Mopar001
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From the factory, is the air breather painted gloss, flat or a crinkle finish on a 70 TNT?
TNT air breather finish
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Mr C
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Flat black.
polara71
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No "crinkle" ?........
polara71
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http://www.nicksgarage.com/aircleaner.htm
answered my own question.. (NO) . someone here posted this a year or so ago.....probably Bob it is very informative
answered my own question.. (NO) . someone here posted this a year or so ago.....probably Bob it is very informative
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bluefury361
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I'm not sure whats correct but I have a 69 L code twin snorkle air filter housing on my K code 69 440.
I had the top black wrinkle powder coated and the base silver coated, it looks great. (The base is suppost to be natural, unpainted metal)
I had the top black wrinkle powder coated and the base silver coated, it looks great. (The base is suppost to be natural, unpainted metal)
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Mine has the slight crinkle finish, would you call it flat or satin black, not sure.
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looks like satin to me, just a little dull from age. Satin it is...
patrick66
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Every one I've ever had (except the 340 Challenger and 440 Dart GTS) have been a satin-black finish. The two I mentioned, had a crinkle-black finish, but had no snorkels.
Mr C
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Slight crinkle = orange peel. They could have been a satin...after a year living under the hood with all the grime it'll look flat anyways.
From what was on my '70 Monaco Brougham, 383 "N" code, dual snorkle, factory crinkle, it appears the crinkle flattens and dulls with age. That's the way mine was. I bought the car in May, 1975 so it was "a used car" at that time and unmolested. When I found another air cleaner and put some rattle-can VHT crinkle paint on it, it was a much deeper crinkle . . . after I figured out how to spray the paint to come out correctly. When sprayed, as the paint drys, THAT's when the crinkle happens. I let mine air dry, but some guys reputedly baked them in their wife's oven -- YIKES.
It took me a time or two to get the hang of spraying the crinkle and getting it to the right texture and thickness. In the air cleaner I was repainting, there was even a factory run in the orig crinkle paint!
The BEST match for normal air cleaner paint (and other black underhood engine items, plus the solid a/c lines) is GM black "gloss black engine enamel". It not "glossy gloss", but a satin gloss, but not nearly as satiny as normal satin paint. Spray on or use artist brush for the a/c lines, but it matches the Chrysler factory underhood black perfectly. Unlike the softer satin paints, it dries hard and acts like a "hard paint", not absorbing fingertip oil and such.
There might have been some Chry air cleaners which were glossier black, but it seems like they were more middle-later 1970s and on A-block motors? But stilll not "show car gloss black".
Just my experiences. Yours' might differ.
Enjoy!
CBODY67
It took me a time or two to get the hang of spraying the crinkle and getting it to the right texture and thickness. In the air cleaner I was repainting, there was even a factory run in the orig crinkle paint!
The BEST match for normal air cleaner paint (and other black underhood engine items, plus the solid a/c lines) is GM black "gloss black engine enamel". It not "glossy gloss", but a satin gloss, but not nearly as satiny as normal satin paint. Spray on or use artist brush for the a/c lines, but it matches the Chrysler factory underhood black perfectly. Unlike the softer satin paints, it dries hard and acts like a "hard paint", not absorbing fingertip oil and such.
There might have been some Chry air cleaners which were glossier black, but it seems like they were more middle-later 1970s and on A-block motors? But stilll not "show car gloss black".
Just my experiences. Yours' might differ.
Enjoy!
CBODY67
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Got the car in storage, maybe I get to it next couple of days. Strange surface, different from orange peel, not really a crinkle finish either. Similar to a paintjob on a very sloppy cleaned surface or thin lines of rust where the paint slightly rises.
Furyman
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1970's U codes should be wrinkle finish from the factory.My own U code 300 4 door hardtop aircleaner looks really flat ..but up close you can still see the wrinkle finish especially on the breather hose nipple ...hose off it's mint.
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