Intake manifold painting?

[Guest]

Well my once pretty red intake manifold has shed all its red glory. Time for a paint i think..... But how? Do i need new gaskets once ive taken it off? Any issues i might run into? Any help would be great.

[Guest boostcut]

get some new gaskets and just rip into it man.... thats what im doin tmorow nite.

[Old Skool Subbie]

New gaskets would be best. You dont really want to reuse them then have them leak and have to take the manifold off again.

[Joker]

there was a good how-to by Schumacer.. ask nicely and it may be reposted..

[Stoffa]

make sure subaru have the throttle body gasket in stock before you pull it apart, mine was ex japan and took 2 weeks. HPC can reproduce the crinkle finish and its a thermal barrier paint too

[Scoobydoo]

If you wanted to get some really flash gaskets, you can get some thermal ones that will keep the intake temperatures right down, but they pretty expensive.

[funkytown]

 Stoffa said:

make sure subaru have the throttle body gasket in stock before you pull it apart, mine was ex japan and took 2 weeks. HPC can reproduce the crinkle finish and its a thermal barrier paint too

and TPS.. While your at it.

Just remove everything attached to the manifold and take it out.. Water feed to the turbo leaks water and is a bitch as you pull out the drivers side.. as the water wants to get into the heads.. (UNCOOL)!

While your doing it.. do your split rail.. Easy as pie to do seeing as you have the manifold out.

Re painting get it acid dipped or sand blasted.. and then powdercoated and your away laughing.. mine cost $50 for whole treatment

[ReubenH]

Make sure you shop around. I chose to get mine powder coated so the red wouldn't flake off in future again, but i couldn't be arsed finding a place that could do matte red. They could do some other colours in matte, but not the red i wanted. Just if you're pickey bout that sorta thing. It cost $60 to get done btw, they did do a good job.

[Guest]

If you look hard enough you can buy the crinkle red paint in a can.

[Ryan]

If you want me to acid dip your intake manifold to clean it right back to the alloy I'll do it for work for fdree if you send it up here

[Stoffa]

 funkytown']

[quote name='Stoffa said:

make sure subaru have the throttle body gasket in stock before you pull it apart, mine was ex japan and took 2 weeks. HPC can reproduce the crinkle finish and its a thermal barrier paint too

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Re painting get it acid dipped or sand blasted.. and then powdercoated and your away laughing.. mine cost $50 for whole treatment

sand blasting isn't good for powder coating, any bits of sand that end up pitted into the metal can react with the powder coat. If you take the whole thing to the powder coaters they'll strip it for you

[Guest]

Cheers guys. Might have a crack at it ay. Needs to be cleaned up. looks horrible with flaky paint on it.