Powder Coating a Cougar chassis

[Headling]

Hi Guys, got another Cougar 2 to build up.

Just thinking about powder coating the chassis on this one, I have seen lots of nice RC10's in various colours.

Was this a popular mod on the Cougars back in the day??

Were there any popular colours people went for??

[peetbee]

I don't remember people going for this on the Cougar at the time Mark, but I think it would look quite cool if you went for the fluro colours like on the RC10 rather than a black or other dark colours.

[fakiee]

Schumacher anodised them for the works models but I also havnt seen any powder coated cougar chassis. They should work well for powder coating, along with the motor plates. Do you have a good source for powder coating?

[Incredible_Serious]

I think you'll find that the Cougar owners back in the day were more interested in running, so it was just the chassis to a buggy..... it's the RC10 guys who bowed to vanity and needed flashy trashy colours..... not much has changed, I guess.....

Course, I could be just stirring, due to the nature of this hobby....

Alex

[peetbee]

I think you'll find that the Cougar owners back in the day were more interested in running, so it was just the chassis to a buggy..... it's the RC10 guys who bowed to vanity and needed flashy trashy colours..... not much has changed, I guess.....

Course, you could be saying that as most Cougar owners didn't want to try and work on the car as those cheap crappy screws were such a pain!

I had the orange fluro chassis on my RC10 cos it looked nice whenever it was on it's roof!

[8rad]

I have had 2 powder coated. My Topcat is orange and my cougar works is black.

http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=21740

[Headling]

Thanks guys

I couldnt remember people back in the day powder coating the Cougars, but I was a kid so maybe forgot!

I just remember the silver,red, purple anodised chassis.

So what colour to go for??? I'm thinking of flo yellow and doing the motor/gearbox plates too.

White could look quite pimping but as its an 80/90's car flo colours maybe best.

I have a company near my home that did my Motor bike frame so may go and see him, just dont want the coating too thick to effect the C/S holes etc in chassis.

[fakiee]

I'm doing a fluro yellow shotgun/storm so you cant do your cougars in yellow!! JK

I think yellow will look awesome, would love to see the finish. A few people have done rattle can jobs and they have come out looking very good. If your chassis' are not mint you can get them bead blasted by Tony @ rudebits - he does a good price and it makes them look a lot better.

[Headling]

Haha ok maybe I'll stay away from Yellow then! Lol

Maybe pink to match my wheels!

My mate owns a vapour blaster and does my stuff for free so I'll blast a spare chassis and get this off to powder coat

If it goes well ill post up the company info up

[fakiee]

Haha ok maybe I'll stay away from Yellow then! Lol

Maybe pink to match my wheels!

My mate owns a vapour blaster and does my stuff for free so I'll blast a spare chassis and get this off to powder coat

If it goes well ill post up the company info up

hehehe, I was just messing with you. Do the yellow, it will look great!

[ireg]

nice idea the bottom chassis of my cougar was somehow beaten, it may look good again if i will apply powder coating.
where do you send your parts for powder coating?

[Headling]

I haven't had it done yet as need to find a new chassis for my racer build

I'm just going to try a local Powder coating firm and see what it comes out like.

I'll post some pics once iv found a chassis