Mike1982

I am pulling the intake manifold this winter for a project and play on cleaning it up then paint it. Not sure exactly what color I would like to go or keep stock on it. I plan on painting the head as well, red. Pictures are ALWAYS great.

87944turbo

I thought about powder coating, but ended up going with the sliver 1200DEG F paint from pep boys. Cheap, really cleans things up under there and is easy to touch up if I need to.

shiners780

^ ^ ^ Ditto that.

Mike1982

Yea, I thought about power coating but that is way to much for just a fun car that I don't show off. I was thinking of keeping stock color but I thought I saw someone who did a flat black on here, looked pretty good if I remember. Also, anyone that painted thier head, I plan on doing mine while it is on the car this winter with everything off of it, any tips/tricks? What kind of paint did you guys use on that?

tconn

Here's a fuzzy pic of mine, I used high temp paint. It scratches easily.
I'll be powder coating it silver in the near future.

SamGrant951

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Mike1982

I like your car Sam, but I don't want my pipes (intake manifold, intercooler) to be that shinny. If I could get like a dull/flat of that color I would love to do that.

dougoh

i painted mine before and since im always under the hood of my car(working ) ..the paint would always scratch...so i ended up buying the intake and cam tower from jesse(jgporsche on rennlist)powder coated

MitchB

I did the powder coat. Not for show, but because it's almost bullet proof. It's a little shiny but not too bad...

RolexNJ

Mike: As Doug said, jgporsche is a Lister on here who has a page that show a few different parts and color combos. I just did a search and found his link for you. Look at these, maybe this will help you?



http://944powdercoating.bravehost.com

Keithr726

I painted the head on my old na and polished the intake. Haven't done anything under the hood of the 951 yet. Well maybe I will today since its raining. Next time jgporsche sells those intakes for really cheap, I'll have to get one. They are hot!

hosrom_951

It's a lot of work, but i polished mine......

Will see what i can do about pics.....

DanG

I painted the camtower on my 944 before I reinstalled the engine in august. I had the engine out, so I masked/plugged the holes, sprayed it down with "Purple Power" cleaner, scrubbed the nasty parts with a brush, then pressure washed it off. Then I sanded the letters on the camtower smooth before painting so that I didn't accidently scuff the surrounding paint afterwards. A whole can of high-temp flat black from AdvancePepZone and then half a can of clear. Finished it off by lightly sanding the lettering again, then a few more coats of clear.

Came out pretty good I think, although I'll probably p-coat the 951's cam tower because the paint has worn off on the outer edges after I've done some more work under there. But in general, its holding up better than expected.

http://evilengineering.com/944/index.html

Mike1982

Yea, but to do the cam tower I have to pull the head, don't I?? Never had to do that, so not 100% sure what it takes.

C. Beau

Powder coating shouldn't be too expensive and it is bullet proof.

Because I was at the time living with a girlfriend I couldn't stand...I hi buffed my intake....it takesd a good long while to do a good job

The intake casting is pretty rough so it needs to be knowcked down / smoothed out / wet sanded a good bit before using real buffing compunds.

Aluminum is about as nice a metal to polish as any...and once it is dead smooth and polished nothing sticks to it and is easy to keep clean....keep cooler cleen...think paint and powerder coating will retain some heat but probably negligible

On buffing...must use a real hi-rpm buff wheel / machine, a polish wheel on a grinder won't do it...but if you have the machine and go thru all steps...knock down / sand, sissle / rope wheel greasless compunds first...to spiral sewn wheel and agressive bar compunds, to loose cotton wheel and finishing compounds last and it will shine like a mirror....any step skipped and it won't turn out

this place has everything you'd ever need...and powder coating equipment too...you can get cheap systems and cook in a house oven...also has an in depth PDF buff guide on the site somewhere
http://www.caswellplating.com/buffs/