I was upgrading my throttle body when I noticed this badge. Does it come standard?
Intake Badge
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Sandblast it, paint the entire thing black, and then hit the top with a flap disk of low grit. It will look beautiful.
Years ago I painted the one I had black, then took it to work with me, took a few light passes on a surface grinder, then sprayed it with clear. I thought it looked great! Sold the car so I don't know how well it held up or what it looks like today though.... 
I decided to add a little tasteful color. Only thing not shown in this pic is I painted the dot in 5.0 red (similar to badge on the fender)
I used a paint stripper, wet sanded with 320then 400, painted then wet sanded again and cleared
I was trying to figure out what the dark shadows were and it's my fingers reflecting in the gloss. This clear works pretty good for spray can stuff.
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did you strip the intake before painting?
I decided to add a little tasteful color. Only thing not shown in this pic is I painted the dot in 5.0 red (similar to badge on the fender)
Ive always liked the nozzle that VHT uses on their spray cans. Makes spraying very easy compared to some others.
I just went over the entire intake with a wire wheel on an angle grinder. Just to remove the old crud and corrosion and still leave some casting texture. That was the first Explorer intake I found. I sold it and use one from a '96 with the internal EGR
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I cut the loom tab off, used a cut off wheel to cut the remnants of the tab even with the side ribs. Then sanded and polished, masked off and then painted intake. Still using this one with the coloured intake cover.
That looks awesome! I have one coming in the mail, Monday. Who knew these things were 35 dollars up to over 100? Geez!!I used a paint stripper, wet sanded with 320then 400, painted then wet sanded again and cleared
so here's some updated pix. I noticed that the intake opening was about a quarter inch smaller than the new throttle body. I was going to just perfect use a dye grinder and debur bit until I saw this abrasive pad sanding wheel. It was worn to a taper and fit just perfect to open up the intake mouth to gasket match the throttle body.
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it’s crazy what restored examples are selling for.
$50-75 seems to be the range on eBay. A few outliers at $100. These are completed/sold listings.
what do they say about lipstick on a pig?. Regardless it's my pig. Next is that ugly ass foam on the A/C hose.
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