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i painted my intake on my lunch break at work, its pretty sick now and hopefully ill get it on the car this weekend.
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the sand blasters at my school are both broke so i just went over it with scotchbite and 180 sand paper and it looks alrite for now. i mine clear coat it b4 i put it on also
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are you going to paint the lettering and grooves a contrasting color on the plate?
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i dont know yet i have the exploder 5.0 v8 name plate as well im gonna play with it a little see wat looks good wen i put the intake on the car.
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Ive been thinking of doing the same thing to my performer intake. What kinda paint did you use on it? Looks good!
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just paint the whole 5.0 plate and scuff the top with light sandpaper and all the raised stuff will be silver
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i used high temp engine paint. put it on a cardboard box and did it on the side walk outside my work on my lunch break lol
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what you mean, paint it or find the intake at the junkyard?
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i would clear coat it, looks better and will last longer
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would you have any kind of heat dissapation issues with that?
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i dont think so. but if he went and did that to his valve covers, yes.
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i painted my intake to but i painted it silver i think you should do the 5.0 name plate and the v8 thing it would look pretty sick man it looks awesome right now though dude keep up the work .....
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well aluminum is a poress material thats why its disapated in the first place so painting it fills the pores and doesnt make it disapate heat as well but painted aluminum is a hell of alot better than cast iron.
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yeah the cast iron would be way worse than painted aluminum
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not too long, i did a couple quick coats while i was at work.
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i liked mine in bright red with black plate and the lettering was silver...now its pealing 
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