Looks like I need to learn how to work a camera too.
Looks good,throw some polish on it if you haven't
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Thanks. I think that looks better than buying the ones from RKSport that are chrome.
I haven't Polished it yet. I should be putting it back on tommarow.
I didn't know powder coating was so easy. Took maybe half a minute to spray it then stuck it in the oven.
Color matches the car pretty well.
too much work for me lol.... looks good
how do u powder coat? i want to do the same thing to my cover but dont know how......and how did you clean it and get it prepped to do?
get some mothers metal polish and you will @!#$ your pants...take your time and really work on it and it will look beautiful. nice looking start btw.
you did that your sefl? if so, very nice!
when PCing, if you are planning on polishing parts (such as the rips) i heard the best idea is to spray it all (going light on the parts to be polished) and then wipe off the parts the areas to be poslished. itll make sanding them eaiser and you wont have to worry about a bad tape job
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Well my dad's friend did it but if they would have let me do it I think I could have. It took him maybe 5 passes with the gun to cover it. He only got zapped once, not sure why he was touching it but it was funny.
It was a lot of work getting it ready, Sand blasted that bubbling stuff from GM off, then sanded it for a few hours until it was shining. The killed my fingers. Used maybe 15 sheets of 60 the anout the same of 80 and some 120, finished it with some 1000 I think. The wire wheel was a bad Idea, it got the stuff off but it pitted the metal so I had to sand more. Sanding sucked but I think it paid off.
After we pulled the tape off my dad's friend said the we might have been able just to spray the whole thing then wipe off the letters careful then bake it. It turned out pretty good though.
Thinking about powder coating my quad 4 mani but I would rather sell it and I don't think someone would want a red powder coat one unless their car is red.
so u just drive without an IDI cover til you get it done and its dry?
Car was is still in storage, but if you worked fast you could maybe do it in a day.
The powder coating its self takes maybe 30 minutes, Spray and bake for 20 minutes. Might want to let it cool for a little while before you put the coil back on. The sanding took about 3 days, but that was just doing it for a few hours at a time. It would have been quicker if we sand blasted it a bit better and if I found the wire wheel sooner. Taping isn't to fun either, I would recamend the 1/4 inch and probably in tape to tape it off.
1/8 wasn't quite wide enough for the ridges and the 1/4 was hard on the letters. Inch to cover the the letters and and just get around them instead of trying to cut the tape to fit it.
Eastwood's is who I used.
that looks really good installed
could u do a quick write up on how you did it? thanks for the tips so far, but i am still wondering:
what temperature did you bake it?
what kind of paint did you use? high heat in a spray can from autozone/pepboys?
thanks for all the info
ive painted a few of these... (i never powder coated em)
my first attempt looked like this
the pressure washer took the paint up quick as i didnt use any sort of clear on it. Also i sucked at taping...
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The one i have now... i rattle-canned the fade and had it cleared with ChromaClear....
The pic doesn't do it justice, both it and the HO manifold are covered in ice (FLAKE).
Here is the tape I used.
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=21311&itemType=PRODUCT
Heres the paint, the 8 oz is you need. I still had over half left I think.
http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=69&itemType=PRODUCT
It will tell you on the bottle how hot to do it. It was 400 for the paint I used.
You probably could use high heat paint like what comes in the cheap caliper paint kits but I don't think it would look as good.
With powder coating the most important thing is to clean the metal off all the way or the powder wont stick to it. If you can use a sand blaster it will make it a lot easier. Then just sand it till it it shining, the sand blaster dulls it down. then tape away or try spraying the whole thing and wiping off the parts you don't want panted. I don't know how well it would work to wipe off the parts you dont want panted though. It is just dust on it and if you walk to fast to the oven it could come off. So if you are wiping it and bump it you could mess it up. After it is painted just bake at 400 for 20 minutes and the paint flows out nice and glossy.
Sorry if there are some typing errors, It is early.
I got around to doing an oil change and bought some of that mother's polish. Looks a LOT better, shinned the fuel rail up too. It might have been the lighting but it looks a lot shinier.
Before the polish.
After
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