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From: Insane Diego, California
Greg, I have a trusted place down here - well, in escondido. I know the place very well- and I know they do good work. The pictures of the rear assembly on my 78 in my assembly thread is a good example. I just dropped off a ton more stuff today.
On the "original color" idea, I don't know. I do know they would be happy to help you.
Olympic Coatings. The lady there, Merideth, knows me by name. The owner's name escapes me right now, but he looks like santa.
http://www.olycoatings.com/map.html
On the "original color" idea, I don't know. I do know they would be happy to help you.
Olympic Coatings. The lady there, Merideth, knows me by name. The owner's name escapes me right now, but he looks like santa.
http://www.olycoatings.com/map.html
I used those guys to do ceramic coating (Jett Hot) of the intake and plenum on my old '79 cab:
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Greg-
At the risk of 'my' plating place already being 'your' plating place, I had good luck with http://www.ocplating.com/ 990 North Parker, Orange, 714 771-1510.
They did my intake in 'chrome silver' and polished my thermostat housing in July 07 for $120. 5 day turnaround. Still looks good, nearly 2500 miles later. The silver is a little darker than Zermatt silver but it's pretty close. (The PO had had the valve covers (and only the valve covers) done somehere else.
At the risk of 'my' plating place already being 'your' plating place, I had good luck with http://www.ocplating.com/ 990 North Parker, Orange, 714 771-1510.
They did my intake in 'chrome silver' and polished my thermostat housing in July 07 for $120. 5 day turnaround. Still looks good, nearly 2500 miles later. The silver is a little darker than Zermatt silver but it's pretty close. (The PO had had the valve covers (and only the valve covers) done somehere else.
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FYI, below is a picture of what my '91's intake looked like at about 30k miles in 1998. Assuming that the picture is a faithful representation of the stock color then the stock color is a bit more of a matte finish than what I've seen for powder coating attempts to match.
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If it will help get a perfect match once and for all, I have a brand new never installed S4 Intake Side cover plate (drivers side) I can send it to you. It would be great for all of us to have an exact match for future PCing on these items.
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Ah if WE on Rennlist have not figured out the original color.......who is ever going to be able to prove it wrong 
Certainly NOT a PCA concours judge who has seen maybe a half a dozen 928s ! We have a couple new 85-86 side plenums on the shelf .... yes silver
Certainly NOT a PCA concours judge who has seen maybe a half a dozen 928s ! We have a couple new 85-86 side plenums on the shelf .... yes silver
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Greg,
Why not just paint
I had my intake and valve covers sand blasted, it left a great base surface for paint (the covers are very porous which give allot of surface area for paint to stick to)
I know powder coating seems to be the norm on this board, but i think the end results doesnt look as good, you are limited in colors and textures and its 5-10X the cost.
Why not just paint
I had my intake and valve covers sand blasted, it left a great base surface for paint (the covers are very porous which give allot of surface area for paint to stick to)
I know powder coating seems to be the norm on this board, but i think the end results doesnt look as good, you are limited in colors and textures and its 5-10X the cost.
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Im all honesty, ive seen allot of powdercoated intakes and cam covers, and i personally dont care for the look, so when you say they look better, i have to disagree.
I know Dr. Bob was going to get a silver paint with a gold hue to it. Similiar to what some used intakes look like. I think the original color from the factory when new was probably just silver, but as the intakes age they got a gold tint to it and i think that would look cool. The reason i painted my former car with red and silver wrinkle is that i thought the factory silver finish was just kinda boring. Silver cam covers on top od a shiny aluminum block and aluminum heads was just too boring for me. I think the silver with gold hue would look pretty cool.
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The wrinkle paint from PCers looks even better, because it covers the casting marks, etc.
I just dropped off a front and rear K members, L-Jet intake, rotor hats, cam housings, water bridge, motor mount hats, some fuel stuff, and some exhaust brackets and they are all getting hammertone "Silver vein gloss". Cool.
I just dropped off a front and rear K members, L-Jet intake, rotor hats, cam housings, water bridge, motor mount hats, some fuel stuff, and some exhaust brackets and they are all getting hammertone "Silver vein gloss". Cool.