RyanPerrella

black intake with zinc plated fasteners would look very nice.

I would say go gloss black (non wrinkle) with the polished or zinc plated fasteners. I dont like the powder coated wrinkle, its not wrinkle it looks just splotchy honestly. The wrinkle in a can is actually really good stuff, thats what i have on my car.

I would love to see gloss black intake and cam covers with highly polished fasteners, i was going to do that on my other set of valve covers and intake, but i got allot of compliments at sharktoberfest for my wrinkle red covers and wrinkle silver intake. I will detail it up and do the painted lettering though soon.

RyanPerrella

I was going for the 550 Maranello look. I like the black cam belt covers, and the black wires, it gives good contrast of black and red and silver. But the intake looks like a silver blob, i will sand off the lettering and paint the cast in letters.

RyanPerrella

the high gloss black i would hope could come out like this.

This was my inspiration.........

As for the chrome look, i may experiment with a paint caller "mirrachrome" that has bits of aluminum to get that polished look from a paint. Not sure if it will stand up to the heat though, although the manifold really dosent get too hot you can never touch it.

MBMB

Ryan --

You've mentioned painting the intake before. What kind of paint do you recommend?

RyanPerrella

well i used a wrinkle finish paint. Some brands are better then others, I got mine from Summit racing, the stuff they sell produces a nice tight wrinkle. All i did was have the manifold and cam covers bead blasted, then i washed dipped them in an alodine and water solution as noted on the 928 tips site by nichols. Painted them with the wrinkle finish 3 good coats and set them in the over at 200 for an hour to get them to really wrinkle good. The Red turned out like a brick red and the grey looked like cement, so i put a light topcoat of a brighter red on and aluminum on the intake manifold to produce the shades that i have now.

Everyone seems to think powder coating is the only way to go, i like its durability but its 5X the cost to do it that way and I wanted a wrinkle and i know the powder coating wont give me that surface texture. I wil probably invest in the powder coating supplies for another time and try them myself at some point.

MBMB

I don't think the Mity-Vac will do the job on the brake booster -- too much volume to pump out (it might work, but it'd take a loooong time). The needle doesn't move when I try to draw a vacuum on the brake booster with my Mity-Vac.

I hooked my shop vac up to the brake booster to draw out most of the air, figuring that I could then close the valve on the hose between the shop vac and the check valve and use the Mity-Vac (which was hooked to the small fitting on the check valve) to raise the vacuum. The shop vac will draw about 10cmHg of vacuum. But when I shut the valve between the shop vac and the brake booster, the Mity-Vac's gauge dropped to zero. Back to the drawing board. I guess I need a real vacuum pump to be sure.