Sundown72

Hey all, I have my VQ apart right now and I'm looking to have the heads, timing covers, plenum, and some other misc aluminum vapor blasted in the Chicagoland area. Anyone know of a place that provides this service? Vapor-Shine in Naperville appears to be defunct.

Thanks,

Sundown72

calvin.w

Nice project you got!
But why not sand it down and polish? Doing that comes out to a brilliant shine, but it takes patience

iideadeyeii

iTrader: (6)

I bet he doesn't want to do the labor which is why he is looking for a place. I would never do that type of tedious/pointless labor

calvin.w

Same here but it's more of a show thing. Some people just get tired of seeing that old bland look when they open the hood

DarkZ03

iTrader: (11)

That's what coatings are for polishing or vapor blasting is temporary. Powder coat and forget about it.

Sundown72

Thanks for the replies.

I've got no interest in polishing. As for powdercoating, I use the process extensively on custom bicycles I build, but I'm not coating the heads. I am sending all the brackets, and things like that off to my coater, but I don't necessarily trust my coater with sandblasting around the machined surfaces of the timing cover and plenums, he's got a heavy foot with the sandblaster. I was aiming to get the whole lot vapor blasted so I could then just pass the cleaned timing covers and plenums to my coater clean and ready to go.

Nothing in Chicagoland?

Sundown72

Bump for vapor blasting in Chicagoland.