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Got parts back from powder coaters

Leroy -

How'd you do your valve covers? I REALLY like the way they came out. Also, are the lighter colored pieces all the same color? Some look silver and some look slightly 'Detroit Green'. Is this my browser, or did you come up with an incredibly cool powder coat choice? :thumbsup:
 
Wow that looks great, I really like the valve cover.

When are you putting this up for sale on your site?
 
BigBlueChevy said:
:eek::eek::eek::eek:

THATS JUST AWESOME
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Thanks The pictures do no justice to them. The quality is just awesome. It feels/looks like glass
Dave Barbieri said:
Leroy -

How'd you do your valve covers? I REALLY like the way they came out. Also, are the lighter colored pieces all the same color? Some look silver and some look slightly 'Detroit Green'. Is this my browser, or did you come up with an incredibly cool powder coat choice? :thumbsup:
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The turbo (cold side) is painted, the heat sheild is powder. Witch is the color you like?
The xover pipe is paint also. The rest is powder.
The valve covers are so smooth they look like plastic. I used a decal that is made for the hoods on 93 and 94 trucks.
DieselCash said:
Wow that looks great, I really like the valve cover.

When are you putting this up for sale on your site?
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Thank you. Won't be on the web site, but if someone needs something powdercoated I will help them as much as I can. I do not do it, but have a friend that does it professionaly for a living.
 
Looks great! The best thing about powder coating is those parts will look that good years from now as well. The valve covers look like the same mirror black I used on mine - 6.5 decals are a nice touch.

The way powder slowly "flows out" as the part is heated/cured makes for impressive reflectivity/gloss on relatively smooth parts. Also the textured powders like black wrinkle & silver vein/gold vein are great at hiding rust pits or other small surface irregularities.

The high heat powders claim to tolerate up to 1000 degrees F. I did my turbine heat shield in silver high-temp & it appears to be taking the heat. Wouldn't work on exh manifolds, but great for stuff that doesn't get extremely hot.
 
I've seen powder coating machines at harbor freight for around 100 bux or so, anyojne use one of these?

I bet that powder coated aluminum will be a breeze to keep clean too.
 
I've tried both the basic Eastwood "Hot Coat" & the Harbor Freight system & both will work fairly well for basic powder coating. Eastwood's website has a lot of good information on DIY'r powder coating. I'd say the Eastwood Hot Coat seems to transfer the powder effectively to a wider variety of parts/shapes. I suspect there is some difference in the voltage potential each setup applies btwn the gun & the ground.

The commercial pc guns have adjustability of the voltage btwn gun & ground which makes them more versatile & possibly efficient in powder transfer. However their cost is high & the DIY'r can do a lot with the simple Hot Coat or Harbor Freight systems. For the DIY'r, it's amazing just how many parts can be done with such a simple setup (Hot Coat).

I've been doing my own (and for friends) abrasive blasting, powder coating, etc. for about 10 years now & once you get started, you want to powder coat everything that gets chipped, or rusts. The DIY'r pc gun & a garage sale electric oven are cheap & let you do most parts that will fit in the oven.

The abrasive blasting setup gets more expensive because it takes a fair bit of air compressor capacity to blast reasonably fast. I've got a 7.5 hp 2-stage compressor & bought that much capacity specifically for blasting. Got a reasonably inexpensive Harbor Freight cabinet & have modified it some to make it more like the better quality/more expensive cabinets.

If you want to try powder coating, check out the info on Eastwood's website & I'm happy to answer any questions I can.

Darrin
 
Leroy, that looks incredible!!

Like the others, I'm really liking those valve covers, those things turned out NICE!!
 
Leroy, that is SO impressive. The only thing I saw that was close was a guy who powercoated his entire tractor - it's a thing of beauty!

Good job!

-Rob :)
 
Thanks TT. I'm going to try and bolt some of it on today. I'll take some pics when I do. I think its going to look really good.
 
mattthebrat said:
Are you going to powder coat the tie-rods next??:D
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I would have done that already on the chevelle if it would not have ruined them. Almost everything on that car is powdercoated. The whole shell of the car is powder, driveshaft, trans.......you name it. I went crazy on it.

Matt Bachand said:
LOL, I like the starter braCe! You'll have the nicest one for sure!
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You got a good eye because I don't see it? I had it done just don't see it in the pictures
 
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