Painting upper intake and valve covers...

capriman86 said:

Ok...I have done 2 intakes and covers and intake plates.


The coating on the 87-93 intakes can be pretty tough and bead blasting doesn't take it off.
The bead blaster is GREAT for all the accessories though!

I used Aircraft Stripper on my intakes.

For the primer I used Sherman Williams Self Etching Primer.
For Paint I used SEM Promax paint and SEM Promax Clear.

Here is my 86 Capri and my 88GT


Some SEM Promax Gunmetal on it.




Then some SEM Clear was applied.

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ReefBlueHatch said:

I just finished polishing my intake plaque and it looks great. It took some time tho. Then I masked off and spray painted the lines. After they lines were dry, I used a brush to do the letters and wiped off the excess paint that was on the surface.

I was thinking about polishing my stock valve covers. Would it be better or worse to start off with sandblasting with glass beads?

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I candy said:

question do you sand before you etch? and if so what do you use?

I'd like to do this to my system max before i put it on soon. It will work the same right?

also maybe you can help me out i don't see that promax on the site. SEM Products - Home Site is there one you recomend?

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