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liljoejoe54
Founding Member
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3766
 |  Subject: Re: Painting throttle body  25th June 2009, 9:10 pm | |
| I just picked up a can of gloss black 500* engine paint and 500* gloss clear coat. I got them both at Pep-Boys for about $6 a can. If I dont have work on Saturday then im gonna give it a go. |
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Fidostudio
CAMM Pro
Location: Mt. Prospect
Posts: 770
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 4:35 pm | |
| Can you spray this stuff in the car or do you have to take it all out? |
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liljoejoe54
Founding Member
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3766
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 4:48 pm | |
| | Fidostudio wrote: | | Can you spray this stuff in the car or do you have to take it all out? |
Take it all out. Otherwise you are going to get overspray everywhere. |
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Fidostudio
CAMM Pro
Location: Mt. Prospect
Posts: 770
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 4:50 pm | |
| I know it was a stupid question but had to ask. I don't know enough about engines to start taking stuff out. Oh well |
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liljoejoe54
Founding Member
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3766
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 5:16 pm | |
| | Fidostudio wrote: | | I know it was a stupid question but had to ask. I don't know enough about engines to start taking stuff out. Oh well |
The throttle body is actually very easy to remove. You will have to remove your airbox first then disconnect the harness from the throttle body and remove the 4 bolts that are holding the throttle body on. You will have to cover the electrical connector so what I did was take a rubber glove and cut the thumb off and put it over the connector and secured it with a rubber band. Also take up the throttle plate so you dont get that covered either. |
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cjresto
CAMM Member
Location: Tinley Park
Posts: 174
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 5:25 pm | |
| I know this post is a year old. How has yours held up over time? |
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liljoejoe54
Founding Member
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3766
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 5:45 pm | |
| | cjresto wrote: | | I know this post is a year old. How has yours held up over time? |
If you are talking to me, my throttle body has held up pretty damn good. It looks exactly how it did the day I painted it. I went with the duplicolor 500* engine paint/primer and clear coat. |
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Shawn1112
Founding Member
Location: Hater Proof
Posts: 8638
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 6:09 pm | |
| Mine is also great!
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Moparcharger06
CAMM Member
Location: Hainesville, IL
Posts: 1541
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 14th July 2010, 7:48 pm | |
| DO NOT USE Rustoleum paint, the clear will turn yellow, TRUST ME. My throttle body though was the only part that didn't yellow, but I wouldn't take nay chances. I'm gonna have to re-do it all again over the winter. I polished my valve covers & other stuff, the only problem I had was doing my throttle body, there is ALOT of TINY nooks I couldn't get to, so I polished parts of it and painted some others... here's a pic  |
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tigerray24
CAMM Rookie
Location: carol stream
Posts: 19
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 16th July 2010, 5:32 pm | |
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if you are looking to polish your t-body , i do polishing or if you want to powder coat it that can be done . to powder coat this item you are only looking at maybe $35.00 over and done , if i polish it you are looking at about $ 90.00 and it will look like chrome . if any of you have seen my bat , it looks like chrome .
you can get me at the show this weekend and we can talk .
thanks tiger ray
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Shawn1112
Founding Member
Location: Hater Proof
Posts: 8638
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 16th July 2010, 5:46 pm | |
| I might take you up on the powder coating of the tb
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liljoejoe54
Founding Member
Location: Chicago
Posts: 3766
| | Subject: Re: Painting throttle body 16th July 2010, 5:50 pm | |
| Just a heads up, the whole thing cant be powdercoated because one side of it has a big plastic cover. The rest would look great though and Ray does some good work. |
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