Re: Extrude hone????

[Hulda Jowett <hjowett@nasc.mass.edu>]

A substitue for Extrude hone? Sure.... I was looking for a (faster) way 
to smooth manifolds, ports, and such after porting work. I'd been 
smoothing the outside with glassbead for  a better apearance, so why not 
the inside? Grab a sand blasting gun ($40 at sears, ofcourse you need a 
compressor, take your choice $250 and up for somthing decent) and a bag of 
glassbead (about $10/ 100lbs) and go to work! Stick the nozzle in the 
port you desire to be smoothed and pull trigger... it can take awhile 
depending on what abrasive medium you're useing. Should probably start 
with somthing more abrasive than glassbead now that I've thought about it 
for a bit. Don't forget to mask areas (such as valve guides, bolt holes) 
where you don't want material removed from. Clean well, use brushes, high 
pressure water flushes these parts well too...

Enjoy!

Brian
93 VR6 Corrado 3.0l 
Honed from t-body to header