Show me your painted engine parts

[TURBOX]

Hi, your opinion is greatly appreciated, as im stuck..

getting ready to powder-coat and or hydro-dipp my valve cover, intake manifold, and sum other parts like t-stat housing but cant decide on a color combo.

I have Brilliantrot Red e30, and was originally going to do wrinkle red powder coat on both. but i also like the wood grain on the valve cover, and shiny chrome like finish for the manifold.

thanks for your time.

[Court M3]

Not a fan of the wood finish, what about wrinkle red with polished lettering, and chrome manifold?

[Kershaw]

I asked for wrinkle red when I got my intake manifold and valve cover powdercoated and got glossy red. They had production delays for over a week, so what should have been 2 weeks turned into 3.5 weeks and by then I didn't care I just wanted my parts back.

The upside to smooth and glossy wrinkle coat is that it does clean up very easily. Dirt gets trapped in a winkle coat.

[djjerme]

I am more of a fan of stock, or close to stock.

Maybe a dark gunmetal on the intake, black with the reliefs shinned up on the Valve cover..

[PKile]

Colored or chromed parts on a BMW engine just screams Riceboy to me. I plan on satin black for my valve cover with the bars and BMW lettering sanded. This is philosophically correct given the valve cover treatment on later BMW engines.

[dogze30]

just polish the parts yourself

[TURBOX]

Acid Bath, Sand Blasted, Washed, Tape up


Silver Powder Base Coat


Red Gold Dust Candy on the Silver Base




Hot n Fresh Candy


Finally Cooled

[TURBOX]

Let me know what you guys think, im alsi thinking of adding digital camo hydro dipp and sum clear to finish it off