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I get that, I bought another car to drive while Im building my motor also. Im glad I came across this as I have an aluminum block M52 that I wanted to paint soon, and yours came out great. Hope you dont mind me stealing your method and color choice as it looks amazing. oh, and I almost bought that M50 from Keith, small world.
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Originally posted by Farbin Kaiber View PostBlack, do 'em black.
Originally posted by 2man View Postdope. love the fab work. any eta on when it might be done??
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Finally finished up all my side jobs and got to paint the motor this weekend!
Cleaned the whole thing real well with scotch bright, tooth brush and brake clean. Then I did a two stage etching process to prep the aluminum for the paint. That process started with an acid wash which was mainly a phosphoric acid just to clean the aluminum then a chromic acid based chemical that causes a chrome conversion before the aluminum can oxidize and allows the paint to bond to.
I didnt snap any before and after pics but this is after the whole process was done, the motor was left to dry over night. Notice the gold color, thats the chromic layer that was formed.
One picture with flash and one without....
I am presented with a new problem, the whole motor is silver, will have blue R covers but i cant decide whether i should paint the accessories(alternator, intake, fuel rail, pulleys,etc) the same color as the motor or a different color. Im not feeling the gray i had planned, but i feel like i could easily end up with wayyyy to much silver....
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Originally posted by benyen soljax View PostThat engine bay makes my jealous. Mine is filthy. No brake booster?
Originally posted by Perry Wilson View PostLooks good man. You went a littke.more sterile than.im going though. I should be laying paint by next week
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Looks good man. You went a littke.more sterile than.im going though. I should be laying paint by next week
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That engine bay makes my jealous. Mine is filthy. No brake booster?
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Car came home on sunday, pretty happy with it, couple spots that i'm disappointed with but for what i paid the painter i really cant complain, and its an engine bay anyways so once the motors in no one will notice.
Painted the master cylinder and stripped the motor to get ready to do a phosphoric etch before i painted it.
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Originally posted by Perry Wilson View PostNo I have sanded down the duraglass and redone it like 5 times because im anal and things have to be perfect. shot another coat of primer and found a dozen more spots I dont like. and no everything is going in car
Definetly keep your thread updated, we are headed in a very similar direction. I get my car back from paint tommorow so today I'm cleaning the garage and hopefully tommorow I get some time to wrap up a lot of the wiring inside and put the dash in.
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Originally posted by mdlimy View Postdid you get any paint shot yet?
are you leaving the fusebox in the bay?
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did you get any paint shot yet?
are you leaving the fusebox in the bay?
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Originally posted by mdlimy View PostActually in all honesty I haven't seen your bay I don't think, and I definetly haven't seen any other bays with plates in section at an angle, I just thought it would look good and went ahead and did it, really glad I did.
Post some pics of your bay!
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