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Posted by: mike373 Jul 24 2007, 04:15 PM

Just in the middle of wire brushing the fan shroud.... It is looking very nice and shiny. I was wondering if any of you have clear coated the fan shroud after polishing it up?? And will clear coat stick well to the material?

Mike

Posted by: Joe Ricard Jul 24 2007, 04:18 PM

POR-15 clear. About the only thing that will stand up to oil vapor puking on it.

You could get it ceramic coated.

I am just goig to POR-15 engine enamel mine Yellow of course.

Posted by: mike373 Jul 24 2007, 05:00 PM

So ..... regular Krylon clear would suck???? I do have por-15....but in black. Hmmmmm....

Mike

Posted by: ptravnic Jul 24 2007, 10:54 PM

I had mine blasted & powder coated clear. If I had to do it again, I'd powder coat it a silver(ish) color.

-pt

Posted by: lotus_65 Jul 25 2007, 06:27 AM

i cleaned mine and rattle-canned it clear. it looks cool, factory style but it's not as easy to clean.

one thing to note, make sure you grind the ground points after coating (and anything else you coat). you want to make sure everything conducts correctly.

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Posted by: 9146986 Jul 25 2007, 07:16 AM

I've bead blasted, cleaned, and then used high temp clear. It worked pretty well for me. You've got to clean and de-grease it good.

Posted by: geniusanthony Jul 25 2007, 09:58 AM

While waiting for parts to get done at the machine shop I used a mouse sander and a dremel to smooth and then polish my shroud and top of engine cases.
Sorry no pics. car is 10000 miles away.
The metal isn't the best with pores and irregular spots here and there
but it looked decent when done.
To final polish and protect I used aluminum polish with a coat of Carnauba(sp) wax after complete.