Vacuum metalizing....

[Rolling_Thunder]

Alright - here's the deal guys... Customer wants to do an "Enduroshine" finish on a cross ram intake manifold... Edelbrock told him the manifold to too big to fit in their vacumme chamber...

Anyone know of a place that can do this ?

Location is in southern California...

Steve ? anyone ? any ideas ???

[Restomod]

Do chrome powder coat,has a very simillar look.

[Joey_H]

Give these guys a call: http://www.americanpvd.com/

[vp23271]

Do chrome powder coat,has a very simillar look.

I think I have seen what your talking about at Specialized Ceramic & Powder Coating in Huntington Beach. I think it's called Chromex, but not sure how close it matches the Endurashine finish. Another shop did not recommend Chromex and said it did not yield consistent results. Specialized had a couple pieces in their show room and they looked good to me.

Another idea is to just get the piece fully polished and then do a clear ceramic coat so you don't have to polish again in the future. Specialized should have more info on that too.

Link to shop:
http://www.specializedcoating.com/index.html

[Rolling_Thunder]

The guy does not want to powder coat it... he owns a powder coating business... he was specific about vacumme metalizing...

[JMarsa]

Google: vacuum metallizing

Lots of hits. including:

Vacuum Metalizing Co
Cucamonga, CA

--JMarsa

[MarkM66]

Google: vacuum metallizing

Lots of hits. including:

Vacuum Metalizing Co
Cucamonga, CA

--JMarsa

No, it's "vacumme" ;-)

[Joey_H]

Did you look at my link? That shop does what you're looking for and they're in Downey.

[andrewb70]

Alright - here's the deal guys... Customer wants to do an "Enduroshine" finish on a cross ram intake manifold... Edelbrock told him the manifold to too big to fit in their vacumme chamber...

Anyone know of a place that can do this ?

Location is in southern California...

Steve ? anyone ? any ideas ???

http://www.vacmet.com/

That is the place used both by Edelbrock for Endura Shine and by Weiand for EverBright.

Andrew

[Rolling_Thunder]

VacMet won't do it...

[andrewb70]

VacMet won't do it...

Well they are the ones that do it for the companies that I mentioned. I guess keep calling until you find someone that will.

Andrew

[Joey_H]

I talked to a lot of people at SEMA about this process for my own project and learned most shops only do high-volume work not piecemeal for the hobbyist. For example they'll talk to you if you have 500 sets of wheels to coat, but not 4. Call these guys:

http://www.americanpvd.com/

When I talked to their reps last year they did say they'd coat with the endurashine process for the ordinary Joe off the street with just a few parts. Hopefully that hasn't changed since that last time I talked to them.

[Rolling_Thunder]

I am currently awaiting a replay from the PVD guys... hopefully they will be more helpful and not ass rude as the guys at VacMet

[Big H]

It looks like Olympic Powder Coatings has purchased Vacuum Metal Coatings in Santa Ana. I have used them before with good results. You can find them on the web at http://www.olympicpowdercoating.com/. Follow the link to the vacuum coatings instead of the powdercoat.