Powdercoating the VC and Intake, need color advice.

[jt93sho]

As fate would have it my 93 ATX just throw a code for intake flow, meaning I will more than likely have to clean the intake. While I was at the local "pull a part" monday they had just gotten in a 94 3.2 that i robbed the D4u1 ecu out of. Now that i need to remove my intake and clean it I might as well do my upper 60k and was debating sending out the intake and valve covers off the Pull a part motor to get them powder coated locally. My work has a shop next door that cuts me great deals (just paid 100 to get my 99 wheels blasted and coated)

My question regards color combinations. I have that darn sage green that ever dreaded atx 2nd gen sho seems to be. I was debating all black with maybe the end tanks/runners dark green. I'd love to hear other peoples opinions and maybe see some other engine bays.

 

[intimdatr]

I always like the graphite gray colors. Some just recently put up a really good example of it. Also going all back sounds cool but it just washes out in the engine bay and sorta kills off the Coolest part of our tauri. But to each his own.

 

[quikSHOilver]

Check out eastwood.com, they got plenty variety of pc colors. I agree with Intimidator on what he said on graphite color, I would lean on that color shade for any green exterior. Good luck.

 

[rubydist]

your code is most likely for "insufficient egr flow" which almost always has nothing to do with the intake but rather the little sensor lines to the device that senses the egr flow.

 

[jt93sho]

i just checked those lines when I replaced the DPFE last week (unrelated even) and they seemed to be ok. I didnt find any visible splits on them. What should I look for in regards to the insufficient flow code?

 

[Off Road SHO]

more than likely the EGR "nostrils" and their feed tube are coked up with carbon. There are removable plugs that when removed, allow you to shoot Berryman's B-12 or any intake/carb cleaner up into the passageways.

If you remove the throttle body, the nostrils are visible on the bottom of the intake, right at the front/rear split. Directly below those two nostrils, on the underside is one of the plugs. The other is under where the EGR valve bolts to the intake.

Tom

 

[rubydist]

where I have seen them get plugged up is the two small steel lines that come off the steel tubing that runs from the egr valve to the intake manifold. one of those has a small orifice in it and the other does not, and the dpfe imputes the flow rate from the pressure differential resulting in those two small tubes. if they are plugged up, the dpfe does not detect enough pressure difference, therefore it concludes there is insufficient egr flow even though typically the flow is fine, just the detection is messed up.

 

[jt93sho]

more than likely the EGR "nostrils" and their feed tube are coked up with carbon. There are removable plugs that when removed, allow you to shoot Berryman's B-12 or any intake/carb cleaner up into the passageways.

If you remove the throttle body, the nostrils are visible on the bottom of the intake, right at the front/rear split. Directly below those two nostrils, on the underside is one of the plugs. The other is under where the EGR valve bolts to the intake.

Tom

spot on! :thankyou: Pulled the throttle body and noticed them right away. After a few cans of top end cleaner and using some mechanics wire to clean them out I am happy to report the code is gone! And as an added bonus my car is just under a half tank of gas at 230 miles, usually im dead empty by 300.

Im still looking to powdercoat these parts, does anybody have pictures of the dark grey coated SHO's?