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[Domino81]

w00t! :happydance:

[Mike Baxter]

I love MBX <3! Mine are going out very soon!

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[TurboSE]

Mike, AIM always f's up when we try and chat...anyhow...how much to do a front VC?

Can you PC two colors? If so, I'd like a VC, PC'd in black...with the plug wire relief done in gold (sounds rice, but it fits my overall color scheme).

If this is possible, Travis Williams has a "Mazda" VC for $30, in the interest of saving money since you're closer, could I have it shipped to you...you PC it and send it to me?

[Fastest95PGT]

Yes, we take them apart and then re-assemble them, the same goes for alternators and TB's etc.....

The toughts of having my 186k mile alternator torn apart and powder coated so gave me wood... (lol, it'd probably never work again tho once put back together without it's oily goodness)

Valve Covers we can do at $50 each..... The cleaner you can get them before sending them, the better. Intake Manifolds we can do at $75 each.

However, $50 per VC is outrageous <sp> (sorry Mike). Taping seems to be the primary concern as to how much PC should cost as we all know the powder is pennies but the labor of prepping is what costs $$. I know that the place which does my work would have done my pair for $40 (sandblasting included). I don't mean to lowball your pricing, but a VC is barely any work at all.. and the IM's simple too (even with the plastic for the VRIS plate areas on the outside as they don't melt in a PC temperature oven ). I think the most expensive parts of all my PC needs were my fuel rails.

[CMCprobe]

sounds like Eastwood is your powder supplier, as that is who I use an thats is there color line up

[Mike Baxter]

sounds like Eastwood is your powder supplier, as that is who I use an thats is there color line up

We also use Columbia and a few others for alternative crazy colors

[Mike Baxter]

Mike, AIM always f's up when we try and chat...anyhow...how much to do a front VC?

Can you PC two colors? If so, I'd like a VC, PC'd in black...with the plug wire relief done in gold (sounds rice, but it fits my overall color scheme).

If this is possible, Travis Williams has a "Mazda" VC for $30, in the interest of saving money since you're closer, could I have it shipped to you...you PC it and send it to me?

This would be a process that would double the amount of time and almost price to do a single valve cover. It can be done to answer your question correctly. I spoke with Travis and he said he could bring me the valve cover, so that would be no problem.

[BarryG]

So Mike, what is your turnaround time like?
Barry

[Mike Baxter]

So Mike, what is your turnaround time like?
Barry

Great question, Once the item(s) arrive, they are stripped, cleaned and polished on the 1st day, masked, coated and cured on the 2nd day and generally ship on the third day provided there are no problems in the coating.

This also depends on the quality and condition of the item that is sent to us.
The cleaner the item is that is sent to us, the less time in prepping it for powdercoating!

[ShadowSE]

can you do plastics? (i've heard some places can...) and if so, i have 2 plastic pieces I can send you, along with one intake tube (metal)...

[Mike Baxter]

can you do plastics? (i've heard some places can...) and if so, i have 2 plastic pieces I can send you, along with one intake tube (metal)...

Plastics cant be done at this time due to the extreme temperatures of the curing process. They are however working on lower temperature powders at this time we are told.

[Fastest95PGT]

What kinds of temps are you guys running?

Standard temperatures used on my IM when doing it up silver vein (flawless) didn't melt my VRIS plastic pieces (those round ones sticking off the back of the IM). And yes, some powder coat stuck to them (not jumped across from the IM, but completely separately). Obviously you can't do rubber hoses, but a hardened plastic that someone wants to take the risk on probably wouldn't hurt.

[Mike Baxter]

What kinds of temps are you guys running?

Standard temperatures used on my IM when doing it up silver vein (flawless) didn't melt my VRIS plastic pieces (those round ones sticking off the back of the IM). And yes, some powder coat stuck to them (not jumped across from the IM, but completely separately). Obviously you can't do rubber hoses, but a hardened plastic that someone wants to take the risk on probably wouldn't hurt.

Between 350 and 400 degrees depending on the powder being used. What a mess that could turn into. I can only see this hurting our business and reputation by sending a pretty blob of plastic back to our customer

Hopefully they will come out with lower temp powders just for this purpose. In the meantime, i think spray paint is your best resource for plastics.

[ShadowSE]

how much would it be to do just an intake pipe (like a 3inch diameter 16 inch pipe with a few vacuum ports on it) in a silver matching my VC?

[BarryG]

Is there a link out there to see the colors you've mentioned?
BTW, I'm damned interested. I have a project car that's taken apart just begging to be colored.
Barry