Bluechulappa's 89Turbo restoration

[Bluechulappa]

I have never powder coated anything in my life until today! I got my Eastwood hot coat system for Christmas! So 10 days ago for my bday I bought a sandblaster and experimented with glassbead blasting and now some media called amber blast fine..

Here is what I did today. The part is an oil cap that came from my scion tC. The oil cap had been chrome from AEM but had been chipping or something. I decided to do a black wrinkle on it.
After sandblasting attempt-

Ready to spray!

First coat didn't cover everything :/

Second coat was much better!

Final pics of my first powder coated part!

I am looking to get a bigger oven asap! One that can fit my wheels that are 19 1/2" tall. I plan on powder coating a lot of stuff once I get an oven and order new colors!

 

[mk3design]

Lookin good, I also have a home powder coating system, very fun and addicting to powdercoat anything you see!

I just have a basic oven in my garage, we fit 16x9 wheels in it before but that was pushing it!

 

[Bluechulappa]

Got tired of the wrinkle black so I played with mirror black and chrome!
Honestly wasn't trilled with how the wrinkle black turned out but hey it was the very first thing I coated..

Second thing I coated:
Mirror black

Then super chrome over the black

 

[HKS_TRD]

I'm loving the colors there

I have been working on my alternator bracket too lately, have been sanding out all the grain to make it smooth, man it takes forever :: angry ::

 

[Bluechulappa]

Haha that's to much work! I just ordered 1lb. or triple bronze and 1lb. of super chrome. Candies are coming next...

Update on the supra ~ should be ready this week or next week.

 

[Bluechulappa]

Sandblasted the strut mounts and nuts... Comparison

 

[suprahero]

Looking good. I love powdercoating things. My kit is different than yours though. I bought the one Summit sells. The chrome looks pretty good, but it's not like chrome.

 

[IBoughtASupra]

Where did you get your sand balster? How much was it total? I am looking for one for our shop.

 

[Bluechulappa]

Where did you get your sand balster? How much was it total? I am looking for one for our shop.

My media cabinet was like $120 from Tractor Supply. Different places sell similar ones. It's def a badass tool!

Finished up tonight

This is the rattle can black from before sandblasting.... :/

 

[mk3design]

That looks great! Did you have to use a different size socket to put those nuts back on after powdercoat?

 

[xxxotiknightz]

Beautiful, i just read through the whole restoration and its been very inspireing. keep up the good work.

 

[Bluechulappa]

So I did some things today to my Supra! I'm feeling lots of love towards it lately!
Bracket before:

Brackets after:

Then after some powder coating I decided to put my under engine cover on.... After 3 years of it collecting dust in the attic!

And a final shot of my powder coated radiator brackets... They had minor imperfections.. I was kinda pissed but ohwell!

 

[JDMMA70]

looks good

 

[HKS_TRD]

Nice work there

What did you use on the upper alternator bracket? I've been chipping away at mine but still not entirely decided on what to do with it surface finish wise

 

[Bluechulappa]

That is just rattle can from back when I did my rebuild. I am powder coating them soon. Can't decide the color theme I wanna go with in the engine bay. Learning towards gloss black or flat black, silver, or chrome. Or paint matched powder coat

 

[HKS_TRD]

I like the silver

I am leaning towards ceramic coating mine but I may get it chrome plated, its a realy pain to get it nice and smooth as I am sure you would have found out

 

[Bluechulappa]

Getting ready for TX2K10!

Another update on the powder coating.... My dad fucked up my oven by wiring it wrong lol. So I need a replacement part and hopefully not a whole oven!

 

[Supraholics]

Cool blaster! You must be having a lot of fun with it!

 

[Bluechulappa]

Yea it's a great tool! Very fun to make old parts look brand new. My dryer for my air compressor should be here today. I needed one to completely remove the water from my compressed air supply. Water+sandblasting/powdercoating= bad results and or work stopping all together!

 

[jugodegolf]

That can't be dirt under those brackets.....OH! MY EYES!!!!