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Jan 9, 2010 | 02:29 AM

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Intake Manifolds

Anybody DIY with painting your Intake? What type- brand spray paint did u use? How did it hold up over time. Any pics of finished product for ideas would be cool -THANKS 2 ALL

Jan 9, 2010 | 10:19 AM

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I'd take it to a body shop or get some high temp paint and primer from autozone.

Jan 9, 2010 | 10:34 AM

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its a weiand/lingenfelter intake that has been airbrushed. i cant give you specifics to cost or type of paint or whatever since i bought it already painted like this

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Jan 9, 2010 | 10:59 AM

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^ That's awesome. I never thought about having the intake air brushed. Good thing I haven't got a LS6 intake yet.

Jan 9, 2010 | 11:49 AM

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regular automotive paint will work just fine. I had an older member on here airbrush custom true fire on one of my intakes and it held up perfect. later on I had a different ls6 intake simply painted gloss black with clear from the local body shop and it also held up no problems.... these intakes do not get very hot. Hope this helps! Here are some pictures of my 2 I had done.... Also FWIW, I had the body shop do the valvecovers in the same gloss black at the same time as the intake and they held up perfect as well.... even under high performance twin turbo conditions.....

and the old true fire set-up...

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Jan 9, 2010 | 01:43 PM

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i only paid $350 shipped for it anyway. it was already painted plus it was ported and drilled for direct port nitrous.

Jan 10, 2010 | 06:04 PM

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NICE! I like the gloss/clear finish-thank you

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Jan 10, 2010 | 06:21 PM

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Heres mine that i did in a Sebring silver and had it cleared in 3 coats

Jan 11, 2010 | 04:34 AM

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I hit mine up with a semi-gloss black.

Jan 11, 2010 | 08:21 AM

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I had a friend use high temp gloss black and clear on mine. No pics here at work though. It looks nice.

Jan 11, 2010 | 10:52 AM

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regular old krylon worked on my stocker and fast intake (no priming, sanding, just cleaned with degreaser first)

holding up great for well over a year

Jan 11, 2010 | 09:47 PM

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I sprayed base coat-clear coat on mine.

Jan 11, 2010 | 10:57 PM

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I have a black car and Im stuck, I have no idea what color to go with. Either I do for the black+clear to match the car's paint or go silver with silver powder coated valve covers.

What do you guys think?

Jan 13, 2010 | 05:23 PM

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Here is my intake. Sprayed with Krylon Fusion and clear. Lettering was all done with a model car brush.

Jan 13, 2010 | 06:01 PM

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I'm thinking of going with light Pewter Metallic on a LS6 to contrast to the black engine bay like Steve Yoast's Z28. It looks super clean and different.

Jan 13, 2010 | 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by rob69zombie

I'm thinking of going with light Pewter Metallic on a LS6 to contrast to the black engine bay like Steve Yoast's Z28. It looks super clean and different.

Agreed. I was gonna do black but now that I come to think of it our motors are so.....meh when you pop the hood. Any silver, or gunmetal intake will make things POP a lil bit

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