85 Vette black so looking for suggestions on what color to powder oat runners and plenum or leave stock?
Which color to powder coat runners and plenum
- Thread starter Nelson84
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The car is all black, correct? There is no red or blue or green trim or anything like that? What color is the interior? Maybe that would be an option?
I guess if everything is black........ Maybe a nice gloss black, or maybe start doing red accents?
I guess if everything is black........ Maybe a nice gloss black, or maybe start doing red accents?
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Charcoal black interior and all black on the exterior.
I almost pulled the trigger on some large tube runners yesterday. But if I bought them then I would have to buy:
Heads, rockers, intake, headers, throttle body, the list goes on. I am going to leave it basically stock. These cars are getting old, I am finding it cool to see the original parts still on these. I just want to clean it up a bit maybe add some color under the hood. I ordered red 10mm plug wires, that should make it look better.
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Im replacing valve covers with black ones and red plug wires and will clean everything.
That is the soon to be painted famous ecklers rear hatch wing, no longer in production.
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Not sure how that black 60's Vette got in there I took a pic of it at a corvette show.
Hahaha. Mystery shot! Nice car even if it wasn't supposed to get in the thread.
Looking forward to seeing that wing mounted!
Looking forward to seeing that wing mounted!
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Why not just leave it polished? I have seen it done on Camaros of the same generation and it looks pretty good. I can't remember off-hand what the guys were using to coat it though. But I don't think it was anything like clear coat. I seem to remember it was some kind of metal polish.
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You mean like make it chrome look like a mirror? I was looking at that on YouTube.
Polished would be really nice but as I am lazy by nature, that sounds like a lot of work! 
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It doesn't come out quite looking like chrome but it does stand out nicely
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What's wrong with the valve covers? Sure they are showing a little patina, it's the rat rod look. Actually I ordered a set of used original valve covers painted black from eBay will install them soon. Should look good soon.
If you are going with red wires you could do black plenum and runners with red in the valleys on top of the plenum back to the distributor cover then bleed it out to the wires.......
Im replacing valve covers with black ones and red plug wires and will clean everything.
That is the soon to be painted famous ecklers rear hatch wing, no longer in production.
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I'm going with shiny black plenum and runners, and flat black valve covers. Just to keep you groupies up to date.