70 Blazer Frame Off

[DeadheadNM]

Good deal. Are you going to paint the motor Chevy orange or keep as is? Tomorrow I can pick up my freshly powder coated 15 x 8 steel wheels for the GMC. Seeing your valve covers tempts me to inquire about the cost of orange powder coating a spare set that I have - may be overkill.

[IronCanine]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Good deal. Are you going to paint the motor Chevy orange or keep as is? Tomorrow I can pick up my freshly powder coated 15 x 8 steel wheels for the GMC. Seeing your valve covers tempts me to inquire about the cost of orange powder coating a spare set that I have - may be overkill.

Definitely going to be orange. Going to try to make it look as factory as possible, hence the OE valve covers. Going to paint it with spark plug wire brackets, Water pump and harmonic balancer on. Pulleys, brackets, breather, heat stove tube, top radiator hose powder coated black. Manifolds ceramic coated cast gray. Heat riser tins ceramic coated silver.

[DeadheadNM]

Originally Posted by IronCanine

Definitely going to be orange. Going to try to make it look as factory as possible, hence the OE valve covers. Going to paint it with spark plug wire brackets, Water pump and harmonic balancer on. Pulleys, brackets, breather, heat stove tube, top radiator hose powder coated black. Manifolds ceramic coated cast gray. Heat riser tins ceramic coated silver.

Great plan! Brilliant idea coating the heat riser tins btw. The rubber oil filler hole plug was also painted orange so might as well shoot that too.

Bummer about the bent wheel but at least you have other options. The powder coated set on my K5 now I also used briefly on my old K10 - I have to beat them off the front hubs for dismounting. They slip on fine and the rears on/off no sweat but up front a real tight bond between the wheels and the hubs develops. If you don't mind me asking, what is cost for one wheel in GA? In NM I've paid $65 and $90 per wheel, here it cost $65 (and no sales tax).

[IronCanine]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

If you don't mind me asking, what is cost for one wheel in GA? In NM I've paid $65 and $90 per wheel, here it cost $65 (and no sales tax).

I don't remember about the individual wheels. I think when I first called for a quote it was about 50-60 per wheel, but I could be off. I don't mind telling you that for the whole lot it was $1600. That's sandblasting frame and all prep. We powder coated: Frame, core support, engine brackets and pulleys, radiator tube, breather, heat riser tube, wheels, removable top brackets, oil filler tube, misc frame/radiator bracketry, front wheel dust shields.
ceramic coated: exhaust manifolds, heat riser tins

...and we had five colors. Gray powder coat for dust shield, white for wheels/top brackets, cast gray ceramic for exhaust, silver ceramic for hr tins, and semi gloss black for everything else.

They missed the color on the tins which they're correcting and I would really be surprised if they invoiced me to re-shoot that sixth rim. They're a local outfit, but I'd recommend them highly.

[IronCanine]

Originally Posted by DeadheadNM

Tomorrow I can pick up my freshly powder coated 15 x 8 steel wheels for the GMC.

Funny thing...I ended up with 9 15x6 rims. Two turned out to be clearly incorrect. That left seven with the powder coater. I told him to pick out the best 5 and shoot them. He shot 6, but one didn't turn out to suit him. I took the five he had and got tires mounted. The tire shop called and said, "hey you know one of these rims is bent right?"

...so for the time being it's the spare and they'll re-shoot that sixth one when they get some more white stuff in to do.