amazing paint...
phillyturbosix -
holy smoke that's a gorgeous engine bay!!!
and just thought I'd throw this out there, no point really....
as good as powder coating is, I've got a stock up-pipe that a buddy *painted* gloss black several years ago for me. He worked as a painter for an industrial equipment company and apparently had access to some pretty amazing paint - in fact, you'd have see it to believe it. anyway, I used to run that black up-pipe with a turbo shield that was powder coated gloss black. I got tired of the black and decided I wanted to switch to chrome so I was just going to have the black pieces chrome plated. the chrome shop was going to charge me extra for stripping the parts so I tried stripping them myself. my first attempt was using spray-on paint stripper. it didn't really work, but it did attack the powder coating enough to ruin the finish and make it bubble a little bit. however, the paint stripper wouldn't touch the paint on the up-pipe! you could spray it directly on the paint, let it sit and then wipe it right off and there was absoutely NO effect on the paint! it really was unbelievable. I'm still running that up pipe (although I'm looking for a chrome one) and it looks every bit a good today as it did when he first painted it. I've even dropped it on the garage floor and it just *barely* scratched it. you have to look very closely to even see an evidence of a scratch. when I asked my buddy about the paint he said he used "high-solids" eurathane (whatever that means ) and I think he said it sold for about $100 a quart. too bad it's so expensive, that would be the ultimate paint for the outside of your car!
phillyturbosix -
holy smoke that's a gorgeous engine bay!!!
and just thought I'd throw this out there, no point really....
as good as powder coating is, I've got a stock up-pipe that a buddy *painted* gloss black several years ago for me. He worked as a painter for an industrial equipment company and apparently had access to some pretty amazing paint - in fact, you'd have see it to believe it. anyway, I used to run that black up-pipe with a turbo shield that was powder coated gloss black. I got tired of the black and decided I wanted to switch to chrome so I was just going to have the black pieces chrome plated. the chrome shop was going to charge me extra for stripping the parts so I tried stripping them myself. my first attempt was using spray-on paint stripper. it didn't really work, but it did attack the powder coating enough to ruin the finish and make it bubble a little bit. however, the paint stripper wouldn't touch the paint on the up-pipe! you could spray it directly on the paint, let it sit and then wipe it right off and there was absoutely NO effect on the paint! it really was unbelievable. I'm still running that up pipe (although I'm looking for a chrome one) and it looks every bit a good today as it did when he first painted it. I've even dropped it on the garage floor and it just *barely* scratched it. you have to look very closely to even see an evidence of a scratch. when I asked my buddy about the paint he said he used "high-solids" eurathane (whatever that means
) and I think he said it sold for about $100 a quart. too bad it's so expensive, that would be the ultimate paint for the outside of your car!
