Engine Bay Professionally Painted, Pics Inside
12-12-2004, 11:19 PM
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Engine Bay Professionally Painted, Pics Inside Well here's some progress pics for one of my projects to get this car magazine worthy( I finished the interior already)
Motor and trans are out, last year when putting in the new motor I sprayed the engine bay with a metallic silver quick, it didn't hold up at all. This year I decided to do it right and then some.
My buddy from my Unity Racing crew paints cars for a living so he came over with all the supplies and a good gun and went to town. A few layers of sebring silver metallic(the color of my car) and 5 coats of high quality clearcoat and it looks just amazing.
I have also made the hole already for the hide wire mod on passenger side, filled in all the little factory holes with expoxy and sanded them flush before painting, will be relocating the fuse boxes on drivers side to underneath the frame so they are hidden(my buddy did this, came out nice) and got my hands on a billingsley ABS delete block as well. Everything in this by will be black, silver or polished(almost done with all that as well)
Here's some pics..a Before one, then some after ones, along with a pic of the car all masked off..you will notice we didn't mess around, covered the entire car with about 200 yards worth of paper and tape.
These pics do NOT do it justice, for some reason the camera didn't capture it well...this bay looks just like the brand new silver on the outside of the car, super deep and very very nice, my buddy did one helluva job. He sprayed and clearcoated EVERYTHING, firewall, frame rails, everything up to the bumper, radiator core support, you name it its done
Motor and trans are out, last year when putting in the new motor I sprayed the engine bay with a metallic silver quick, it didn't hold up at all. This year I decided to do it right and then some.
My buddy from my Unity Racing crew paints cars for a living so he came over with all the supplies and a good gun and went to town. A few layers of sebring silver metallic(the color of my car) and 5 coats of high quality clearcoat and it looks just amazing.
I have also made the hole already for the hide wire mod on passenger side, filled in all the little factory holes with expoxy and sanded them flush before painting, will be relocating the fuse boxes on drivers side to underneath the frame so they are hidden(my buddy did this, came out nice) and got my hands on a billingsley ABS delete block as well. Everything in this by will be black, silver or polished(almost done with all that as well)
Here's some pics..a Before one, then some after ones, along with a pic of the car all masked off..you will notice we didn't mess around, covered the entire car with about 200 yards worth of paper and tape.
These pics do NOT do it justice, for some reason the camera didn't capture it well...this bay looks just like the brand new silver on the outside of the car, super deep and very very nice, my buddy did one helluva job. He sprayed and clearcoated EVERYTHING, firewall, frame rails, everything up to the bumper, radiator core support, you name it its done
and when u gonna fix the big gouge? Or does the crap tastic lid hide that? Looks pretty good 
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12-13-2004, 01:54 PM
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Looks good, and yeah, I bet those pics do it no justice. Gotta get some more lighting in there!
Only thing I'd change is..that crew name. Sounds like it's from Captain Planet or something.
Only thing I'd change is..that crew name. Sounds like it's from Captain Planet or something.
12-13-2004, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by epic
Looks good, and yeah, I bet those pics do it no justice. Gotta get some more lighting in there!
Only thing I'd change is..that crew name. Sounds like it's from Captain Planet or something.
Only thing I'd change is..that crew name. Sounds like it's from Captain Planet or something.
12-13-2004, 05:31 PM
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what my buddy told me to do what this:
went and got a bottle of window cleaner WITH ammonia and a pack of green SOS pads from home depot.
I then proceeded to soak everything in the glass cleaner and just start scrubbing. what you want to accomplish is to just dull the factory paint/clear and get everything super clean. Other than that it was a matter of removing everything out of the way and into the middle of the engine bay so he could do the work.
went and got a bottle of window cleaner WITH ammonia and a pack of green SOS pads from home depot.
I then proceeded to soak everything in the glass cleaner and just start scrubbing. what you want to accomplish is to just dull the factory paint/clear and get everything super clean. Other than that it was a matter of removing everything out of the way and into the middle of the engine bay so he could do the work.
12-14-2004, 11:34 AM
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Wow looks great!
Friend of mine has an Electron Pearl Blue Trans Am, finally painted his engine bay the same color--it was white for a year or so with a blue car :puke:
Friend of mine has an Electron Pearl Blue Trans Am, finally painted his engine bay the same color--it was white for a year or so with a blue car :puke:
12-15-2004, 02:42 PM
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its the abs delete block made by billingsley racing.
its a small billet piece that replaces that big heavy and ugly *** ABS setup from the factory. takes a good chunk of weight out and looks nicer..you loose your abs obviously though.
its a small billet piece that replaces that big heavy and ugly *** ABS setup from the factory. takes a good chunk of weight out and looks nicer..you loose your abs obviously though.