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post Feb 10 2015, 03:39 PM
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Trying to work out some of Cairo's smaller stuff. While getting a bunch of parts together to strip and re zinc, I noticed a shiny spot on his flapper boxes. It appears they were originally silver zinc, not painted ? Is this correct ? I know 911's were red/orange. I have the correct paint for them, and assumed 914-6 would have either been black, grey, or the same orange as the 911 since they went through the same plant. But I never would have expected them to be silver zinc'ed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Or were Michaels put on as bare steel (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

FWIW I see NO traces of any paint anywhere, and the raw metal that is visible is definitely not a sandblasted finish as if someone stripped them and didn't recoat. It is nice shiny metal with the press forming marks still on it


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post Feb 10 2015, 04:52 PM
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Maybe they were replacements for the origional set?
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post Feb 11 2015, 08:44 PM
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OEM were black.
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post Feb 12 2015, 12:24 AM
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Yep, semi gloss black is the way I remember them. Only shiny parts were the linkage the hinge pin.
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post Mar 2 2015, 09:07 PM
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One NOS heat exchanger and six, 6 cyl. flapper boxes say "grey"
4 cyl. flappers were black.
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post Mar 2 2015, 09:37 PM
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Indeed grey as Rory says, I too have had NOS ones.
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post Mar 2 2015, 09:42 PM
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post Mar 6 2015, 08:33 AM
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Can they be powder coated and still operate correctly? BTW, I am pretty sure they are original to the car.
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post Mar 7 2015, 07:18 AM
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QUOTE(Cairo94507 @ Mar 6 2015, 06:33 AM) *

Can they be powder coated and still operate correctly? BTW, I am pretty sure they are original to the car.

I wouldn't. I'll glass bead them bare, epoxy prime and use an industrial grey on top. It'll be almost as good as powder without the mil build and possible issue of getting into the pin location keeping it form pivoting
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post Mar 8 2015, 07:33 AM
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I kind of figured powder coating would be to thick. Sounds good.
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post Jul 24 2015, 07:14 AM
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Not sure about the gray for six boxes. I had a NOS set I put on my car and they were semi-gloss or satin black. Still had the factory part stickers on them. Heat exchangers were gray.
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post Jul 24 2015, 08:18 AM
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I used a high temp silver gray from Eastwood that looked good. Not concours perfect though.
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post Jul 24 2015, 05:48 PM
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QUOTE(Peashooter @ Jul 24 2015, 07:14 AM) *

Not sure about the gray for six boxes. I had a NOS set I put on my car and they were semi-gloss or satin black. Still had the factory part stickers on them. Heat exchangers were gray.

Satin black, like on many parts down under, is correct. Someone got to them before you!
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