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Stuck with the black one. Because they blend in well with the other gauges. Nismo white faced speedometer is too much IMHO both presentation and price wise.

I had not thought they were that inaccurate. Have my pivot speed meter anyways so I will be able to compare how inaccurate it really is.

So I have been thinking about whether I should paint the nismo plenum or leave as it is.

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Respray options are as follows:

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Tomei blue - same color as Tomei Fine Spec engine covers (not really fond of that TBH :unsure: )

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Dark Grey / Black Wrinkle paint - stock look :closedeyes: (I prefer this option so far)

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Clear ceramic coating - one way to paint but retaining the same look

What do you guys think?

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Yeah, I have seen those pics before and fell in love with wrinkle paint. In that is what inspired me to paint my engine covers in Red Wrinkle paint, but I will post that up another time.

Black wrinkle is pure porn

Your right David and we are gonna see lots of it :P

Thanks for the input guys.

Made my decision paint the Nismo plenum black!

So first up, the annoying but essential part

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Prep and tape up the plenum. This took me f@rkin aaagggeees to do but is worth it afterwards (I'm also coming down with a cold which is not helping my patience :/ )

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Taped up all the bits I think needed to be protected including the very important nismo badge because that makes the car go faster :nyaanyaa: Also gave it a quick wipe with some prep wash

Next, painting time (my favorite part)

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Already nice and glossy but that's not wrinkle paint :w00t:

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Actually it is! When you first apply it looks nice and glossy like above. But to make the paint wrinkle you need to spray the object in cross patch pattern i.e. horizontal, vertical and then cross ways but more importantly you need this

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a heat gun - don't use your hair dryer for two reasons

1. it's probably not powerful enough to generate the heat required to wrinkle the paint

2. you will probably get spanked by your partner for using their precious hairdryer :spank:

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here you can see the paint wrinkle process

Set the heat gun to 280-300 deg c that will assist in wrinkling the paint,

a quick tip - keep the nose of the gun close to the object

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A few minutes later it should look like this

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Wrinkled up consistently

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After the paint is a bit dryer (this type of paint takes a real long time to dry and get hard i.e. a couple of days but I did all this today), take the masking tape off which also took a bit of time and precision.

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masking tape removed

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more wrinkles

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the underside shot of the plenum

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another job done :cool:

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Another pro job Anthony, beautiful. How good is it ticking things off what seems an endless list!!

You can't go wrong with wrinkle black, hence why it was my choice as well haha.

Will look unreal with the Tomei blue

Cheers Robbie.

It sure does feel good to get one more thing accomplished.

Wrinkle paint looks awesome if done correctly. Thinking of doing my standard oem plenum as well because it looks so sexy.

However, I recently found out that my wife and I are expecting another little one, so I am keen to get as much of the car done as possible.

Happy days.

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That looks awesome. Might do that to my standard one while I have engine out.

Thanks man.

Do it. It's worth it! You can get the paint from any autobarn store.

It is also considerably cheaper than to engage someone to powder coat it for you and VHT is good quality stuff.

Thanks mate.

I will just use light scrapper and then wipe it with some degreaser or prep wash to clean around the badge. I'm not game enough to use the dremel tool in case I slip and scratch the plenum.

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You can easilt use the wrinkle paint as your base then put a colour on top. I have mine in red. I may end up going over it with a deep maroon with a bit of gold pearl through it as the red is just a little bit bland and straight forward and woudl like to go to the colour similar to what was on the original R31 rockers.

Awesome build, you should have a chat to you "Sydneykid" from this forum
about setting the car up for street/track, I just ordered whiteline bushings to
replace all the standard worn bushings plus camber, toe and caster correction
bushing/crush tubes plus swaybars through him, he can also help with the
coilover choice, the Japanese coilovers are usually too hard for our poor roads
and also have very basic valving system due to the dual piston design, he's
currently putting together a Bilstein/Eibach combination for my r32gtr. He's a
very knowledgeable guy

Awesome build, you should have a chat to you "Sydneykid" from this forum

about setting the car up for street/track, I just ordered whiteline bushings to

replace all the standard worn bushings plus camber, toe and caster correction

bushing/crush tubes plus swaybars through him, he can also help with the

coilover choice, the Japanese coilovers are usually too hard for our poor roads

and also have very basic valving system due to the dual piston design, he's

currently putting together a Bilstein/Eibach combination for my r32gtr. He's a

very knowledgeable guy

Thanks Elliot,

Yes, I have heard of Syndneykid and have read some of the suspension 101 thread on SAU forum which is really interesting.

Really been struggling with suspension because I have had my eyes on Tein suspension (mono flex or flex type) but cannot seem to make a decision.

The car will be street / track use until I become experience on the circuit and then be just track use (and I will start a new build thread for that later on ;) )

I will actually contact him because I need further advice regarding this want some really good suspension for the track.

Cheers,

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