Okay, getting the heat extractor powder coated this week. I need suggestions on which color.

I painted it silver to see how it would look.
Black Chrome is like gunmetal sort of, it's black but has a deep shine in it. I can get just about any color but I am leaning towards these two.

 

ooooo ahhhh ... damn thats gonna be nice i kinda like the silver look but would be curious to see it in gunmetalish look.

EDIT : Im really feelin the silver though

 

Here is a picture of black chromed part I found.

 

And this one of black chrome I got off of ebay, shows it's reflectivity.

 

The Black is cool... But im really still feelin the silver the most

 

Go silver man, looks rad.

 

I'd stick with silver, looks pretty good. Goes along with your car. Although I'd like to see that Black Chrome also. I voted for #1.

 

Blizzack chrizzome, homie.

 

Silver! I think the black powdercoat will look very similar to the coloring of the stock part and wouldn't be worth the effort.

SC~

 

silver all the way!

 

Okay, it's gone and I went silver.
Hopefully the color match is close, or slightly darker. I think the reason it doesn't look right to me in the pic is that it looks a little on the light side.

Upper heatshield is getting Jet-Hot coated too. It was already starting to lose it's black coating as it was. Hopefully when I find a 2nd car (beater) I will do the manifold/O2 housing and the lower heatshield. IF anyone is wondering, don't try to take the lower heatshield off unless you are planning on yanking the radiator. That is when I gave up last night because I didn't feel like pulling the radiator out at 10:30 at night.

 

Can you recommend the shop you are using for the coating?

 

I am not sure. This is through one of my friends.
I will ask him how they handle regualr customer inquires, etc.
I do not know if they are a public type business or do this stuff for other business. I will let you know.

Oh they do public business. I can get the info if you want it.
The JetHot below cost a normal customer $75. Powder coating is cheaper.

 

Well, I am still working on the heat extractor. It's too thin to glass bead so it may have to be sanded, which is a *****.

In the meantime, I got my heatshield for the manifold back from being JetHot coated.

 

Looks good! At some point everyone is going to have to do something with this part or accept a rusty heat shield right up front in the engine compartment.....