Warmed up some today after a couple inches of wet and heavy snow fell down so I hopped out to the garage and began working on my transmission pan project.
Here is the pan in stock form:
Notice the rough texture over the entire pan including the lettering.
My plans are to paint the raised lettering aluminum and the rest of the pan wrinkle black to match my already painted engine oil pan.
In order to get a clean finish I deemed it necessary to block out the rough casting of the "Trick Flow" text. Nothing a couple passes with a block and some sand papers cannot handle. Finial finish is with 220.
Below you can see the pan all prepped for paint and ready to go. I rigorously went over the entire pan with a red scotch brite to give the pan some tooth for the primer to come.
Now remember my plan of just painting the script aluminum and the rest of the pan wrinkle black? So in order to accomplish that I needed to mask off all of the raised lettering. I decided on making up the template before I painted anything because I did not want to risk messing up the aluminum finish after I painted it.
So here is the pan with the template all made up. Remember... the template will go on over the aluminum paint to protect it from the wrinkle black.
Here she is finally awaiting primer and some paint.....
Updates to come tomorrow.
Here is the pan in stock form:
Notice the rough texture over the entire pan including the lettering.
My plans are to paint the raised lettering aluminum and the rest of the pan wrinkle black to match my already painted engine oil pan.
In order to get a clean finish I deemed it necessary to block out the rough casting of the "Trick Flow" text. Nothing a couple passes with a block and some sand papers cannot handle. Finial finish is with 220.
Below you can see the pan all prepped for paint and ready to go. I rigorously went over the entire pan with a red scotch brite to give the pan some tooth for the primer to come.
Now remember my plan of just painting the script aluminum and the rest of the pan wrinkle black? So in order to accomplish that I needed to mask off all of the raised lettering. I decided on making up the template before I painted anything because I did not want to risk messing up the aluminum finish after I painted it.
So here is the pan with the template all made up. Remember... the template will go on over the aluminum paint to protect it from the wrinkle black.
Here she is finally awaiting primer and some paint.....
Updates to come tomorrow.
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