Thread: Painting the intake or not

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Originally Posted by C9x

Consider powder coating.

I've done three and still have two of them.
One stocker that got left behind in the move and two aluminum intakes.

Many miles down the road, they still look good and clean up easily.

Powder coaating it will be.

I find myself getting less interested in bling than I used to. The Willys takes way to much time and it isn't always fun to drive knowing that all of the billet and chrome will need to be cleaned when I get back. I suppose I could just not clean it but then I should have not done it in the first place . 20 years ago I enjoyed all of the polishing but now my arthritus say to he77 with it!! I guess that is why we only made it to two shows this year.

Bling can be cool.

Showin' off taillights - even cooler....

Here's one:


The other:



Can't hardly see the intake anyway.

I like chrome and aluminum as an accent.

Too much is simply that . . . too much.

if it helps any i powder coated mine! it handles the heat well and oil and dirt just wipes away

I generally send mine out for Jet Hot coating - but in my case just do the aluminum color. Now that they have lots of colors, you can come real close on engine color. It's also very easy to keep clean with no raw unpolished aluminum to absorb gas and oil drools.