Aluminum Intake Spray Paint

[daveh]

Hey Guys,

I'm having my LD340 intake hot tanked and bead blasted.  I want to get some aluminum cast spray paint.  Eastwood has 2 :

#10394Z
#10395Z

Has anyone used these?  Which one would be the correct in finish?  Are there other recomendations?  Thanks

Dave

[the_engineers]

Leave it natural and/or Clear Powder Coating are other options.

Not sure what you mean by "correct"?  This was never a factory intake.

[gkring]

Neither, both of those are cast exhaust manifold paints. For keeping that cast iron look. You are looking for cast aluminum. Out of the Eastwood stuff I would pick
http://www.eastwood.com/ew-aluma-blast-paint-aerosol-12-oz.html
for the intake manifold. I have had just as good of luck using Krylon cast aluminum paint. They also sell one just marked as aluminum paint, but it has too much metal flake and is too shiny, you have to get the cast aluminum to get the right look.

[daveh]

That's kinda what I thought thanks

[Supercuda]

I used Krylon high-temp aluminum paint on an iron intake back in 1987, and the paint has lasted pretty well, still looking pretty decent after all this time. Proper painting technique is probably what did it. The exhaust manifolds that I did at the same time wanted a new coat when they were out back in 2000.

[Cuda54]

You can powder coat it any color you want. You can get the high temp for the manifolds to and it will not burn off. My Friend and I make a big oven out of a old fridge. He bought a powder coat setup and now he can do bike frames or what will fit in the oven. And it was cheap to set up and what comes out looks real good too.  You can do brackets pulleys carb bowls you name it.