Mustang Monthly is headed to Andrews Powdercoating in Southern California to get an education on some of the best ways to restore and preserve your Mustang's most important (and visible!) parts.
Restoration brings with it some of the greatest challenges in Mustangdom such as corrosion prevention and paint protection. We recently had the opportunity to chat with Scott Andrews of Andrews Powdercoating about powdercoating and what approach to take for a Mustang project. Scott suggests careful planning and a lot of forethought because powdercoating does not come cheap if you're going to do it right. It is both expensive and time consuming. If your powdercoating quote is cheap, you're not going to get the quality your Mustang deserves. Any dope can hang up a sign and call themselves a powdercoating shop. It takes knowing what you're doing to get it right and achieve excellent results.
How much? Expect to spend at least $350+ to have a pair of valve covers and an intake manifold powdercoated depending on condition going in as one example on cost. If you have a whole bunch of parts to be powdercoated, be prepared for the shock of cost, but know you will never have to do it again. Some powdercoating operations give a discount for quantities. And check this out - Andrews Powdercoating can powdercoat an entire Mustang body or just part of one - such as your engine compartment in any color you desire, which means it can color match if you want the engine compartment in body color.
Andrews Powdercoating isn't your average powdercoater. It caters to the street rod and show car crowd where standards are very high. It also serves commercial businesses with everything under the sun where there's no time to waste where it has to be done over again. If you're building a restomod - and even if you're doing a stone stocker, Andrews Powdercoating can meet the need with just about every coating under the sun. We're talking exact color match to where they can match a piece you've already painted.
For commercial customers, Andrews Powdercoating has to meet very tough standards for durable coatings - commercial standards, military specifications, aerospace and defense, government, NAVSEA, NASA, the FDA, FAA, USDA, architecture grade, chemical resistant, and a host of other demanding situations. Andrews Powdercoating has a large international client base as well. Everything from file cabinets to food service equipment to aircraft components to Mustang radiators to intake manifolds to exhaust headers to interior parts. What would you like for a perfect surface?
If you would like to know more about powdercoating for your Mustang project, contact Scott Andrews at Andrews Powdercoating at www.powdercoater.com or 818/700-1030. Stay tuned to Mustang Monthly Magazine for this very informative installment coming up.