Ive got a few things that are anodized in a maroon color to match some paint on the boat... all done by PO.
- Air Filter/arrestor assembly
- Valve Covers
- EMI Thunder manifolds

Some of the anodizing is scratched and/or chipped at this point... contemplating cleaning it all up and refinishing it another color.

Is this something as simple as scuffing them up and then painting as with any other engine parts? Using a similar engine paint? Or with the anodized do I need to be doing something special?

Thanks in advance.

the anodizing is extremely hard and very tough to get anything to stick in the conventional sense. Try sanding them with a course grit like 80 or 120 and use an epoxy primer like one of PPG's DP-LF series. Have you considered powder coating them?

Nope, but your post is enough to prevent me to even both messing with them... Not worth doing all the work for it to look like crap and start peeling after a while. Ill looking into powder coating everything... do places that powder coat, also do all the prep removing the anodizing, or do they do it right over it?

They sand-blast the part to size the surface.

Cool... thanks brother!

the place i use does, they sand blast the ever love'in heck out of everything, I've never really seen the parts mid way through though, just drop of an pick up

At work we have a hard coat anodize system ,all that is needed to remove it is a caustic solution . repeated trips through a dishwasher will eventually remove it.
I have used oven cleaner to strip small parts that needed to be welded with great success.

I had some stuff ANO'd last year. There was a $100 minimum that I never reached, I did some pulleys and brackets and things. For another $50, they stripped them all. That was the best $50 I ever spent, I tried all the back yard ways to remove it. Messy, toxic, expensive, etc.

Good luck-

launchpad, can you say who you used? Was it a local joint or a place you shipped it to?

It's called Production Plating in Mukilteo, WA. They are right next to Boeing and do all sorts of aircraft stuff. Pretty sure you could ship, give em a call!