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Shit son, that is mad tyte yo!!
No seriously, looks good wish i woulda taken a peek under the hood last night.
Match the pipes to the body too.

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Looks nice, you have me currently searching Google on a DYI PC System :)
If I give up, I may have to send you some $ and my VC/Misc parts to PC if you would please.

He was probably, hopefully working on my Shortblock and didn't want to be caught in the act of working on the Top Secret Six-Bolt 4G63 LS1 E4TR!

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Looks good man! How has your older stuff been holding up?

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Well my old pipes got ruined when I opened up the radiator cap when it was still hot, and blew hot coolant all over and stained the old pipes. Those were also my first pieces I ever did, and I think I slightly under-cured them, so they needed to be redone anyway. My wrinkle black one was holding up well, except it had a crack in it causing oil leaks. My gloss black one Swifty has. I did some piping for a guy with a lexus probably about 4 months back, and his stuff still looks good. I'm keeping this stuff for awhile so we'll see how long it lasts. Hopefully awhile though!

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Here's a flat black intake heat shield I did for someone.

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so would you maybe want to do my suspension arms in a white or red and my valve cover white??? also the intake would be done with the v/c. let me know on the cost for that stuff if your open to some business. Thanks

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That black cherry vc looks great! My car is the black cherry color as well and I really want to find a color that matches the car. How does that match? I was thinking about this color https://host532.ipowerweb.com/~rosey...banburyred.jpg

btw your work is great! You should become a vender on the boards

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I travel too much to ever really make this a business. It's a hobby, nothing more. And I can do one-sies and two-sies here and there on the side. We mainly keep the basic neutral colors in stock (Different blacks, gun-metal, silver, almost-chrome, clear coat). If some one wants something done in a different color, I'd have to charge to buy the powder because it's not something I have or will probably use much of in the future.

About wanting to match the black cherry. I have not found a powder out there that matches the cars color. You can buy powder tint, that will darken the color, but I went a different avenue and tried this transparent approach. It does not match perfectly due to it being darker with the black base. If you shine direct light onto it, it matches fairly well, but in just plain old light, it is pretty dark. But I like how it turned out.

Prices, well when anyone actually wants something done, not "oh in a month maybe", but actually wants it done now, then just hit me up and I'll let you know!

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Did some lugs today for my best friends civic. I don't know how well they will hold up to wrenches though.

I also did a set for Brownman, but didn't get any pics. Maybe he'll take some pics of them installed on the car with his black evo rims.

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you should swing by to take a look at the bench I was talking to you about last night and I can show you the alu overflow tank

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Cool. Maybe I'll give you a ring tomorrow and stop by if time permits.

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The black VC is still holding up great! Looks good with everything else I have in there.

-A. Swift

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Glad to hear. Did you end up polishing those letters up at all?

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yep. I'll show ya next time I see ya.

-A. Swift

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Doing my intake and UIC pipe now. This is the base coat in Almost Chrome. 2nd coat will be the Transparent Red. Should give it a "candy" appearance.

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Well I am going to need to buy more of the transparent red. It's not sticking to the pipe very well, and I wasted a ton. Damn

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I found more of the red. The pipe turned out like ass. Time to strip it all!

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My nuts turned out good, but now they are chipping like crazy, so i don't know, but i like them and appreciative of you doing them for me.

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Ya, I was thinking they'd chip. Powder Coating is strong, but if you put a wrench on it i'd expect it to prolly chip.

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Well stripped it all off. I dunno I think maybe my home/hobby setup isn't ideal for doing those candy colors. I ended up redoing everything in a gunmetal color, and gave it a gloss clear coat as well.