teamstealth

hey every1,
I think about 90% of ppl who modify their UIM's have polished them. Dont get me wrong it looks great, but i keep thinking about the Z06 and its red valve covers....and i was wondering what all of you think about doing that to a UIM and TB? Also, my car is a MB...do you think it would clash? Just a thought, since im known to go agaisnt the grain sometimes.

plmk,
-Zach

Mahjik

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I painted mine:

https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showth...hreadid=211333

but pretty much back to the stock aluminum color. A few others have painted theres, just look around for more pics.

There is a picture of a car here on the forum somewhere that had the UIM power or ceramic coated red. Looks interesting to say the least.

Sprockett

I've heard that powdercoating works, too

Mahjik

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er ya, that should be "powder". Left off the 'd'.

teamstealth

yeah i like how clean urs is. Did you just use ceramic engine paint? I like the idea of being different...i think a red UIM/TB with all polished intake/IC pipes would look pretty smooth. I dunno how good it would look when my car is green tho, lol. I keep drooling over this pic of a electron blue Z06 with its red engine covers in view.

Mahjik

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It's just standard high temp engine paint. You don't need to get all elaborate with it.

Sorry, that pic I was talking about wasn't red, it was blue:

http://nrgperformance.com/rx7/rx7_7.jpg

teamstealth

haha aight...once i get some time i'll pick up some red stuff and give it a whirl. I assume im going to have to dissasemble the TB to paint it right? I'm in the middle of painting my wheels gunmetal like ZeroBanger, but after that i think this will be promising. BTW, that blue UIM is

-Zach

c00lduke

I powder coated mine but i think a cherry red would be very sweet. Even more so on a silver car.

Mahjik

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That depends on you. You can actually get all the visible parts of the TB without removing anything. I just used 2 sandwich bags for the sides and some masking tape to mask off everything.

teamstealth

that looks awesome! please tell me ur planning on getting matching rims?

teamstealth

not to mention i just thought of the time this will take....1 hour max as opposed to 7 hours to polish...LOL


another note....what about gold with the MB....my wheels will be gunmetal with red calipers on sunday.

93BlackFD

i powdercoat stuff....$55 for a UIM or LIM

also, with the paint...engine degreaser is no longer your friend it will make that paint look like crap

teamstealth

i am sold on powdercoating and i LOVE the look....however i am broke. Engine enamel would hold up ok against degreaser tho.

teamstealth

dammit too many choices...red or ALL gunmetal (including the pipes)? and if red, ALL red, or polished pipes for some contrast?

c00lduke

matching rims where the reason i went with the gold

teamstealth

i could match my rims or match my calipers with the two colors i have picked out...lol

dubcaps

here are some pics that should help you out...





-stephen

EDIT: and i didnt remove anything to paint it, just masked it off.

teamstealth

that does look nice. My only concern is if i tried to EXACTLY match my wheels, id be using the same paint which is Dupli-color wheel paint...specifically designed for wheels. Do you all think that would hold up to the heat in there?

dubcaps

i actually used some silver duplicolor wheel paint on a few things under the hood to see if it would hold up before i bought the high temp stuff. The crossover pipe and intake elbow seem to be holdling up pretty well with no signs of wear, fade, or corrosion. After that i decided to get the high temp stuff just in case. Keep it mind though that i didnt do the manifold with the wheel paint which prolly gets the hottest.
-stephen

ZeroBanger

I painted my wheels gunmetal and painted my IC, Air box and manifold black.

Did my wheels about 9 months ago, maybe more. The manifold was about 6 months ago.

93BlackFD

engine enamels, wheel paints, etc, will not hold up against degreaser or brake cleaner

only specialized caliper paint (which isn't a urethane based paint) will hold up against brake cleaner

teamstealth

yea...im j/ concerned about it being really different shades of gunmetal and looking like ***...

Cihuuy

Dude what paint is that on your wheel?? is that dupli-color gunmetal?

IRPerformance

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The color on engines like the corvette and s2000 are a wrinkle powder coat. Any place that does powdercaoting should eb able to do it for you. I also tried painting my intake manifold several times, and nothing holds up.

dubcaps

Cihuuy, yes its duplicolor, its the same stuff that zerobanger used, i think its called graphite or something. I think it turned out really well and i like it a lot. If you have any questions ill try to answer them for you.