I found a powder coating place close by my house with reasonable rates. I am going to see how many parts I can restore using this process. This is what a $30 investment looks like. I also did a panhard brace on my Camaro for $20. I am thinking cam cover, intake manifold, strut tower brace... Heck, I may have them do my rims in a few years. Several parts on the Camaro are going to go eventually as well.
Stock colors and clean looking - perfect.
Looks nice. Nice, indeed.
Looks great! and it will hold up great.
I've got an Eastwood kit, and did everything on my Belvedere that would fit in the old (no longer used for cooking food) kitchen oven. I even did the carburetor in black, and all the linkage in chrome, plus the intake and many other parts on my old Camino, and the Chevy Rallies on my trailer, and still need to do some little trim pieces for my staircase here at the house, and several other things... PC always gets my vote... Great choice!
Nice out come for sure!!!!!
Looks really sharp, Paul. Did they clean the parts up first with a bead blaster or anything, or did you do the prep work on them?
I'd love to have several parts done on my 86.
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Daryl-
The pan was in pretty rough shape. I pulled it from u pick it for $15. It was totally covered with slime. I took it to a quarter car wash and blasted it off and it revealed a little bit of rust. I took it to the coating guys and they said they would blast it an see. There was one whole clean through, and the rest is fine. They patched it as part of the $30 charge. it is coated inside and out. I hate to put oil in it...
I just finished taking my back swaybar setup off of the Camaro to drop off there tomorrow. I was thinking of dropping off the Sunbird strut tower brace and cam cover as well. I was thinking black for the brace and either red (like the 2.0) or Silver for the am cover. I should do something flashier, but I like the lean stock look.
What do you think?
Paul, I dig your car's clean stock look. If the black turns out clean & glossy like your pan did, I'd stick with that personally.
Not a bad deal on the price for what they did. I'll have to check around locally to see if I can get anything close to that. I'd like to do my oil pan, suspension parts & some parts on my '98 Cobra as well just to clean the underhood area up.
Thanks for the inspriation!
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". it is coated inside and out. I hate to put oil in it..."
They powder coated it on the inside?
Yes, in and out. I thought it was odd also, but they said that is their standard process.
i guess as long as it has a good bond to the inside and it wont chip it will work. i think im going to try this ( i powder coat).
your oil pan looks flawless. i love it.
