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After the kind of job you did with the blasting, I would've recommended powdercoating, or at least VHT...

Either way, amazing work. Keep it up.

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:After the kind of job you did with the blasting, I would've recommended powdercoating, or at least VHT...

Either way, amazing work. Keep it up.

Powdercoating would have been sweet but pricey here as I checked into it. What's VHT?

AaronTietje wrote:

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:After the kind of job you did with the blasting, I would've recommended powdercoating, or at least VHT...

Either way, amazing work. Keep it up.

Powdercoating would have been sweet but pricey here as I checked into it. What's VHT?

VHT is a kind of rattle can paint from DupliColor. You apply it like regular paint, and then cook it (you can use a regular oven), so the end product is somewhat in between regular paint and powdercoating.
Just be careful to open all your windows while you're cooking it. That sh1t stinks.

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:

AaronTietje wrote:

Inodoro Pereyra wrote:After the kind of job you did with the blasting, I would've recommended powdercoating, or at least VHT...

Either way, amazing work. Keep it up.

Powdercoating would have been sweet but pricey here as I checked into it. What's VHT?

VHT is a kind of rattle can paint from DupliColor. You apply it like regular paint, and then cook it (you can use a regular oven), so the end product is somewhat in between regular paint and powdercoating.
Just be careful to open all your windows while you're cooking it. That sh1t stinks.

Very cool. I'll have to check that stuff out.

bead blasting seems like it will be awesome because you feel like you're really doing something the proper way...then after about 3 hours you realize that bead blasting sucks. lol

I may have spent too many hours blasting

Yeah, I don't doubt it's tedious... still, knowing your car will be rust free for a long time is worth that tedium, no?

you do it because it is worth it...but it still sucks.

You're doing a great job with your car Aaron. Keep it up.

Bump for updates.. oh and I want to buy your intake! lol

cleaned up those parts really good! tho, the gf would have my nuts on a silver platter if i ever tried spray bombing something in the house lol

Calg_93GS wrote:cleaned up those parts really good! tho, the gf would have my nuts on a silver platter if i ever tried spray bombing something in the house lol

Lets just say it's not the worst I've done. When Julie (wife) and I moved back to NY state we lived at her parents for about 3months while we were closing on our house. Anywho, I decided to do some fiberglass and rosin in the inlaws basement...... Mom-in-law gets head aches that are triggered by smell..... Ooooopppppssssss....... I felt quite dumb after that.

Those blasted parts came out real nice, would love my own blast cabinet... oh well one day!
I remember when I did some paint spraying in the bathroom,lol the extractor fan broke halfway through!
damn it stuck out the whole flat.

youdirtyfox wrote:Those blasted parts came out real nice, would love my own blast cabinet... oh well one day!
I remember when I did some paint spraying in the bathroom,lol the extractor fan broke halfway through!
damn it stuck out the whole flat.

That figures.

I just did some more blasting on Friday. I didn't have time to get a pic of the sub before I put primer on it, but the whole thing looked like brushed aluminum when I was done. Here it is in primer.

I think guys with Obsessive–compulsive disorder build great project cars, great job.

IMACHU2 wrote:I think guys with Obsessive–compulsive disorder build great project cars, great job.

true OCD people spell it CDO... letters are in order... as they should be

You know all that bead blasting must be pretty costly, if only you had an intake you could sell so you could do the rear subframe too....