's been in a tumbler, not hand polished!

[poleonpom]

Not a real power plant until it has tasted mud!

[Hoges]

Very nice job indeed! Now what to do with it:eek::p

[FANTOM P38]

Mmmmmm! Now that would look nice in the FANTOM. wanna swap?

[Rage Over]

Sadly, that's really not mine. You can see another photo and the P38 it went in here:
V8Wizard - Range Rover P38 Rebuild
(http://www.v8wizard.com/photo_gallery/Range_Rover_P38_Rebuild.php)

Not a real power plant until it has tasted mud!
Indeed. This is what my P38 looks like at the moment. If I polished everything to that extent I wouldn't be able to bring myself to drive it properly as intended... ;) That's gloss black under there, to give you an idea of how much mud and dirt is on it, the actual shade of black is very close to that of the bullbar, only looking different because it's just fitted. Slowly changing that...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/51.jpg

Don't mind the little tyres, they're going as soon as they are worn (sadly another six months life I think - I don't think I'll ever say that about tyres again). :D

[poleonpom]

Looks like mine :-)

[mtb_gary]

So I wonder where Richard W resides? I would't mind seeing the finished result first hand. Although that project does date back to July 2010.

Gary

[p38arover]

That one is a bit cleaner than mine (below):

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/48.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/49.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/50.jpg

[TheTree]

Mmmmm shiny engines :p

[Toxic_Avenger]

I polished a cast aluminium intake manifold for a V6 once.
Never again.
Took about 120hrs, but turned out to an even better finish than this one (not my pic, as I don't have my images on this PC, and external hosted images have expired):

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2014/07/40.jpg

The job in the OP would have been massive. Especially with all those intake runners.

[TheTree]

Chris Crane, Mr V8 from RPI Engineering, drives a P38 himself :D

Steve