'65 aluminum intake manifold

[Barry K.]

hi all
ok, I needed to get my intake cleaned up from 40 years of dirt, grime, and fuel stains. I tried cleaning it various ways by hand with no luck so I ended up glass bead blasting it today. I did it at the lowest possible pressure that would achieve the results and it came out looking great.
Now the question is what to do with it.
Do I understand correctly that on the SHP motors with the aluminum manifolds that they only had silver paint on the sides by the hold down bolts from overspray or was the entire manifold painted silver?
I'm not concerned about NCRS judging and losing points for correctness, but I'd like it to keep it's fresh, clean appearance as long as possible.
Is my best bet to paint it with something like Alumi-blast or just keep it as it is now as the bare raw aluminum? I know if I tried to clearcoat it the clearcoat will turn yellow from the heat so that's not a good option.
What's my best move?

[Rick S.]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

Go to confession and start with "Forgive me Father for I have sinned..."

[mike mccagh]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

and the priest said"two rosaries and paint the sucker with alumiblast" since your intent is not the judging field. mikie

[mike cobine]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

Now that you are totally lost by the first two posts, go to the archives and search for "aluminum" and "reskinning".

You will find that blasting the aluminum just ripped the "skin" off of it as far as originality and judging goes. You will also find how to fix this for roughly $200.




Manifold Reskinning

[Rick S.]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

Heck, he was one of the posters back then in Sept and considered sending his intake to Jerry MacNeish.

[Barry K.]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

I should have expected some flack considering I did something so against NCRS "correctness".

That thread was regarding exhaust manifolds and I'm asking now about preserving the finish on an intake manifold.
Yes, I am well aware of the reskinning process and originally that is what I planned on having done to my intake manifold as well, but circumstances this year prohibited me from that option so I had to do the best I could in other ways. I'm just looking for my best option now in preserving the finish best I can with what I have.

thank-you Mike McCagh for the answer on the Alumiblast.

[Joe C.]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

"I should have expected some flack considering I did something so against NCRS "correctness"".

Fur seine Pennance zu der Corvette ****s, gehen sie zum Hausen, trinken sie sieben Flaschen Budweiser, und singen sie zwei Lyriken "Deutschland, Deutschland Uber Alles".

Josef

PS: As Mike said, above, the Alumiblast will be fine. Also, the amount of paint on the manifolds varied greatly, from a narrow band along the outboard edges, to almost the entire manifold.

[Barry K.]

Re: '65 aluminum intake manifold

thank you Joe