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Satin black powdercoated parts = way cool

trochoid

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They do. When Jon first told me that was his choice, I had doubts about it. After I did a few parts, I like the satin black, good choice. Even have a piece in my engine bay to go along with the smoke chrome and teal.

neektar

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That is ******* sexy. I'd want my rims polished and the inserts powered coated that satin black. Waaaaaaaaaay sexy though.






Gotta love the way those stock rims shine when you give them some attention.

Good luck.

diabolical1

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vipernicus42 ~
the one with the white mark is the left side. i just looked at mine (they're still wrapped) and my left side has a white mark, but the right side does not.

trochoid

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I've studied the + rims to see if that could be done. There is a special masking tape designed to hold up to the heat of the oven. It will not hold a sharp enough edge through the baking process, it tends to curl. To do 2 colors or a color and polish, it would double the price of the refinish.

The better route would be to polish, mask off the black area and clearcoat, then reverse mask and spray paint in a satin single stage polyurethane paint. I can do the clear and satin paint, I do not polish. I'm not set up for it and don't know if I have the patience for it.

I did a Honda intake cover, with the raised Honda emblem polished then clearcoated. It came out pretty decent, until he put a carbon fiber hood on it that rubbed on the intake cover.

neektar

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I'm very patient which is why I took the time, the little that I had, to polish the wheels. It sucks that the tape curls up, is tape the only thing you can use??
Damn honda owners.....

trochoid

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The biggest problem I see is some of the edges and where they meet the curves. It might be possible to do it in reverse order, powder then polish. The old paint needs to be stripped and sandblasted. I could then coat the black. The rims would need repolishing afterwards at the edges where the powdercoating meets. I can mask off the polished area so little damage would occur from the blasting.

If you are serious about having this done, let's take it to PM's and not clutter Jon's thread.

vipernicus42

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Thank you! That's exactly the info I needed!


trochoid, those rims are so INCREDIBLY sexy! I see what you mean by the multicolor sparkle. *drools* I can't wait!

Jon

eViLRotor

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Powdercoating is rice! We'll have to call him ricepernicus42

vipernicus42

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Ricernicus42

or we could just run off your last post and call me

Blingallingus42

Jon

eViLRotor

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Either of those will work quite well...

Hades12

What is the thing in the bottom of this pic?





I like the black for the parts underhood.

vipernicus42

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The brass thing (which I'm absolutely amazed someone noticed) is a driver's side rear brake adjuster for us folks with Drum brakes

Mine doesn't work, so I only half-brake in the rear, and my e-brake doesn't hold with both wheels. So I ordered it to remedy that problem.

Jon

diabolical1

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no problem ... just hurry up and get it together so i can feed my pic-cravings!

blwfly

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i agree i think everyones gettin ancious

Rx7carl

Yes trochoid alot of the specialty powders are difficult to work with, but properly cured they are resistant to gasoline and chemicals. I did some stuff in annodized red (chrome base with tinted red clear) and soaked it in skydrol (aircraft hydraulic fluid). That stuff eats epoxy paint, imron (polyurethane) and anything else you get it on. While it softened the coating it didnt remove it. I have worked with my suppliers and with careful curing they will be fine underhood. They are just more sensitive to cure time and temperature to cure correctly. Thats why they cost more to coat with (along with multi stage shooting and the powder is more $). Sorry for the hijack Jon. Nice work trochid, how bout we split the continent in half? You get the west and I get the east. LOL

vipernicus42

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lol.. don't worry about it Carl. When posts give people info about stuff this cool, it's worth a *small* hijack Besides... "bling" threads fall off the board so fast, it's nice to have something to bump it up for a while

That's crazy how resistant those coatings are.... Is that what you're using on the intake? or would that cost me three times as much to get done? (sounds like one heckuva process!)

Jon