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Old 11-12-2008, 04:50 AM
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My car is Navy Blue Metallic so I was trying to come up with some simple things to dress up under the hood. My STB is black currently but I think it would look awesome painted NBM to match the rest of the car. What's some opinions on doing this? Also throw me idea's on what to do under the hood. So far I've got a cylinder head plate, polished the heads and aluminum parts I could get to, MSD wires with Ceramic Coated LT's, Mobil 1 decal, blue K&N filter on the AIR tube. I'll post a pic of the engine bay in a few minutes.
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Any idea's?
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I sent them out to the body shop and had them painted about 4 years ago..they still look good..I did them with spay can duplicolor first and they did not look nearly as good ..



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^^^ i love your covers man!!! bay looks clean!!!!!!
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Mine already came painted my body color
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I say go for it. Looking at the pics posted I like how it looks color matched.
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Originally Posted by LS1BLKSS
^^^ i love your covers man!!! bay looks clean!!!!!!
Thanks for the kind words sir..you can get them at GM Performance Parts..
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Originally Posted by slt200mph
I sent them out to the body shop and had them painted about 4 years ago..they still look good..I did them with spay can duplicolor first and they did not look nearly as good ..



Look's sick bro but were did you mount your coil pack's at????
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Originally Posted by 1FASTBIRD
Look's sick bro but were did you mount your coil pack's at????
Thanks for the kind words sir ... The coils are up under the cowl of the car you can see a little of the polished end plates if you look closely. Made the coil reloaction out of $20 worth of material from home depot..used LT1 wires and cut them to fit...
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My opinion - Eh, I'd save your cash and spend it somewhere else.
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I've allready dumped five grand into the car in the past three months. I'm just trying to do little things which are different from other LS1 cars in the area. I could paint the STB myself. Wouldn't cost me much at all. Basically I want the engine bay to look perfect for shows and cruise ins. I'm a clean freak when it comes to my car.
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Originally Posted by slt200mph
I sent them out to the body shop and had them painted about 4 years ago..they still look good..I did them with spay can duplicolor first and they did not look nearly as good ..



Love the covers man thats frickin awesome. Sharp bay, real sharp bay.

to the OP. The best underhood mod is keeping it clean. When I got my Z it had MSD coil packs, red hotchikis stb, all braided fuel lines, fast fuel rails, I put in a optima red top, it was sharp under there, but as long as you keep it clean, it will look great.

Delete all the egr/air/evap if you can (tune it out/don't have emissions) That really cleans up the bay.



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