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Luis, it's one of the things I do as part of my company Tru6. Plating, anodizing, chrome and Cerakote work mostly for vintage 911 and Ferrari but do a lot of 928 as well. Working on an S4 intake now.
Sean does great work. I have seen some of his intakes - they are beautiful. The formula he uses requires baking and he also does all the stripping and cleaning. He also does cad plating and it is very pretty.
Mine was DIY. The Cerakote Glacier is easily sprayed and dries fully overnight. I used a $10 Harbor Freight spray gun with my 6 gallon compressor. Not ideal but good enough. The smell and fumes are terrible but the process is easy.
Some like DIY, some like to send it out. Both can work.
I'm working with a powder coat shop to blast and possible powder coating instead of painting. I'm trying to get the closest to the factory color as possible. The company they use to get the powders is Prismatic Powders. Trying to to figure what would be the most correct is tough. They actually have a color called "Porsche Silver". https://www.prismaticpowders.com/shop/powder-coating-colors/PMS-0439/porsche-silver
I have Porsche brochure from the the period '87-'95 with an intake picture which shows a pretty bright silver. I'm wondering if that would be the most original correct??
This picture is the Wurth Silver Wheel paint which is damn close. This is just a lacquer paint and just experimenting to get a color sample. I just painted the top section with the "Porsche" lettering, again to get a rendering. It does in the picture have more gold hue than in person.
Thoughts??
Search for Feather Bronze here on Rennlist. That is what the consensus was. I was told that by a longtime powder coater in TX that closed shop a couple of years ago.
That was the base coat followed by semi-gloss clear.
Kevin Wilson is in possession of a manifold side cover new from Porsche. Maybe he'll post a picture of how it comes from Porsche.
Here is my latest mix to get the correct color using Cerakote, both without and and with clear. This has been confirmed as very close to original by a local 928 expert and have done a few sets for cars he's restoring, doing one now and having a hell of time getting the old powder coat off that bubbled up from the cast magnesium. Of course the problem with web based pics is both different monitors have different color settings and of course a pic under fluorescent lighting isn't true to color either. My preference seeing both in real life, the non-clear looks the best.
What I like best about Cerakote over powder is how thinly it is applied. Powder coating makes everything look like a 2000 Ford Taurus.
I know that intake! Sean is right: Cerakote is amazing stuff. It is water-thin on application and even thinner when dry. I would never use anything else now.
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