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Old 03-17-2010, 05:44 PM
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Default Painted my engine bay today

it was all scraped up and u know how are engine bays are dull so i scuffed it got some primer and some gm bright red spary paint and went to work i just ordered little rubber gromments to fill the holes didint feel like using bondo and i know i still have to paint my lid

heres the only before its hard to tell you can see some scratches on the left there was alot of them


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looks good.
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very nice. you should've filled in the holes while you were at it.
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for the holes....a good quick fix is to put painted pushpins in then that have the round tops.
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do you have any during photos? what did you mask and tape and remove? it looks great. clean wiperless cowl too
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Looks real good man!
Old 03-18-2010, 11:14 AM
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Wish mine looked that good. What did you use to paint it?
Old 03-18-2010, 12:15 PM
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Looks good, but too much trouble for a little extra gloss
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Looks great man my engine bay ugly LOL
I'm painting my car electron blue in a week, orginal color was blk & idk should I repaint blk inside or electron blue still undecided,
urs Looks great!!

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What brand/color paint did you use?
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HWY....i just notices that you relocated the battery/fuse boxes and put covers in it's place........did you get that idea from me? It looks good!
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Id like to know what paint you used also and where you relocated the fuses. Looks good!
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Looks great! Only thing I'm not digging is the red wire loom...
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i went to pepboys and baught duplicolor automotive paint it comes in a small spray can very easy to use and comes out great. from start to finish it only took me about 2 hours well worth it the fuses are right below where they used to be just had to make the hole a tiny bigger yea i hate the red loom also thats next to go switching to black my car came with it and i just never had the urge to fix it untill i started cleanning up the look of the engine bay
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HWY....i just notices that you relocated the battery/fuse boxes and put covers in it's place........did you get that idea from me? It looks good!
yea i got the idea from you thanks but ur engine bay puts mine to shame i love yours its simple but perfect
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Thanks man....what did you use to make the covers...lexan?
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went to home depot and got some cheap thin plexi and cut it i plan on rerapping it in black the red gets so dirty
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that looks 10x better
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the painted black lid w the emblempros ws6 looks dope

when you paint your lid definitely do something along those lines
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thanks i was either going to paint it black or silver to match my manifold cant decide yet
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So you did this with everything still in the engine? Just taped off and went to spraying?


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