6 inlet painting

[ayton autosport]

Anyone give me tips on painting a 6 inlet manifold steps and paint type they used

thanks
mat

[Eeyore]

Clean it all up the best you can and then use etch primer and high temp paint.

[rocker8742]

Mine was just cleaned and sprayed with Simoniz high temp paint I think it was had a fair few coats though

[cully]

cleaned mine with wirebrush in a drill, washed it off with brake cleaner,masked up the holes,primmed with halfords primmer,painted with halfords car paint,clear coated with halfords lacure

[welshpug]

blasted and left as is is best.

[rocker8742]

blasted and left as is is best.

Tbh that's the truth

[ayton autosport]

Just got round to spraying the manifold yesterday, need lacuring yet but I like it

mat

[Matt-Rallye]

Finished painting my spare inlet the other day.

Before:



After:







That was a full de-grease, light sand with 800 wet, 1200 dry then 2 coats white etch primer and 3 coats Agri spec High temp gloss red.

[Orta]

Looking good. Wanna spray mine black. Where's everyone getting the pug badges to go on them from?

[cully]

use a solvent to disolve the glue remove the badge then you can re fix it with some double sided sticky

[RetroPug]

There's a guy that custom makes them, original, new colours, other designs etc. for 3 quid or something.

I painted one a while ago, but it turned out to be warped. :/
http://306oc.co.uk/forum/thread-19890-page-4.html

[rikky]

i've sprayed them in the past and also had them powdercoated. always been much happier with the powdercoated finish to be honest

[Eeyore]

Yeh if you can get it powdercoated then of course thats going to be a better longer lasting more durable finish!

[rikky]

only pain is when the coaters decide to leave all the bolt holes uncovered and you spend 2 hours unpicking coating from threads..

[Matt-Rallye]

i've sprayed them in the past and also had them powdercoated. always been much happier with the powdercoated finish to be honest

That is engine porn!

[rikky]

unfortunately i've ruined a perfectly good 205 by putting it in (apparently):

http://rikky.net/upload/lump_flywheel.jpg




not arsed!

[Eeyore]

oh mate that 205 is ruined. look how terrible it looks with that awesome engine in it. Absolutely ruined... i cant even look at it.

oh wait... im lying. its awesome.

[Matt-Rallye]

oh mate that 205 is ruined. look how terrible it looks with that awesome engine in it. Absolutely ruined... i cant even look at it.

oh wait... im lying. its awesome.

This.




X2

[impotentials]

i've sprayed them in the past and also had them powdercoated. always been much happier with the powdercoated finish to be honest

That is a very clean engine (fact). I better get to work with the soap then....