yeah, thanks for the nice replys guys.
erm, this chap is a 1 man polishing machine. hes got a factory with about 5 big machines in all for different purposes, he normally does hand rails, and bits for minis, whole engines etc. but he offers a pop in for a coffee on a saturday for car people, you sit around or watch a movie in ya car, while he just leans the plenum on a belt driven polisher, with various grades of grit. Its not perfect, he didnt do in the holes as far as he said he could, but i think spending 4 hours on something for 40 quid is very good. he wasnt happy that the throttle body looked a bit rough, so he just worked on that for 10 minutes.
The holes in the plenum are something i can do though with a dremell and their polishing end. seems to be tidying those up with nicely.
hopefully some people around notts will go to him as hes a sound chap.
oh, and the 'x' at the end of my first post was my gf, i was playing on the xbox and reading out what for her to write. it was her addition.