Raw SS, Steel, & Aluminum

[AllBlkdOut07]

Saw everything powdercoated in the basecoat, the NIC Super Chrome really is the closest powder to chrome on the market. The coil springs really look like chrome. The only thing is the diff cover sicne it was raw aluminum, the transparent copper will look different on the cast areas, which is most of the cover. I may just sell that one and buy a polished one that was more $. Or I could just make the diff cover black which will cost me no more $.

1. Get the Polished diff cover and pcoat with transparent copper. (will it stand out too much?)
2. Black fine texture powdercoat. (blend in and look cleaner)

What's the consensus?

 

[daddy]

ptew

 

[AllBlkdOut07]

I beg your pardon?

 

[buRRp]

I would say 2. If you did the copper it would stand out to much imo.

 

[Nick The Great]

Yeah I think the copper could look odd.

 

[AllBlkdOut07]

Just decided on trying something different from the norm.

Instead of leaving the fin edges polished like most finned diff covers, I'm going to have the fin edges in copper, the rest of the diff cover in the black texture.

This way I still get a hint of the copper accent color but it's not overkill. The tricky part is, shooting the copper on the fins, masking them off with plastic pcoat tape, them putting it in the oven again with the mask tape over the fresh powder. When you heat the cover again for the black fine texture you run the chance of damaging the copper pcoat when the tape is pulled off, if you time it wrong.

Worst case scenario, I have to sand down the fins to bare aluminum, polish them then have them paint matched in the copper.

 

[buRRp]

I like that idea.

 

[daddy]

I beg your pardon?

Opshun Ptew.

 

[Boilerup15]

Done yet?

 

[agjake11]

Gonna look sick