Powder coating, finally!

[mike diesel]

Finally tweaked my twin kit how I want it. Had some ugly bends like at the y-bridge with the boot. Shortened the bridge and went v-band. Also built a new 3.5" hot pipe.





Then spent a few hours yesterday sand blasting all the piping. And spent several hour trying to get the original powder coating off of the gt55 cover, but finally got all off.





Went to the powder coaters today and decided on peka-blue for the piping and to have polished covers. Should pop real nice together.



Now the aweful week long wait begins. I am beyond excited.

 

[Chevy1925]

is it done yet?

 

[mike diesel]

Ugh I wish!

Just dropped the gt55 housing off. They said should be good to go wednesday.

 

[ScreaminDuramax]

Waiting for powder coat is such a drag. I remember when I powder coated a suspension kit before the holidays and the guy said it wouldn't be done till after thanksgiving. Well I guess he didn't want to do it later and got it all done the same day. The parts were still warm when I put them in my truck. fastest turn around I've ever had haha

 

[OregonDMAX]

Dang, my powdercoater had one day turn around unless they didnt have the color... And they had 40 thousand colors

 

[mike diesel]

This shop I'm using is the #1 shop here in Salt Lake. They are slammed with work. Alot of my buddies know the owner and they say they're working all day every day to get parts done. I'd rather wait a week and know it's done right than have a smaller shop here get it done within a day and then have to question the quality.

 

[mike diesel]

Gave the s475 cover a touch up polish. I can do touch ups no problem but I'd much rather pay someone to do a full polish lol

 

[OregonDMAX]

It's definitely worth waiting for. I just got lucky the shop I used was super fast and the best.

 

[56taskforce]

I love that blue sure would go nice with a pair of them SoCal Diesel blue anodized valve covers.

 

[mike diesel]

Just picked up the gt55 housing from polishing.

 

[wrcknkrw]

Looks great Mike. I can't wait to see that blue under the hood.:drool:

 

[chevyburnout1]

Pretty excited to see the end result! I'm partial to blue

 

[new york lly]

That polish looks awesome!!!! The reflection of that retro seat was playing tricks on my eyes though haha:cool2

 

[mike diesel]

I can't wait either. I'm hoping friday they'll have the power done. But not getting my hopes up.

 

[POWDR]

That's the blue I wanted in my engine bay, but with a little more sparkled fleck. Unfortunately they did not get mine right. I did not, however, go direct with a powdercoater myself- lesson learned there. I am pretty excited to see that blue on your set-up, should look great. You are putting together a real nice rig there mike.

Also, funny I came across this thread as I was looking for your build thread to find out what size injectors you are running. So since I am replying here- I will just ask, if you don't mind.

 

[mike diesel]

I am running 175% injectors.

 

[mike diesel]

Ordered new heat wrap and re-wrapped the new hot pipe I made.

 

[mike diesel]

Just snagged a fass 260 titanium as well as a new coolant tank. Still waiting on my powder so I'm probably going to have the tank powdered blue also.

 

[Hot COCOAL]

Coming along nicely:thumb:
I wish I had skills like that, nice work Mike!

Always a treat to see what you're up to

 

[mike diesel]

Hopefully my freakin pipes are done monday.