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    Default What color black is used on the Dual Snorkel Air Cleaner

    Hello all,

    What color black is used on the Dual Snorkel Air Cleaner.

    It looks gloss black in some, and satin in others?



    Thanks!
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    Satin black from what I’ve seen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tbirdman View Post
    Satin black from what I’ve seen.
    Thanks! Does anyone have a good paint source?
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    Here is my air cleaner I painted with Rustoleum (or possibly Ace Hardware brand) satin black. Not sure how "OE" it is, but think it turned out decent.

    What grade of paint are you looking for?

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    My father swapped engines to blue printed 306 with around 360 HP. He wanted to keep the HEI distributor. Stock air cleaner no longer fit.

    Found a 1985 cfi thunderbird air cleaner and base...swapped on the stock 85 mustang snorkles and a 1/4 air cleaner spacer things just fit...Needed to fab up the new cross over for the strut bar but it was all worth it to keep things looking semi stock like.

    I stripped sand blasted everything and powdercoated the base and snorkles with high gloss jet black powder and did the lid in chrome powder.

    I think originally it was more of a semigloss but this high gloss black sure looks nice.

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    On the 1982 is was a black crinkle finished...well at least on my GLX and my Friends GT.

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    I use Eastwood’s Chassis Black.
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    SEM makes some good rattle can stuff. With lots of colors and gloss levels.
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    I can take some pics of a couple of 1985 E5ZZ... nos air cleaners bases I have if you want ? I believe a they are satin or semi gloss

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    Don’t paint powder coat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by airplanedriver View Post
    I can take some pics of a couple of 1985 E5ZZ... nos air cleaners bases I have if you want ? I believe a they are satin or semi gloss
    Yes Please. Thanks
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    At the factory, our QC used Rustoleum high heat BBQ black spray to touch up any scratches in black parts of Cadillac chromed exhaust tips and any other black areas on the rear of exhaust assys. Not unusual some got scratched later in production process after removal from their clear plastic bags.
    Touch up was done during final inspection of full exhaust assys hung in their shipping racks before being sent to the GM Lansing plant.
    Saying there are times when no special paint is used on new auto parts. May or may not have to pass salt testing.
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    Default LTD LX 85 engine bay pic

    My 85 LTD LX engine bay pic taken 1987 or 1988. Sure miss that car.
    Air cleaner assy paint was pretty clean and unretouched, being only 2-3 years old.
    Not gloss black or flat for sure. May not even be semi-gloss.
    Prob most gloss black versions seen were resprayed with satin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gr79 View Post
    My 85 LTD LX engine bay pic taken 1987 or 1988. Sure miss that car.
    Air cleaner assy paint was pretty clean and untouched being only 2-3 years old.
    Not gloss black for sure. A bit of shine but no reflection of any other colors or images like gloss does.
    Prob most gloss black versions were resprayed.

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    Thank you and that is a sweet LTD LX. I have never seen one with the hood up! Cool
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    Very nice. Thank you for posting. That looks like Satin to me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 85MUSTANGTGT View Post
    Here is my air cleaner I painted with Rustoleum (or possibly Ace Hardware brand) satin black. Not sure how "OE" it is, but think it turned out decent.

    What grade of paint are you looking for?

    Good job!

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    My late 84 GT vert is satin blk and I have a cleaner from a 83 late both are satin

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    Thanks for posting about this. Gives me ideas on how to restore my dual snorkel

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    We used to use Krylon 1613 semi-flat black for chassis parts after going around and trying all of the semi-glosses (usually too glossy) and the satins (usually too flat). The semi-flat was the perfect gloss level. They changed the formula about 13 years ago, but you could still get the original stuff through industrial distributors, but it looks like that is gone now too. I have not tried the reformulated 1613, but that is what I would use for that air cleaner housing.

    There are other chassis black paints also available, but I have not tried them. I believe Eastwood sells some.
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