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Old 07-24-2010, 11:56 AM
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Has anyone ever powdercoated thier HP evo's?
If so post up some pictures.
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Old 07-24-2010, 02:57 PM
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I have never heard of it.. What color you thinking?
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Black most likely.
I'm going to get a quote from a shop in town on Monday.
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Leaving lip polished?
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There was a guy here that did that same thing by himself. He powder coated them at his house using an old kitchen oven.
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It's a chrome lip, and yes I'm keeping it lol
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Ask Silverghost about it...I was interested in doing the centers of my old chrome Z06 wheels and he said that if there are any imperfections in the plating that it could cause problems.
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Well I decided to pull the trigger and go through with it, my Evo's are at the shop getting powder coated gloss black.

Here is a couple photo shops CHAMAN did for me, feed back is very much apreciated.

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a million times better than silver on your car.
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Leave them stock.

I thought you were selling those anyway.
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Still not a fan of black wheels, but black and red look hot. Will be a nice upgrade!
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Originally Posted by dubga
Leave them stock.

I thought you were selling those anyway.

There're not stock there're after
Market LOL
Decided to keep them, no one wanted to give me what I was asking for them.
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I'd say go for it. That black looks like it would set your car off nicely.
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Originally Posted by MR_M
I'd say go for it. That black looks like it would set your car off nicely.

They should be done in about a wk. It wasn't cheap either :-/
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I thought about it in the past, but the fake rivets seemed like they would be an issue. Lookin forward to some pics once they are done, you are definitly commited to keeping them now you put the $$$$ into powercoating them.
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I've also heard of the rivets being an issue, who knows what's going to happen when those bitches get tossed in the oven LOL
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I think those will look a lot better than the chrome look. It looks a lot better with the red.
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man now theres someone else with black evos lol. thought i was going to remain the only one. check out my pics in my sig to get an idea of what yours will look like.
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