Chuck you are on the right track. All the guys (Don Dorfman, Jerry MacNeish, John the Vette injection guy in PA)that have done this in the past and do it now seem to get the same results. Dorfman started it and called it reskinning. I've had good results by cleaning the manifold really good then bead blasting it with fresh medium glass beads.After this go over it lightly with 000 steel wool. Then clean it with brake clean to get rid of all the steel wool. This burnishes it slightly and puts that nice "as cast" finish on the part. Flying "A" has a ceramic coating business next door now and Jerry Janing and I were talking about trying a manifold in their vibratory polisher to see what it would do. That manifold Chuck did looks really good and if a Wheelabrator did it maybe that is the way to go. I have often thought that the highly secret "reskinning" process was a little bit of bullshit to keep us from trying this on our own. Now as to the Edelbrock, they beadblast all their freshly cast intakes and then do the machining. To duplicate that finish you must really clean the crap out of the part and then blast it with new beads. The only drawback to this type of finish is it stains really badly and is hard to clean. If we try the vibratory polisher and it works I'll let you know. Frank
