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Air grabber lid paint scheme

WWheeler

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My question is if the air cleaner lid is painted orange on BOTH sides or just on the top from the factory? If just the top surface, I would assume the underside is semi gloss black like the base? BTW, I have the correct orange color.

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OK and thank you! My plan WAS to powder coat both the base and lid and just coat the top of the lid orange. The PC would have acted as a bullet proof primer for the orange. I am surprised they coated the underside orange. Darn. I was looking forward to duplicating the “overspray” look under the lid with orange like there is on the underside of the body!
 

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One final question. The lid and base I have are probably reproductions from a few years back. They have made in Canada on them. Did the originals have that?

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Which air cleaner are we talking about here? Original underside of a 70 6bbl lid.

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Thanks for the picture. Yes, it is a ‘70 440+6 air cleaner lid. The repro I have is orange on top and black on the underside and has a “Made in Canada” stamp in white along with a part number. The part number is #2946393 and could be correct. BTW the base has the same “Made in Canada” stamp and part number #3418717 which seems not quite right. Any thoughts?

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Thanks for the picture. Yes, it is a ‘70 440+6 air cleaner lid. The repro I have is orange on top and black on the underside and has a “Made in Canada” stamp in white along with a part number. The part number is #2946393 and could be correct. BTW the base has the same “Made in Canada” stamp and part number #3418717 which seems not quite right. Any thoughts?

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where on the lid and base is the part numbers you found? I can check my lid for those.
 

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After looking around, these are probably Mopar Performance that came with the car when I bought it years ago. Just now getting around to refinishing it. Both parts are E coated semi gloss black and then the lid was sprayed orange, but only on top. The base had the deflector spot welded on the front and was for a non-grabber hood. Since mine has the grabber, I ground that off.

Attached are pics of the part numbers. Just curious if the original bits had these numbers.

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