painted my intake
10-28-2007, 10:31 PM
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painted my intake
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...
10-28-2007, 11:30 PM
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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...
10-29-2007, 09:05 AM
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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. 
10-29-2007, 06:15 PM
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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.
We're also painting the valve covers gloss black.
10-29-2007, 07:44 PM
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10-29-2007, 08:19 PM
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