[Thermactor]

Here's a thread for you guys to relax to. Aircraft paint stripper, wire brush, castrol super clean, towels, Plasti-kote 500 deg high temperature engine grey primer, Plasti-kote 500 deg high temperature engine "aluminum" paint.
Will post several pictures, each uploaded through the forum.

 

[Thermactor]

After 5 minutes of scrubbing with a wire brush and application of Aircraft Paint Remover

 

[Thermactor]

Fully cleaned-off, ready to get sprayed in a $150,000 professional wind-draft paint booth (my room)

 

[Thermactor]

Primer sprayed on. Still wet. Damn plasti-kote POS spray paint bottle - uneven and sporadic application of primer. Doesn't help though that it's two years old and almost empty.

 

[Thermactor]

Baked in the oven on the top rack with a marvelous roast chicken sitting in the rack below it. Best chicken I ever had. 200 degrees and about 25, 30 minutes? Not sure.

 

[Guest]

Cant wait to see the final product

 

[Thermactor]

Semi-finished state. Aluminum sprayed on in many light coats, tossed in oven for 40 minutes at 180 degrees. Right now I'm spraying on more and more layers of it onto the valve covers, will let them cure for a day and then will throw them in the oven for a final time to seal the deal. But this is pretty much how it will look even when it's done.

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did! I'm going to pass out from the fumes... :wtf:

 

[a70]

you painted them in your room??? crazy
why not go outside?

When did you get a GTE?

 

[Thermactor]

you painted them in your room??? crazy
why not go outside?

When did you get a GTE?

windy and cold outside. i don't quite have a GTE, just a GTE head, valve covers, turbo, exhaust manifold, electronics, intercooler, intercooler pipes, and stuff.

 

[UberSupra.com]

Most impressive

 

[Turbo Zupra]

Looks great.

 

[Boostin88T]

Those look like mine....mine are sandblasted and clear coated.

 

[SupraMOB]

Looks very good
ME WANT ONE

 

[ma70man]

Very slick job Therm. 88T: Ive heard nasty things about clear coat over time, yellowing and such. I think Im going to polish mine.

 

[paddlenbike]

Baked in the oven on the top rack with a marvelous roast chicken sitting in the rack below it. Best chicken I ever had.

LOL. There's salmonella chicken then there's VOC chicken. You had the latter.
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Volatile Organic Compounds

And BTW, nice job.

 

[Guest]

therm: you got a GTE?

 

[BrysonK]

Can't you read? same question was asked, and Thermactor already answered it....


...irregardless, good work Chuck, :fruit:

 

[jong]

therm: thats some nice work man!!! hit me up on aim sometime. (suprMk3)

I"m gonna have to cook me a chicken when i bake my valve covers. haha!

 

[Boostedstr8six]

Lookin good. :bigthumb: Yeah, I tried the paint then clearcoat thing and it started to cook on the exhaust side and turn yellow/brown.

 

[steve_mk3]

nicely done!!
thanks for sharing with us.
When you baked the Valve Covers, how bad did it smell?
My wife wont let me go near the oven to bake car parts

Steve