- Oct 15, 2015
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New [old] guy here.
I have a '93 Cobra I bought new. Six years as a daily driver in the northeast, then a Sunday car, then sat for far too long while other projects intervened. Under the hood is pretty funky looking.
I have all the accessories off as well as the upper and lower intakes.
I'm wondering if anyone has found a paint match for the upper intake on a Cobra. I've searched a number of forums and it appears no one agrees on the paint for the upper.
What I'm looking for might be Cobra specific.
From what I've been able to determine, early model upper intakes were grey that matched the painted valve covers, [Ford Grey], others were natural aluminum.
Cobra's were a grey powder coat, but with almost no metallic, and came in 2 different shades. But, I'm not yet sure if the shade difference was between original Cobra manifolds or aftermarket, [China] manifolds.
I'm also doing a test to identify paint that comes closest to matching what was the bare aluminum on the various brackets, water pump etc.. I have a NOS/ OEM Ford water pump that has a great, natural finish.
I'm going to try and match to that. I tried bead blasting and media blasting and that left everything too white looking and with too much "sparkle".
I'm spraying about 7-8 different paints, including Eastwood's "under hood paints" along with VHT and Por-15 onto cards that were painted first with grey self-etch paint.
I will post the results.
robj
I have a '93 Cobra I bought new. Six years as a daily driver in the northeast, then a Sunday car, then sat for far too long while other projects intervened. Under the hood is pretty funky looking.
I have all the accessories off as well as the upper and lower intakes.
I'm wondering if anyone has found a paint match for the upper intake on a Cobra. I've searched a number of forums and it appears no one agrees on the paint for the upper.
What I'm looking for might be Cobra specific.
From what I've been able to determine, early model upper intakes were grey that matched the painted valve covers, [Ford Grey], others were natural aluminum.
Cobra's were a grey powder coat, but with almost no metallic, and came in 2 different shades. But, I'm not yet sure if the shade difference was between original Cobra manifolds or aftermarket, [China] manifolds.
I'm also doing a test to identify paint that comes closest to matching what was the bare aluminum on the various brackets, water pump etc.. I have a NOS/ OEM Ford water pump that has a great, natural finish.
I'm going to try and match to that. I tried bead blasting and media blasting and that left everything too white looking and with too much "sparkle".
I'm spraying about 7-8 different paints, including Eastwood's "under hood paints" along with VHT and Por-15 onto cards that were painted first with grey self-etch paint.
I will post the results.
robj