Thought I would share in my project. I picked up a DE-k valve cover and will probably add the 2001 AE Cover.

I used a dremel with the abrasive finishing sanding bit. With Mother's Mag & Aluminum Polish. This took me about 3 hours to do.

 

Try some wet/dry sand paper made by 3M. They sell in alot of the auto parts stores. Start off with like 400, then go to 600, then 800, then 1000, then 1500, then 2000, then use the buffer with a polish on your Dremel. Really not much work and it comes out AMAZING

-matt

 

Looks great! I do think you could probably get it shinier if you wanted to invest the time. matty's suggestion sounds about right.

 

Yea, I was thinking it could be shinnier but I can live with this. Only took me 3 hours to do with no sore arm.

 

It's not that big a deal to do by hand.

I took about 2.5 hours from removing and reinstalling the sparkplug cover, coil packs and VC + the wetsanding of course.

The funny thing is by the time you get in the 800 grit area you are actually sanding really light but the results gradually show. It looks like you stopped around 600-800 grit.

 

Seems like too much work for the out come. I used some 200 grit or some crap and finished it off with never dull. Took me 20 minutes if that.

 

200 grit is rough as hell!

 

This is what I used.
http://www.dremel.com/en-us/attachme...=66429&I=69883

The light brown one.