Painting Intake Plaque

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I've been searching for a thread I found a while back detailing how to go about painting the intake plaque. Now that I have my plaque off and want to paint it, I can't find the thread. So, umm, yeah, any pointers, such as sanding, type of paint, blah blah?

Anyone have pics of their painted intake plaques?

 

illwood

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I polished and painted mine this summer 'cause I was a bit bored.



This is a picture I took of it a few minutes ago. I sandblasted it first to get all of the old paint out. Then I sanded it with a grit progression of 80 to 150 to 400. Then I wet sanded 400 to 800 to 1000 grit before taking it to the polishing wheel.

Then I painted the whole thing and let the paint set for a few minutes before carefully wiping off the paint from the higher surfaces with an acetone soaked rag.

You could do the same thing with different colors in each of the "low areas" if you did a little bit of masking.

After it was all dry, I sprayed a coat or two of wheel-clear paint on the whole thing so that I wouldn't have to be constantly polishing it.

As you can see, I don't clean it often.

 

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illwood

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I was considering making some custom intake plaques out of aluminum if anyone wanted to give me a little $$ for my trouble.

 

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I think it would make you some money Matt....think about it

 

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xr8d302 said:

I think it would make you some money Matt....think about it

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Does that mean you're interested Aaron? Feel free to PM me if you have any ideas of what you would want on one. I'd be willing to try to make something cool.

 

xr8d302

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I'm always up for stuff like that man....gimme some time to think of a good idea. I wouldn't mind a 3D running horse on it?

 

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Here's mine which I did a year or two ago. A lot of work involved.

 

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Here's my upper intake and top plate that I powdercoated awhile back. I was going for the brushed aluminum look on the raised part, but I plan on polishing it in the future.

 

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