R & R'd my supercharger today and cleaned some grease, sealer off the top plate with some brake cleaner and it tore through the finish. Anyone know the color Jaguar used on these items? Thanks in advance.

 

Actually, none of the blower assembly parts are painted except by the owner. This is mine from my tensioner replacement this past winter. I painted the cover a two tone, the rest was just cleaned. I did repaint the pulley's.

 

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The intercoolers and blower top are indeed painted at the factory. Otherwise they would be raw silver aluminum

 

Gotta agree with that. Mine are factory stock and the hood liner has worm through on the corner of one of the letters and its shiney aluminum under they grey, plus the brake cleaner wore down to a tan primer looking base on the top plate. I'm going to get some dark pewter engine paint and blend in the top plate.

 

Its just raw casting with a semi buffed finish, trust me, I used a wire brush, dipping solvent and lots of elbow grease...there was no paint on it. The idea of not painting it is to not hold heat which would defeat the purpose of the coolers. The vibration from your hood will create a polished finish and you could do that to the whole assembly.

Here is the base to an unpolished 871 blower...
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=OIP....9&rs=0&p=0&r=0

Here is the base to a polished 671 blower...
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/1-YAAOSwrklVa2Ep/$_35.JPG

Both are aluminum, one just has an extra process done on it. Same thing with carburetors and headers. The only thing is, the more you buff, the more metal you work off and it becomes very thin.

 

After doing a google search on "XJR intercooler color" there's plenty on these boards on the subject, according to what I read they are definitely painted from the factory. HH, I can only think yours were stripped by a PO or Jaguar toyed with letting some through unfinished. Mine are stock and they are grey with a primer.

 

When I worked at the Jag dealer I had a buddy that was finishing up reinstalling the charge coolers and supercharger. He sprayed some carb cleaner to get some greasy fingerprints off and....................... The grey finish came off!!!!!!!!!!

He panicked and then just decided to pull them all off again and bead blast them. He had to go next door to the Volvo shop where the bead blaster cabinet was.

He said he got done around midnight and they looked pretty good when I saw them the next morning.

Next time he used alcohol to clean the SC and coolers.

bob

 

I have to agree, and can post a picture of the paint peeling off mine if need be. It's definitely painted, and I know mine has never been touched before - no one painted a "raw factory" piece prior to my owning it.

 

I'll get a picture when I get home but on the advice of a forum member I used this:

https://www.amazon.com/Dupli-Color-D.../dp/B001DKRFX6

I got it for about that price local too. I'm ahppy with it, but you need to be careful since it will scratch (I did IC manifolds and V8 top plate), I put a scratch in mine putting the SC back in. I just sprayed some in a cup and a straight eyeliner brush (I work for a cosmetics company, I pay so little it's not even funny) and touched it up.

I drove the XKR since it's nice out otherwise I'd snap a pic in the parking lot.

 

Then I have to agree with what JT and the rest of y'all are saying and agree that perhaps mine has been gone over by the previous owner. Maybe I ought to pull mine off and paint them then?