Jherriott

One of those SeeSnake Micro Inspection Cameras from Home Depot or something similar from a plumber buddy would be good before the final button up of the intake...

stuartph

I had a report carried out on an oil sample from my old gt , showed silicone in it , guess that's what the company used for media blasting on the intake , oh dear

Imo000

Can these parts be successfully powder coated without media blasting them?

bureau13

The old finish seems on mine seems to be flaking off itself so easily, I can't imagine the rest of it will be hard to remove, but I haven't actually tried it yet...

kmascotto

I took the coating off my intake with 2000psi of water pressure

Adk46

I'm standing by for the return of my intake with these items. I may chuck up the brush in a cordless drill and whip it, whip it good.

Imo000

With this much risk, I wouldn't take a chance power coating anything in the intake path.

Adk46

The risk is in not knowing the risk, or failing to take it seriously enough.

My coating guy is going to blank off the openings. He's going to wash it afterwards anyway. Twice. I'm going to wash it again, and inspect it thoroughly.

I had an experience many years ago with grit in the works. A clumsy mechanic broke off a spark plug and pieces fell down inside. He used an air line to blow it out, but the intake valve happened to be open on that cylinder so the grit blew into the intake. All four cylinders got chewed up. The shop denied that this is how it happened, but there was no other way. Change spark plugs = new engine? No, but there's a special need to be careful with spark plugs that some may not recognize.

WallyP

I removed the factory top-coat on my '90 GT intake with plastic scrapers. Took less time than trying in vain to remove abrasive from hidden parts of the intake. Rattle can molten silver wheel paint looked good enough for me.

In my opinion, the risk isn't worth the reward...

GregBBRD

Too much "here's the way I did it, therefore it must be correct".

The point is simple. Regardless of your methods, who does it, how it is done...anything left in the intake system goes directly into the engine and can cause damage.

Make sure your intake is perfectly clean.

Done.

Speedtoys

Why not..Porsche did..and they had to CLEAN it.


Amazing all of the hysterics over this..if you miss "cleaning" in any motor assembly step, you're asking for a problem.

Just CLEAN things...

bureau13

Is that factory finish really a powder coat? I'm surprised it flakes off so badly, even after this much time, if it is...

Jherriott

I'm curious now about the factory intake. Does it have ANY kind of coating on the inside of the intake? So, in other words... are these people removing and recoating the insides of the intake because the factory did? Or is the problem the poor procedure of the removal of the exterior coating that leads to debris stuck on the inside?

My car was already done by Alex "Ghandi" Gandeski; the previous owner. In any other case I might be worried... but if any or you know Alex... You know it's CLEAN! :P

Jase.

Speedtoys

Even if its just paint...it flakes because the metal the intake is made of..doesn't like things stuck to it once it gets contaminants in it.

But either way..it was cast in sand, and then _cleaned_.

It's not that hard, it just needs done. WAY too much doom and gloom in here over cleaning something.

Some versions are harder than others, and will just require being blasted a different way.

Speedtoys

The S4+ intake, at least, was coated, and flakes off..you'll be missing some if you have one and pull it.