randy803

A lot of people are asking me about powder coating thier cam covers so I want to specify something. YOU PREP THEM ILL COAT THEM. Porsche DID NOT finish the castings of these cam covers and under that thermal barrier coating the metal looks like HELL. Long cracks and pits and chunks missing. I have done several pair and they all look the same under that Porsche coating its just a very rough casting. I have spent countless hours working these things about 6 hours per cover and am pretty feed up with them. If you are going to powder coat or send them off for powder coating I recommend doing the following first ---

Use Aircraft stripper to remove as much of the crap as you can. Several hundred applications will probably be needed! hehehehe

Then sand blast the remaining crap off.

You will be left with some nasty looking covers and will need to smooth with a METAL based filler and sand smooth.

Then you are ready for powder coating. Its a hell of a job let me tell ya!

I am surprised Porsche did this but I guess it was never supposed to be seen, still I expect more from a company like Porsche than I am seeing in these covers.

Jim_H

I got these back yesterday. They look great! $150 for the covers and a couple of other parts.

Big Dave

Jim:

They look awesome! Who did them? Did you have to prep the covers like randy described?

randy803

$150.00 is pretty much inline, so I would imagine they count the prep labor in that. In fact if I was going to charge thats about where I would come in at for this job. Powder coating is really easy and fast its the prep work that makes the job just like painting a car!

Tony

"Robin red" in wrinkle finish

Jim_H

Big Dave,

No work by me, took in ugly cam covers and presto, cool cam covers. I think they dipped them or something, I'll find out.

Tony,

I like the wrinkle finish. Would that make it easier if you wanted to highlight the 'Porsche'? I messed around with a red Testors marker but it didn't want to go on well and I don't think it would wear well. Mine is a high gloss black finish.

Shane

Yep I know exactly what you are talking about!!




Haven't powder coated them yet but will be soon.

PorKen

Jeez, were those made in -East- Germany?

randy803

My covers look EXACTLY like those Shane! man they are rough.

heinrich

I believe Porsche had these outsourced to a small shop in the Sudan .... why can't we remake these in good ole aluminium?

Helstrm

Yup Randy and I spent a lot of time on those covers.. I have scars from pulling the Passenger side cover off the car. Then hours of blasting and grinding.... Hell we could coat them for a low price if they were send to us prepped. But the hell with all the prep work... Maybe we should teach the kids how to blast and let them do the hard part. Then we can just coat and bake.....

Ispeed

I am going to pick mine up today, done in red chrome (approximate color). It is a red tinted clear over silver or natural bare metal.
The pic is my stuff for the '89 done in silver. I'll post pics of the new stuff as soon as I have it.

morganabowen

Advanced Powder Coating Ventura California

Mark

Larry - That looks really nice.

Have you changed your motor mounts? Ususally when you have that much space between the cross bar and the tubes, it is indicative of squished MM's!

morganabowen

Mark...The MM's are fine, my buddy made that crossbar special for my car , it is not OEM