Orangemada's project Pinky!

[orangemazda]

Just had this chassis powder coated. I haven't had a pink one before so I figured it was about time.

I'm not a huge fan of white parts (sacrilege, I know!), I normally prefer black parts (don't worry, I'd never dye good vintage white parts!)

I think this color chassis lends itself to white parts though. I'll probably do some carbon fiber goodies though too.

[SFC K]

Cool color! It would look great in either color of plastic parts.

[DaveM]

Nice,

Subscribed,

I love your powder coated chassis builds!

[Joe6Pack74]

Nice color but I have a couple of quick questions. One, does the powder coat add weight compared to anodizing? Do you have to strip the anodizing with lye before having it powder coated?

[orangemazda]

[orangemazda]

Nice color but I have a couple of quick questions. One, does the powder coat add weight compared to anodizing? Do you have to strip the anodizing with lye before having it powder coated?

I think the weight of the powder coating in negligible. I believe the powder coater I take my stuff to sand blasts the parts before coating them.

[DaveM]

Nice start!

What towers are they?

And what battery strap?

Please,

[lmw94002]

Sweet looking powder coat!

I always wondered how powder coating affected the counter-sunk screw heads on the bottom of the chassis? I was thinking of doing it with a chassis I have that have a lot of scratching vs. trying to polish (alot) and get a custom anodize job.

[yellowdatsun]

Battery strap looks like a cut down B4 piece. I assume the rear shock towers are relatively common, as I have one too.

[orangemazda]

The front and rear shock towers are ones I ordered from Fibrelyte and the battery strap is a cut down B4 strap. I still need to clean up the cut on the battery strap a little bit.

Nice start!

What towers are they?

And what battery strap?

Please,

[orangemazda]

Sweet looking powder coat!

I always wondered how powder coating affected the counter-sunk screw heads on the bottom of the chassis? I was thinking of doing it with a chassis I have that have a lot of scratching vs. trying to polish (alot) and get a custom anodize job.

The powder coat doesn't affect the counter sunk screws too bad. I'll post a pic of the bottom shortly.

I like powder coat because like you said, it hides a lot of scratches on used chassis.

[orangemazda]

Got a few more parts put together...

Still not sure if white parts are my cup of tea...

We'll see as things progress.

[RC10th]

I like the white,

but,

if you must,

only use black arms

[DaveM]

+1 for black arms.

[lmw94002]

I kinda like the white... But black would look good too