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I have found that I can clean aluminum castings using the heavy duty etching wheel cleaner and a pressure washer.

If you have highlighted logos like a COBRA lettering, etc, they can be polished up using a 220 wet grit paper by hand or a little electric palm sander.

Caked on deposits can be removed with oven cleaner. You let it dry and then just peel it off.

Of course you can media blast them as well with a medium glass bead but personally I like the wheel cleaner. The blasting usually removes the natural luster that they have when the castings are removed from the molds.

Edelbrock products are media blasted before maching with a blended media. I think they use sn unusual blend to get the shot peened look, like iron shot but I can't get the formula quite right to duplicate it.


Wear safety goggles for your eyes since these cleaners use an acid to etch with and let them dry off fully and you will see how they return the natural luster to the aluminum without blasting.