crazyspeedfreakz

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Gonna be re spraying the manifold soon and wondered dose it need to be primed 1st ?
Going to be using VHT red crinkle and I'm sure when I read the back of the container last time it said it didn't need to be primed first.

Can any1 confirm what the case is ?

RA Dunk

Me personally I would give it a bloody good rub down with sand paper, give it a couple coats or primer, then the finishing coat.

Did they not change the formula of the VHT stuff and it ended up an more orangy colour than red?

addi monster

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The last tin i used was a tad orange

RA Dunk

Yea I seem to remember something about that from a while back so went and did a bit of digging.

http://www.carldavey.co.uk/article.php?id=1#110209

addi monster

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Good find that dunk

I did some calipers a while back and they looked shyte and i wondered why,, now i know

crazyspeedfreakz

iTrader: (92)

Thanks for that write up its puuurfect do u happen to no what people are using as a replacment to the VHT wrinkle if it's to orange as guess what .... I happen to have the later tin.

RA Dunk

No idea but woulden't mind finding out myself TBH.

prodriverules

iTrader: (52)

Just buy a can of rattle can Red and spray a light coat over top of the crinkle to colour it,or any colour of your choice.

crazyspeedfreakz

iTrader: (92)

Thanks for that Ryan will give it a shot

BlueBugEye

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I used the black on mine, no primer just a good rub down of the original paint, I have one small peel under the header tank where hot coolant escaped as I hadn't put the lid on properly!

Bealescooby

iTrader: (36)

I ordered 2 red and 2 black along with the primer so wil be using it little dissapointed now i've read it comes out more orange
I will be attempting this today so will post pics of outcome