What color should I use?

[PoorManQ45]

As you know, I am polishing up the Upper Plenum. I just removed the Infiniti badge and polished it up. But now I have a problem.

The Infiniti logo looks duller then the plenum and the logo surround. I am thinking about either painting the Logo surround or the logo itself.

Any suggestions as to what color I should use?

I am thinking that a Black Infiniti Logo might look cool. Or, I could paint the Logo surround black, and Chrome paint the Logo itself.

What do you guys/girls think?

P.S. I would post a picture of it, but I don't have a digital camera

[AZhitman]

Flat black.

[PoorManQ45]

Wow, that was a quick response!

What should I paint flat black? The Logo, or the logo surround?

[AZhitman]

Logo surround.

Should be relatively easy with a fine brush and a steady hand.

[PoorManQ45]

Also, what do you think about painting the whole plenum? Maybe in Chrome paint.

[PoorManQ45]

Logo surround.

Should be relatively easy with a fine brush and a steady hand.

I'm thinking that I could just tape over the logo itself, and use a spray paint can. That would work too, right?

[AZhitman]

No such thing as "chrome paint". That crap in a can turns out silver. Bleh.

Even if there was such a thing, the heat would destroy it.

You're halfway into this project, don't "cheap out" now.

Get off the computer, you got some polishing to do boy!

[PoorManQ45]

No such thing as "chrome paint". That crap in a can turns out silver. Bleh.

Even if there was such a thing, the heat would destroy it.

You're halfway into this project, don't "cheap out" now.

Get off the computer, you got some polishing to do boy!

Isn't there a "chrome" paint for engine blocks or something like that?

What are you talking about, "Don't cheap out"? I havn't spent any money yet . I just had the tools laying around the garage .

Get off the computer? heck no . It's too dalk out. remember, Arizona is 3 hours behind Florida

[AZhitman]

No.

Alsa Corp has JUST released a spray product that is VERY similar to chrome, but it'd cost more than your car.

Incidentally, they've also released a product that can be sprayed on and then polished, giving the appearance of polished aluminum - was seen covering ENTIRE cars at the SEMA show in Vegas. Done imporperly, it looks terrible (actually, it's quite tacky IMO).

Don't cheap out on time or money - You've started this project, don't "cheap out" on your commitment.

[Trung1130]

If you are in Florida, I am pretty sure they have shops that do powder coating on engine parts around you. My friend sent his MKIV Supra Turbo pipes down to Florida to get powder coated. I can found out the shop that did it. I did like your suggestion sand blasting the top of the plenum.

[Q451990]

I saw a polished plenum years ago (late 90's) at T3. I think it's basically a process of sanding the texture off, and then progressively selecting finer sand paper, then rubbing compound, then polishing compound, etc... I'm not sure if it was clear coated after that to keep the corrosion down or not.

As far as the Infiniti Logo - I've had some luck on raised objects like that painting the whole thing and then carefully sanding the paint off of the raised portion. Never tried it with the plenum logo, but with other things...

Heath

[Trung1130]

Just surfing the net, found another company with a price list.

http://gulfcoastpowder.com/Pricing_info.html

[Jesda]

Greg:

Is that the product used on that chrome-looking BMW 3-series?

[PoorManQ45]

What do you guys think about the idea of spray painting the whole plenum black? Would it look too out of place?

Wouldn't sand blasting the plenum leave it pitted?

[pito11213]

I think if you are going into painting the plenum then you should look into color coordinating the entire engine bay. Paint the plenum red with a black and gold logo. Then paint the valve covers red. Then get some colored wire loom and go crazy.

[Trung1130]

You will be using heat retardant paint right? Also, if you do the powdercoating, they will only sand blast the the outer part of the plenum and the pitting allows the powdercoating a better adhesion to the surface and the finish will still be a nice polished look if desired.