Just pulled off my valve covers to send out for a chrome powder coat and clead top coat on monday. While pulling these off i did notice my intake manifold looks and feels to be of cast aluminum on my 02 4.6. My question is do you think its worth the work to pull the in take off and have it powdercoated as well? I am going to hopefully have all my black plastic caps and covers cabon fiber hydro dipped and do you guys think this would be too much? and will the coating hurt or effect any thing if i have it done properly? thanks in advance guys!

 

if your intake is black, then it is plastic.

but either way, i dont think it would hurt it. unless you cant powdercoat plastic that is


so how clean is your motor under the valve covers? any sludge build up??

 

mine is deff casted aluminum. i couldnt really belive it cause i thought they were all black plastic but mines deff silver cast.

 

I had the intake on my mach I ceramic coated. Expensive think I paid about 150 bucks but it is really easy to clean and it looks great.

 

all 4.6s got the cast aluminum intakes up through 07 or 08

 

Yup just the lowers are plastic

 

Kool. Want to see how this turns out.

 

So how did the valve train look? Still pretty clean? Take some before and after pics for sure plz very interested how this turns out.

 

valve train looked suprisingly good. i need to buy new gaskets this week. my boss at work dose the piwder coating and media blasting on the side so he said he might not get to it till this weekend or next but hes only charging me 80 bucks. i juat laid bath towels over everything while its exposed but will deff take a ton of pics when i get them back.

 

any one have any ideas on decales for my valve covers? Looking for ford motorsports or somthing that will kinda set them off with out being too gaudy.

 

I would install them first. I'm a big fan of less is more when it comes to appearance.

 

I would stencil paint a ford logo on it