rudebwoy

how is this done? I am in Germany and I want to coat my turbo manifold. no access to a shop that can do it, and I dont want to send it to the states to get it done.

BoosTedZSix

well first of all you dont powder coat your manifold. You would want to have it ceramic coated.

ju-on

So my wrinkle black one has a crack where these things always crack, and was starting to leak oil in it. So I took it off and it's being stripped. But I had a spare Hyundai one laying around that I'm putting on.

Now I've been trying to figure out how to make a color to match the black cherry color of my car. They don't make a color that matches it. So I took a transparent red, and applied it over a gloss black base coat. Typically you put transparents over a white/silver/chrome base coat, and that gives it the "candy" look. On all the forms I'm on, no one had posted pics of a transparent over a gloss black base. So here are my results. This valve cover was in horrible condition. So bad I was wondering if it'd even turn out since there was so much crud just caked on it, even after 2 hours of prep. But I'll let you be the judge, I think it turned out amazing.

When looking at it in just plain lighting, and straight on, it looks just like gloss black(apparent in pic1), but once I turn on the flash, or apply direct light, you see the maroon come out. I'd say I matched the car color very well!

http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...3&d=1174654429
http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...4&d=1174654429
http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...5&d=1174654488

ju-on

Did my new intake and upper intercooler pipe this weekend in smoke chrome, followed by a coat of clear coat.

http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...2&d=1186259758
http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...4&d=1186259771
http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...0&d=1186259695
http://dsmstyle.com/forums/attachmen...3&d=1186259758

ju-on

Thanks, I'll take the credit for the coating, but I can't take credit for those welds

ju-on

I ended up sponsoring MAPerformance's (local shop) 4G64 powered FD by doing their powder coating. Kind of a bad picture.

ju-on

Decided to do my Galant's VC tonight.

Here it is cleaned and ready to go


Here it is fresh outta the oven


Here it is on the car. Sorry it's kinda dark outside
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Toysrme

The crinkle finishes are great for covering imperfections & such but now your newly powder coated VC looks perminantely dirty as ----. Not my cup of tea.

ju-on

Yes, the textured stuff definately helps hide imperfections! And yup some people may not like it, different strokes for different folks I suppose.

Here's something I did an hour ago:

Before:


After:

HiProfile

Then I fail to see why this crap is up here? HMT is all about sharing info, not pimping pictures of your top-secret work on a pile of DSM.