Hello all,
I am about to refinish my air cleaner filter housing, sand-blasting it well, priming it and coating it with POR-15 (will never rust again), and I was wondering who would be interested on having the same type of work done on his/hers.

Here is an extreme case...



And here is a spotless one:



Anyone interested on having a shiny, durable air filter housing?
As soon as I do mine I will show the results.

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.

Having done the job myself I think you'll find it difficult to get a really good finish with POR15 alone - partly because POR15 only seem to sell a gloss finish. KBS, however sell a single coat product that comes in a satin finish which is a bit closer to an original finish.

Eastwoods sell a product called under hood black that is meant to faithfully reproduce an original finish. I believe if you were to use that sort of top coat on top (or any other) on top of POR15 you need to use their tie coat primer.

Here is a general warning about POR15 products whilst on the tin they say they know what permanent means it does not specifically state that if you use that product the under surface will never rust again. Never is a very long time!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

Very interesting!

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Germantown, TN

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Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

I have found out that SEM Rust Shield is every bit as good as POR-15 and leaves a semi-gloss finish very close to factory!

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.