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Old Feb 6, 2013 | 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by CCA4
I want a carbonio but I refuse to pay what they're asking for one. Looks soooooo clean.
Don't they? I paid ~$150 for mine used.

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Don't know why my pics got auto resized so small, never seen that happen before. *Shrug
 
Old Feb 6, 2013 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by BaseDrifter
Don't know why my pics got auto resized so small, never seen that happen before. *Shrug
I think that's a new formatting thing with vBulletin. They've been doing it on Audizine for as long as I can remember, just not quite as small. It's to keep people from embedding 1600x1200px pictures and ******* up the CSS on the rest of the page.
 
Old Feb 6, 2013 | 02:20 PM
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CCA4, so nice...
 
Old Feb 6, 2013 | 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted by meloman
Heres what mine looked like before I went BT
What did you use to coat your VC? I'm trying to decide the route I want to go with mine. Was considering looking into powder coating it a matte/krinkle blue close to my paint color.
 
Old Feb 7, 2013 | 07:32 AM
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OH PS i can powdercoat things any color ....that eastwood offers....which is more than one might think.

Ill snap a pic of my 2.8 tucked and started to shave bay today!
 
Old Feb 7, 2013 | 09:26 AM
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I'm working on polishing a spare intake mani and valve cover to put on this summer. I told myself I would never polish anything ever again after my last catch can, but it just looks so good!
 
Old Feb 7, 2013 | 12:50 PM
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I completely love that sandy yellow/brown valve cover, plus the chrome intakes. Wanted to do chrome but couldn't figure out how so went cheap and painted it ford red. The carbonio intake is not worth 400$. Bought mine used like the other guy, it just looks cool and makes a cool noise (diverter valve). I wanted to build a heat shield wall thing like you guys have but again no tutorial and I didn't want to mess it up. Heatshields are baller looking in my opinion I like the black and blue engine bay a ton but not sure how i feel about mr. greens, still cool. More Pics!!!
 
Old Feb 7, 2013 | 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by MrSnickelsnizer
I completely love that sandy yellow/brown valve cover, plus the chrome intakes. Wanted to do chrome but couldn't figure out how so went cheap and painted it ford red.
Not chrome, polished. The intake mani, valve cover, throttle body, and many other parts on these cars are cast aluminum and prime candidates for polishing. It's a pain in the dick and requires lots of attention to keep it looking nice, but when it looks nice it looks NIIIIIICE
 
Old Feb 7, 2013 | 02:30 PM
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Jon, I may have to hit you up about that powder coating.

I've been working on mine since 2010 (I was out of the country for almost a year so I blame it on that.)

I'm almost done, I've got all the parts to do the swap. I just need to figure out how I'm finishing it...I think I'm going to get it beadblasted to even out the finish. I'd prefer more of a brushed aluminum finish or even something very close to what I've got right now. I don't want a mirror polish.

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Old Feb 7, 2013 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by BaseDrifter
I'd prefer more of a brushed aluminum finish or even something very close to what I've got right now. I don't want a mirror polish
Kind of what I'm going to shoot for. I just want to get rid of all of the ugly casting marks and seams and random posts and bolt holes that I don't need anymore. Clean things up a little.
 



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