powder coat pics

[blk\blk90]

whaddya think?





oops? Is this bad?







Does any one who powder coated theirs have a way to paint the TB and secondary assembaly? I can't get the blades out but I have cleaned em pretty good.

 

[DDakRT]

Looks great, but did you not tape anything off?

And yes, you'll need to sand down ALL the grounding points.

 

[PROPHET]

Yeah the parts should have been tapped up where you didn't want powdercoat, I'm surprised the powdercoater didn't think of it.

Now you have alot of material to remove and you need to be careful so that it doesn't start to peel on the parts that need to be shown.

 

[caseywan]

How much does it usually cost to that done?

 

[blk\blk90]

This cost $102 after tax and everything. I don't know why he didn't tape the gasket surfaces off. He taped all the bolts and plugged the holes.

 

[PROPHET]

That's pretty cheap for as many parts got coated and all the extra coating where you didn't want it.

This should look sweet when you have everything installed , I can't wait for pics.

 

[Hack]

Very nice Beau! You are going to have to change your forum name to blk/blk/blk90!

 

[iselltonsofthings]

blk\blk90, the powder coating looks really good.

I don't want to sound rude, but maybe you should have took a peek at my website before sending the parts to your powder coater.

www.keystonepowdercoating.com

Since 99% of the powder coating I perform is SHO parts, I'm familiar with what needs masked off. This saves countless hours of time for the customer that has to figure out a way to remove the baked on powder from the areas that weren't supposed to get coated.

You will need to remove the powder from the flat area where the DIS module sits. As for the powder on the gasket surfaces, as long as everything is smooth, you shouldn't have any problems.

Just make sure the DIS is properly grounded to bare aluminum or you will have ignition problems once you install everything and go to fire up your car.

Sincerely, Scott

 

[DDakRT]

^^^It's not just the DIS, like I said, ALL grounds MUST be sanded down if you want your car to run more than a week.

 

[blk\blk90]

Well, I think I'm royally screwed. Upon closer inspection of all the PCing I had done I found out that the only thing that powder DIDN'T get on was the screws on the tanks and 1(yes one) screw on the TB side. It's in the DIS screw holes, on the plug well seals, in the oil cap holder, some in the tanks and under the valve covers and in the brcket holders(all of them). AM I completley jacked?
I guess $102 was to good to be true.

 

[DDakRT]

I dunno if it's totally junk, but it's not going to be easy... The DIS is grounded by the screws, then the crossover tube is grounded to the 2 bolts that's connect to the tanks. Then the tank is grounded by the top left bracket, etc.

When I got mine done I personally taped off everything I didn't want powdered, took me a while but it's the right way to do it. Most shops don't even want to bother with masking stuff anyway.

BTW it cost me $175 Canadian, so a little less than $130 American. That's for everything on the manifold and in 2 colours.

 

[SHOfun 93]

All is not lost....

The areas that need to be free of powdercoat can easliy be ground off with a dremel or other appropriate grinding mechanism to get your metal to metal contact back to ensure a good ground. I hve owned 2 different powdercoated intakes and had to do both of them that way.

 

[SHOguy 92]

I dunno if it's totally junk, but it's not going to be easy... The DIS is grounded by the screws, then the crossover tube is grounded to the 2 bolts that's connect to the tanks. Then the tank is grounded by the top left bracket, etc.

When I got mine done I personally taped off everything I didn't want powdered, took me a while but it's the right way to do it. Most shops don't even want to bother with masking stuff anyway.

BTW it cost me $175 Canadian, so a little less than $130 American. That's for everything on the manifold and in 2 colours.

You just got your manifold done for that much, or valve covers and brackets too?

 

[SHOguy 92]

The areas that need to be free of powdercoat can easliy be ground off with a dremel or other appropriate grinding mechanism to get your metal to metal contact back to ensure a good ground. I hve owned 2 different powdercoated intakes and had to do both of them that way.

I'd think a wire brush wheel on the end of a drill would do the trick too. Also those areas pc'ed in bolt holes obviously are narrowed down because stuff is in there filling it up. Screw the bolts in and then take them out, I'm willing to bet they will remove lots of the powder coating

 

[SHOfun 93]

That's true Josh, I STILL get powdercoat coming out of my intake mounting holes when I back out the bracket bolts....

 

[DDakRT]

You just got your manifold done for that much, or valve covers and brackets too?

Just everything on the manifold minus the IAB. I'm going to get my valve covers done soon.

My wheels were done for less than $90 American too.

 

[LateNightCustom]

Why didnt they mask anything.

 

[SinisterSHO]

You know, I'm always baffled at how people find threads that are this old. Seriously blown away that people find these.

 

[SHOtimer]

You know, I'm always baffled at how people find threads that are this old. Seriously blown away that people find these.

Me too. :laugh_ti:

Doug

 

[LeddZepp8687]

Jesus, this must have been 5 pages back in the search results.