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Help me pick an intake manifold color!

6.8K views 23 replies 15 participants last post by  turbocon86  
#1 · (Edited)
Help me pick an intake manifold color! UPDATE -- COATED!!!

I was thinking a bright, glossy silver to sort of look like enhanced oem...what does everyone else think? The motor mount brackets Im going to take off and do satin to match the valvecover. If anyone has some pics of other saabs that have been done throw em up, I didnt find too many outside of a blue one.

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Well I got them back today...theyre gorgeous!

Before/sandblasted/powdercoated
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Mocked Up
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Separate
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Close up, really high gloss finish
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Welded over TB bungs
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#12 ·
Parts are all sandblasted, I just need to do a little more on the manifold and scrape down some gasket I didn't get off the first time. I shoulda took before/after of inside the throttle body, really cleaned up nice. Im just going to powdercoat right over the tb springs, if it cracks off then so be it.

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#17 ·
I did texture black like the valve cover for my viggen intake manifold.. It just blends in.

Another option might be red to match the DI but that is a hard challenge, I tried to match it for a couple customers, never got close enough to be happy.

Either way the thermal insulation from the polymer coating will at at least .0002% peak power.