So I decided to paint my intake, since it's off for the cam swap. I also have bead blasted the heads as well as damn near everything else I can. With my new headers, it should look AWESOME compared to what it was. More pics as the parts get cleaned and everything gets put back together...

 

Nice job. I am finishing up painting my LS1 intake.... I just hope not too much of a PITA to keep clean!

Post up pics after the install!

 

What color are you painting it?

 

Silver. Not body color, but close. Actually rim silver. Nice metallic, and a little darker. I will post pics soon. This is my second smoothed and painted LS1 intake, and this is mine, so I paid attention. I filled in the front part (where EGR went...). Probably have 6 hours into it plus supplies...

 

Damn....you better post some pictures soon. On that one, I spent about 30 minutes bead blasting it, then primer, then that first coat of paint.

 

Here is a teaser. The first one I did.... Body matching color. You can see the EGR delete plug. On mine, I filled this and smoothed it level.....

 

You're a brave man. A white intake manifold...

 

Chris, sand the paint off of the top of the ribs on the intake manifold. Then clear over everything after you polish the ribs up. Make sure you use a good amount of rubbing alcohol so the clearcoat sticks on the ribs though. Think of how the LT4 intake looks with the silver ribs. It looks much cooler than the solid color.

 

Rickjames, that's going to look really good in your 30th Anni

 

That white will most likely yellow.

The LT1 would look great with polished ridges.

 

I don't care. The white isn't my car, and I told her not to, so whatever.

Mine is silver. It should stay fine for the 2000 miles a year at most I drive it....

 

Waaaay ahead of ya We're also painting the valve covers gloss black.

 

i dont think you will have a hard time finding that in your engine bay, looks good

 

It's gonna look 50x better than before with everything new and clean. thanks though!

 

Did you try just cleaning them up really well first? I know after I cleaned mine up they looked damn nice.