MY1PATH Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 (edited) I Took the dirty corroded peeling intake cover off of my Infiniti M30. cleaned it up and sanded off the "V6 3000" because it may or may not be going on a 3300 in the future. Painted it Red Painted the center Semi Gloss Black Polished the tops of the fins and letters, This is where it looked its best! Clear coated over the whole thing to enhance shine protect the polished aluminum. The picture robs some detail but the solvent based Clear made slight impressions wherever there was a pit or micro pore in the polished casting. If I had to do it again I would use an epoxy based paint system to get better results over the polished aluminum casting. Edited April 11, 2012 by MY1PATH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nefarious Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Looks ballin man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabama_lowlife Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 nice work, that looks really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der_Vier Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Nice job on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Good Job, looks much better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Bright and shiny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRich Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 (edited) Good job! I'm planning to sand the 3.0 off my intake before I install it too. So where you putting this cover? I thought you were using a pathfinder intake. James Edited April 13, 2012 by JamesRich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo94 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Did you cook it to speed up the drying process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 +15 horsepower!! B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 +15 horsepower!! B You forgot the street cred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
918pathy Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 Very nice!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY1PATH Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 Did you cook it to speed up the drying process? No I cooked it after washing it to get all the water/ soap/ solvent out of the porous aluminum casting. I WOULD NOT cook VHT without a ventilated heater (and actual dust controlled convection heating booth made for drying paint) because the Volatile out gas content is too high to be safe.(in other words if you heat this stuff in a household oven it will release toxic vapors that at are harmful to your health.) I did however use the range hood as sufficient ventilation for room temperature cure because outside is too cold for paint to dry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 looks pretty good i assume this fits the pathfinder intake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MY1PATH Posted April 13, 2012 Author Share Posted April 13, 2012 looks pretty good i assume this fits the pathfinder intake It does not, unless you have a car style manifold like the one found in Kingmans pathy, z31, m30, SOME Maximas , s12's etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tungsten Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Weird, it looked like it did. Aren't you using the pathfinder intake anyway for your swap? Or is this cover for another car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahardb0dy Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Looks good, I did similiar on my Sentra valve cover: before: after: grey wheel paint, with clear coat, polished the letters before paint than taped them off, than the clear, did the exhaust mainifold shield as well used allen head bolts with the red anodized bolt caps, they have matching covers for the caps too but I did not put them on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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