Arts and crafts with my LS1 Trans Am; a pictorial adventure

NYSpeed Automotive
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I have a FAST 90/90 intake manifold on my TA. These are proven to add 20+ rwhp on a setup like mine (i have seen dyno sheets of cam only cars gaining 20-25rwhp and H/C cars over 30 rwhp)

This is how it came:

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It is impossible to keep clean, and i am very anal about the under hood of my car. It is kind of bland looking and kinda blends with the blah paint under the hood:
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g259/stanggang1892/mine1.jpg

I stared by sanding it down. This eliminated all the texture of it (bumpy) which i thought looked like crap.

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After giving it a good cleaning, i gave it a few coats of adhesion promoter, followed by coats of Charcoal Gray Metallic.
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Following that, it got a few coats of clear and i used a sponge brush to color in the FAST logo as it was when new, here is the finished product:

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And together mocked up with the other 3 pieces of the manifold:
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g259/stanggang1892/4-5.jpg

All in all it came out well i think, in person it looks professional which surprised me. Hopefully it doesn’t blow in half the first time i hit the bottle! :roflpicard:

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looks good

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Cosmetic mod you must be hanging out with Pat to much…

Looks good :tup:

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looks great man…

never liked that dull grey color they came in

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HAHA truth, hes the one that gave me the idea.

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deff looks good jim :tup:

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so it looks like you had enough time to go to jury duty, study AND paint your intake? lol

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My number group didnt get called yet! lol… i felt like shit last night, went to bed at 7pm, woke up at 4am, started playing with that, took a break to get and then put up my Christmas tree, studied a bit, then finished the manifold… keepin busy!

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ricer.

i think im gonna paint mine pink

omg! pink valve cover and intake manifold! im doin it.

urs looks nice tho, if u didnt paint the FAST logo it would look :snky: stock kinda

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nothing wrong with appearance mods!

not bad foo

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is that composite?

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looks like it

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Much better. :tup:

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i belive they are FRP (fiber reinforced plastic)

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thanks for telling me what FRP stands for. :stuck_out_tongue:

that’s what it looked like. It’s probably ultem1000 or something like that.

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nice mod :tup: deffinately looks better than the textured off gray.

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Looks very good i wouldnt have thought you could pull this off so well! j/k good job cant wait to see it on the car.

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Looks nice.

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and you had no faith! :meh:

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now i have ot paint mine when i get it…damnit.