# Where to find stuff for Porting and Polishing: Carbide, Flapper, etc
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015
**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [November 3, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015 "2006-11-03T09:27:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@disque71](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/disque71)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/1 "2006-11-03T09:27:35Z")
Looking todo a weekend project. Anyone buy these materials for p&p locally?
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### Author:  [@bgblockelcamino](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bgblockelcamino)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/2 "2006-11-03T11:11:49Z")
check a welding store. they have a lot of the metal remval tools
aluminum is funny to work with so make sure you get the right bits for it.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/3 "2006-11-03T12:15:00Z")
summit got a decent kit
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### Author:  [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/4 "2006-11-03T17:40:05Z")
cylinder head abrasives, or CHA. Thats where I get my stuff from.
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### Author:  [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2006, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/5 "2006-11-04T10:22:39Z")
anything you do aluminum has to be low speed
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### Author:  [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2006, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/6 "2006-11-04T12:38:38Z")
Do not spin an aluminum carbide a low speed!
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### Author:  [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/7 "2006-11-04T13:56:52Z")
no not for cutting, for polishing lol
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### Author:  [@disque71](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/disque71)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/8 "2006-11-06T13:18:16Z")
any well liked welding stores locally?
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### Author:  [@FourGee6Tee3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FourGee6Tee3)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/9 "2006-11-07T21:52:06Z")
I wouldnt do much more then clean up the exhaust ports, without a way to measure what your doing, you could be just wasting your time on the intake.
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### Author:  [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/10 "2006-11-07T23:00:30Z")
oh, do not polish at low speeds either.
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### Author:  [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/11 "2006-11-08T15:28:18Z")
> [@On another topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/25676/10):
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> oh, do not polish at low speeds either.
what are you talking about anyways? you can’t polish aluminum at high speeds you’ll burn and etch it
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### Author:  [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/12 "2006-11-08T21:31:55Z")
Well, I guess you can go too fast. I go as fast as I can without the rouge slinging right off. Every time I go slower is when it etches for me. You need the heat to get the metal to smooth over itself.
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### Author:  [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/13 "2006-11-09T15:43:38Z")
Hmmm, I’ve done stuff by hand before that came out great, I never thought you could go too slow, it just takes forever when you do it like that
heres a t-stat housing I did by hand, and my stock tips were done the same way.
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### Author:  [@Dominator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dominator)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/14 "2006-11-09T20:57:02Z")
I did some stuff by hand alone a while ago. It came out really well. Once you use a wheel and get some heat into it the finished product is alot better.
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### Author:  [@Sinner6.0L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sinner6.0L)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2006, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/where-to-find-stuff-for-porting-and-polishing-carbide-flapper-etc/186015/15 "2006-11-11T10:46:16Z")
hmmm, I’ll have to look into it further