33 Coupe Paint 6
7/03/05
There were a few pieces of aluminum
that I wanted to polish so they would look nice against the purple
anodize, so I took them off and fired up the buffing wheel again. The
throttle stop bracket, TPS (throttle position sensor) bracket, throttle
cable fittings and the throttle stop were all treated to some luster.
One thing I did was use a 1/4-20 X 3" long stainless button head
cap screw for the throttle stop in place of the old hex head screw and
I filled in the cap screw area with stainless with my welder. After
welding it, I made it nice and round to keep the shape the button head
screw already had, and then polished it too. All those parts look real nice
now. It's hard to see all those pieces in this shot, partly because
of the flash bouncing off the polished aluminum washing out the picture.
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One other thing I sent off to get
coated was my exhaust system. The place I sent them too is called
JetHot.
JetHot uses a ceramic coating that goes inside and outside of the
tubing. Now coating the exhaust system serves two purpose's. The first
is looks, and I have to say, they came out great. The second is that
JetHot claims that this coating will reduce the outside of the header
tubes up to 50% which means it will reduce the temp of the inside of the
engine compartment by a couple hundred degrees. Now that's some great
news because my engine compartment is very small so this will help a
bunch. The color is called Sterling but you can get other colors if you
want. The coating will withstand up to 1300 degrees F and will add
horsepower by up to 3%. How can it add power you ask? By keeping the
exhaust gas's hot, the gas travels faster which equates to more power as
it gets out of the tubes faster. JetHot can explain it much better than
I can so
go
here for more info. I also had the header adapter done which are
made out of aluminum and go between the head and header tubes.
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As you can see, I sent the entire exhaust system to
get ceramic coated and I'm very happy with the results. The only thing I
didn't send them was the mufflers because there're made out of stainless
steel which means they're not going to rust and now the rest of the exhaust
system won't either. This sure makes a difference on how the whole
exhaust system looks.
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| 7/19/05
I opened the garage the other morning to install
the radiator and liked how the engine looked, so I snapped a quick shot
of it (yeah I'm trip'n, but everyone already knows that). Once the
radiator is bolted up, I won't have this view anymore. If you look
close, you can see the different colors in the paint which means your
seeing the pearl at work.
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