Newest Powder Coating

[garycrist]

My latest coatings on my engine pieces.

Black Stardust on BBK 70mm egr spacer.





Upper manifold. Prep time pays off in shine!





I love the candy red so much that a lot of the brackets and engine pieces
will be red.







I think while I have the engine out, I'll do the alternator, air pump and valve covers in red candy too.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

are you doing these yourself? (at home) or is this professionally done?

I thought about buying the stuff to do it at home several times but just haven't pulled the trigger yet. I don't have a lot of stuff that I would want to powder but I think it would be cool to have just incase I did wan't something small done instead of having to run it down to Burleson or GP

[franks]

are you doing these yourself? (at home) or is this professionally done?

I thought about buying the stuff to do it at home several times but just haven't pulled the trigger yet. I don't have a lot of stuff that I would want to powder but I think it would be cool to have just incase I did wan't something small done instead of having to run it down to Burleson or GP

it works fine if you have a spare oven. Just follow instructions

[big_tiger]

Did you get any out gasing on the intake manifold? How much did you pre heat the intake to?

[projectPONY]

What all is involved in the prepping of items to be coated? I've been told by several people in the business that all it takes is a glass bead blast and others say to sand the items smooth. Which is it?

[holeshot]

Looks really good !
Nice job !

[garycrist]

Yes everything is done @ home. I got an oven delivered to the house FREE!. A $59 H/F gun
and paint from Eastman (boy do they spam).

Manifold was new but, I baked it @ 450 for 2 hours and re-blasted it w/ glass beads.
The hard part is getting stuff smooth. on the upper I used sand paper from 80-220 grit.
After I coated it the first time, it had a lot of "orange peel" caused from the rough casting and the coating I chose. I sanded and re-shot the lower in all the places one can see once installed.

The lower manifold was shot with chrome 1st. ans red last.

Thank you all!

[beefed88]

what do you use to cover the sections you dont want powder coated?

[RuStYpNuS]

what do you use to cover the sections you dont want powder coated?

tape it off then spray the powder remove the paint and bake....right?

[beefed88]

I was just wondering because I see high temp tape and silicone plugs for powder coating. Does it run at all when it bakes?

[garycrist]

I have been using blue painter's tape. The downer is if you touch anything while removing the tape so, I leave a "tag" end to help. I have used silver A/C tape but, it is difficult to remove after baking.