Made my own strut tower brace

[95riosnake]

Hey guys,
Some of you might remember me posting a thread a few months ago about needing some project ideas for a welding class I was taking. Well among other projects I did, I made a strut tower brace for my stang. I just finished it up today to the point of primering it and leveling out a few nicks and scratches with body filler. I wanna know your opinions on what color to paint it.

Also, here's a pic (made of 1 1/4" (.095" wall) and 1" (.095" wall) seamless tubing and 3/16" Steel plate.)

 

[Venom351R]

Looks good, I voted black

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

Looks nice.

 

[EpiKk3]

I wish I could weld.. very handy skill to have, but I voted red to match.. the automobiles lookin sharp too

 

[donjohn]

got an engine bay pic? that might help

 

[95riosnake]

got an engine bay pic? that might help

good idea...here's an engine pic guys

 

[super302]

Your car is sweet.....i voted black

 

[sldghmr]

How on earth do you keep that car so clean?

 

[1105]

black

 

[qwick94GT]

Rio Red

 

[stprorolla49]

know what im thinkin dude??.........i really really like that silver on your intake, and i assume you painted that cause the PS pulley and some brackets and **** are the same color.....i think that'd be sick.........either that5 or gloss black

 

[mo_dingo]

metallic silver or glossy black. Either would be bad ass.......red would be too much IMO.
Scott

 

[donjohn]

i think you should just pick one at random. each color would look good.

 

[urban96]

nice intake sorta looks like mine

mines a lil dirty in the pic tho

 

[xr8d302]

i'm the guy who picked silver...it actually looks really good....I did mine the other day when i did my new intake and pulleys and such

 

[95riosnake]

thanks for the suggestions guys. I think I'm gonna pass on red, cuz I am havin a hard time getting a spray can of rio red, basically I can only get it to use with a spray gun...which I dont feel like messing with just for a STB. I think I'm gonna go out on a limb and paint it silver, then if I dont like it, primer it again and paint it black lol.

 

[xr8d302]

It'll look something like this

 

[illwood]

Silver got my vote. Now, how about a close-up of those weld beads so we can see how good you got in class?

 

[cobra dave]

have it powdercoated.

 

[95riosnake]

Silver got my vote. Now, how about a close-up of those weld beads so we can see how good you got in class?

haha, I actually got pretty decent. I'll take some pics of the beads sometime tomorrow if I get a chance.

Cobradave - I was originally gonna have it powdercoated, but I couldn't find a place that powdercoats single items like this around here. I'll paint it for now, and if I find a powdercoater someday, I'll strip it down and get it coated.