perrys4

Greg, my friend used Embee as someone else had already mentioned.

Randy V

I used those guys to do ceramic coating (Jett Hot) of the intake and plenum on my old '79 cab:

morganabowen

WOW Rob, your engine looks terrific

worf928

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.

Rob Edwards

Yeah, I failed to mention that mine got a second layer of clear over the chrome silver, so it's probably too shiny for concours accuracy considerations.

DR

Hi Greg,

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.

Jim bailey - 928 International

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

RyanPerrella

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.

BC

Paint does not hold up. Oil, fuel, cleaners all get into it. Powdercoating is impervious except for brake clean. Plus its harder to chip. And the end results usually look 10x better than the paint.

RyanPerrella

YEAH IT DOES

BC

Nuh -uh.

RyanPerrella

well this isnt going anywhere.......Anyway

BC

I thought this was like a Uh huh, and then I say "nuh-uh", and then you say "Is So!"

RyanPerrella

yeah we could go back and forth, maybe another day though......just not today


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.

BC

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.