If I polish my banshee cylinders and the one side case, what will the shine be like?? Will it be like chrome??, like brand new alum. wheels?? Like a Cool Head?????????

I need to know because i dont know if i want to or not.

Help me out alittle

 

Be warned that polishing takes a lot of time and effort. It also is dangerous, because once you start its hard to stop.

If done properly, the shine will be about like a brand new set of aluminum wheels. I have seen some really spectacular polishing that looks close to chrome but can still be distinguished. A shine like that is hard to come by. To properly polish cylinders you have to grind of all the rough exterior, then course polish, the fine polish. On a Banshee that will take a very long time to do right.

Dont get me wrong, I love the look of my polished motor, but it is a lot of work to keep it looking good.

 

How many hours would you say of work for me?

And also once it is polished do i have to take the motor out of my frame every time i want to polish it with wax?? you said there was alot of work to keeping it shiny and stuff??

 

It took me around 5 or 6 hours (estimate) to polish just the cylinder on my Honda. I dont have to take the motor out of the frame to touch up polishes, once you get it polished you can use a aluminum polish (like you would use on aluminum wheels) to get the shine back. Basically all you have to do is get the oxidation out.

Every time you wash your quad, expect to spend an hour or two polishing all your extra parts. I have both side cases polished and the cylinder, plus some other various parts.

It does look good when its all shiny though, just a matter of how much you value the looks.

 

And 1 more question...

I just had the top-end rebuilt a few months ago... so what I plan on doing is just taking the motor out of the frame and polishing what I can. I think I can get most of it, don't you? I dont want to rip it all down again so soon and early. And I also don't want to wait till it needs to be taken apart because that won't be for awhile and by then I doubt I will have the time to polish it, since I am 17 now.

 

That will probably be pretty tough to do without dissambeling the motor. What I uses is a 1/2 hp motor mounted on a bench with polishing wheels on it. I dont know what you plan on using, but I had no luck with drillbit attachments, so I would have to hold my entire motor up to the wheel for extended periods of time. That's not easy to do.

You would get much better results taking it apart, but you can probably get it done that way.

Good luck.

 

i was told that when you remove the black paint from the cyclinder it makes it run hotter.the paint draws the heat out of the motor.the hotter the motor runs the less power you have.

 

It's a pain!
I'm doing it for my right side case...aaargh, it takes soooo much time! You won't get to something clean only with sandpaper. I have the magical Dremel tool, and already "wasted" 3 brushes...Mine doesn't look like chrome, but you get it to look like chrome (but it will take you forever). I'm gonna spray 100 layers of enamel, and put it back on...looks a bit strange (not perfectly shiny), but I like it...a lot!
But if I had known it was so long, I wouldn't have started.

 

Keep in mind that those pretty polished aluminum rims you see on cars are clearcoated. I polished many parts on my hotrod, and like everyone is telling you, it's a pain. You really have to stay on top of it to keep it looking good.
For finned things, like on a motorcycle motor, I like shooting it with wrinkle-finish paint (color matched to the bike), then sand the surface of the fins with fine sandpaper, then finer sandpaper, and work your way to, like, 1500 grit. Then come back, and polish the heck out of the surface of the fins.
This looks cool, because you have the sparkle of polished aluminum, but you don't have to keep re-polishing in between every fin, every time.
Just an idea.

 

Now I doubt I'm going to bother doing it. Not that it would take hardwork, because I live in PA and we get everykind kind of weather there is. So I'm sure I would have to spend alot of time after each ride cleaning and polishing it off, and that would be time I don't have, I spend about 2hrs everytime I ride it cleaning it, if you believe me I even scrub the treads of the tires with a strong brush so they look clean like the sidewalls, it comes out so rad looking but would it be worth spending another 1hr on the motor, equaling 3hrs total in my backyard cleaning my quad!! If I lived in the dunes, that would be a different story, I would try to have my frame chromed. But I'm stuck in PA, which I do like for riding quads.