Painting the intake

[38SHO]

so what do you think of the new intake paint scheme? its a little different, but I like that.... and the gold color really looks badass with its texture

I'm also going to paint the valve covers the gold color

 

[Kens1992mtxSHO]

Nice. I like it. You should do the lettering on the surge tanks in Black or in the same gold as the runners.

 

[St Louis SHO]

You stole that idea from Platoribs!!!

I kinda like the gold, because noone uses it. It seems to fit very well with any color.

- James

 

[38SHO]

I'm even thinking of doing my wheels in gold.... who knows


I really like gold accents in that tone.. not the bright ass shiney gold plating type shit...
kinda has a early 2000's JDM type style to it


whos platoribs? he got any pics of his intake? damn I thought this was a first!


in all honesty, it took me about 2.5 seconds to figure out this paint scheme standing at Lowe's looking at a lot of paint, I was gonna try some kind of copper vein type shit on the runners, and who knows on the surge tanks but they didn't have the paint I was looking for.... so this scheme was my 3rd alternate

before this I was doing a grey style that looked ok with the black secondaries/couplers... but this really does look nicer, thanks to PlastiKote for changing the paint colors of the 202 universal grey...... I ran out of one can, bought another and it was like 4 shades darker.... I like this silver/gold look A LOT better tho....... the gold is killer!

 

[St Louis SHO]

Try searching through the show your painted intake thread (if it's still around) He has black tanks, gold runners.

If I werent so lazy right now I could go take a pic, as its sitting here at the house...

 

[38SHO]

thats ok, you enjoy your laziness......

I'm so damn lazy tonight I can barely walk outside to go smoke a cigarette, worked on like 10 cars today, so many jobs I forgot what all I did

 

[SHO.fast]

looks good man

i need to paint my intake soon

but i need to get it ported first

 

[PROPHET]

Looks awesome.

 

[randy'sho]

Very nice!

 

[SHOtime2511]

looks good Todd.

 

[bubba]

Looks good man, I would do the letters in gold to as stated too.

 

[Eric VerValin]

... FYI when I painted mine.. I just sprayed some into a little cup to do the letters... If you are careful even if you get a little outside, you can wipe it off easily before it dries.

Or another place or thing you could do ... is go to a hobby shop.. they have plenty of different colors, and probally have a nice gold to match. Oh yea.. make sure it is an Enamel too... there are 2 kinds...

 

[Toolman]

What is the paint, I like it.

 

[38SHO]

Rustoleum Hammered finish

in a spray can, they got it in quart cans and stuff too

I love the texture it puts out, finishes 10x better then regular spray paint

 

[Rubix]

I really like it man I've been thinking about doing some gold or tan with green on my intake.

Oh, and here's Platoribs', you aren' copyin'm straight up

 

[38SHO]

yeah thats a different kind of gold then mine, his is more like a jewlery gold type finish

looks good tho, and I like his plastic panel on the core support

 

[SeanMc]

Looks pretty ***.


*** means happy .

 

[Rubix]

Have you assembled this yet?

 

[SHObill]

LOOKS GREAT!!
I do like the gold! & the diff finish! I hope it holds up well. Maybe that Hammered stuff will be stronger than the Duplicolor truck paint I used on a set of VC's. Looked good for 6 months, but now its 'crazed' a bit & scratched & chipped. Just doesn't hold up to my cleaning!
Mmmm.... I've got a mocha int & that may look good. I have a set of polished VC's so was gunna do polished snakes too but that may be too much work.