94 cobra Epoxy coat on INSIDE?!?! of intake runners???

[gatorbytes2]

94 cobra Epoxy coat on INSIDE?!?! of intake runners???

Hello all, Upon removal of my 94 upper intake I noticed the epoxy coat was cracking and easily peeling on the INSIDE of the intake runners??!?!?! How in the world do I go about having this removed? acid dipping? If I dont remove it, I have a feeling it will deffinatly end up in the motor (if it hasnt already) I always knew the 94/95 had epoxy paint on the outside, but the INSIDE too? (I have verified its a coating not just carbon buildup) :shrug:

 

[Dano]

Kind of odd ... when I had mine off, to paint it, the ports were clean as a tooth's hound LOL .

Can't see it in this photo, but they were real clean:

 

[slosnake]

94 cobra Epoxy coat on INSIDE?!?! of intake runners???

Hello all, Upon removal of my 94 upper intake I noticed the epoxy coat was cracking and easily peeling on the INSIDE of the intake runners??!?!?! How in the world do I go about having this removed? acid dipping? If I dont remove it, I have a feeling it will deffinatly end up in the motor (if it hasnt already) I always knew the 94/95 had epoxy paint on the outside, but the INSIDE too? (I have verified its a coating not just carbon buildup) :shrug:

Get it extrude honed!! It will clean it up and flow ALOT better!!!

 

[Dano]

When you get done with the ports, here's another idea you might want to try (see the ghost flames?). I lost some of the resolution, but it looked as smoothe as glass ... of course, this upper plenum was on a '98 Cobra:

 

[98 svt]

how would you do ghost flames like that?

 

[STAMPEDE3]

AAAHHHH Dano, The Hissman Paint Mod.
Got to love it.

 

[Dano]

You called it right, Barry ... here's a photo I took just for grins after I painted my upper air plenum and valve covers - it's a label that I trimmed up:

 

[Dano]

how would you do ghost flames like that?

I used to have the instructions in an E-Mail, but lost it after a recent crash.
"HISSMAN" is one of the Moderators in this Forum - check with him. I know it involved quite a bit of masking, and layering of paint colors. The original photos looked just like glass- beautiful!

 

[HISSMAN]

Here is the basics.

Prep everything really well.
Sand till your hand falls off.
Clean everything in an alcohol wash (what I do).
Apply your base coat of black primer.
I used 1/8th inch tape to tape off the flame pattern on both sides.
I then masked off everything but where the flames were going to be.
I then applied two crisp layers of Ford blue where the flames were going to be.
I then just barely hit the edges of the flames with a darker color of blue, sort of a true navy ( I think I left this out in the original instructions).
I then pealed off the masking and the flame tape.
Let it cure for a bit under a heat lamp.
Next I then began the primary paint coat of color shift paint.
I did about 5-6 super thin coats of this. The color shift paint is a clear paint with crystals in it that refract light to a predetermined spectrum of color, so the more layers, the more of an effect you will have. But you do not want it to be to thick, so just use a dusting per coat, and let it cure till it is just barely tacky then apply the next coat.
Once that was done I applied 3 very thin coats of clear.
I had planned to wet sand everything and buff it once I was finished, but the job came out perfectly flat and without a need for wet sanding, so I just buffed it really well and called it a day.

-Jeff

 

[98 svt]

hey that sounds pretty simple. is that how they do ghost flames on everything else? what happens when the main color isn't opaque?

 

[98 svt]

duplicate :bash:

 

[HISSMAN]

hey that sounds pretty simple. is that how they do ghost flames on everything else? what happens when the main color isn't opaque?

If the main color is not semi-transparent then it will not work.

 

[98 svt]

well, i figured that, but how do they do ghost flames?