Undercarriage details., Maybe a nailed topic Pat? you were looking for new stuff. Options

[tod914]

Couple questions, what's the finish on the engine bar? Painted or bare metal? Next would be the color of the blower hoses from the exchangers to the ducts; orange or black? What is the closest high temp paint you found to match the factory color of the exhaust system; muffler & exchangers? The branch pieces; I seen grey and black. What year did they change; mid 73?
Just as a side note, I found a Powder company that will make an exact match of the factory tin color. $100 to develope, $15-$25 per pound with an intial minimum of 5 lbs. If there is enough intested to cover the development cost of the color match, I'd be happy to send in the tin for matching. Say 4 or 5 people to keep the cost down.

[Tom_T]

Couple questions, what's the finish on the engine bar? Painted or bare metal? Next would be the color of the blower hoses from the exchangers to the ducts; orange or black? What is the closest high temp paint you found to match the factory color of the exhaust system; muffler & exchangers? The branch pieces; I seen grey and black. What year did they change; mid 73?
Just as a side note, I found a Powder company that will make an exact match of the factory tin color. $100 to develope, $15-$25 per pound with an intial minimum of 5 lbs. If there is enough intested to cover the development cost of the color match, I'd be happy to send in the tin for matching. Say 4 or 5 people to keep the cost down.

Ditto on how you're prepping? Also, SS HE's won't take the paint as well. Wurth Zinc I thought was too silver undertone, but maybe I'm recalling wrong. There was also a 356 Resto website (whose bookmark I lost when the replaced my harddrive) which sold the Porsche exhaust system color grey in HT paint.

My 73 engine bar has black paint on it - where it's not surface rusted that is! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

IIRC the HE tubes were/are brown Kraft paper crap, & HE ducts themselves were grey like the stock HE's & muffler color. Someone else posted a flat/satin grey HE paint match for HE's & Mufflers at another post under O&E.

Also look at Sahara Steve's post pix from the underside, as his VIN is late 73 & close to yours IIRC.

If not for the distance & the fact that my drivetrain is nowhere near ready to pull off tin yet - I'd go for the PC deal - but maybe you could post the mix source here, for the rest of us to try to source locally.