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Old 01-29-17, 06:44 PM
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MA Anyone Powder Coat FD Throttle Bodies?

Looking for someone who can powder coat throttle bodies for FD RX-7. I was told this was harder to do, due to the thermo pellet wax, Is there anyone on here that has experience with this and could do it?

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well i cant do it but i have done it to mine. I stripped everything out of mine and tapped up both ends so the powder don't get in where the throttle plates are. Other then having a few areas that are tight it isn't much of an issue. Tight areas with powder coating opens up issues called Faraday Cage areas or something like that.
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Like this?
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Damn that's slick, I want one^^
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My brother (1cleanCYM) and I will be offering the service soon.
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I powdered coated mine in a satin finish and nickel plated all the hardware lol. the image opens correctly if you right click open in a new window, all my pictures are like that for some reason.
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Damn that nickel plating though..... Sure makes it pop.
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Yeah I like it. I needed to do something either polish the aluminum or make the hardware stand out. And polishing was to time consuming. I did this for all the fasteners under the hood. For some fasteners it came out looking like chrome but others it didn't. I didn't care to polish all the fasteners which would have helped make it all look like chrome. Had other stuff to deal with in my build.




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