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Old 12-30-2012, 09:31 PM
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Thinking about painting the ugly black headlight brackets white to match my engine bay of my trans am. Has anone done this? Pics?
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ill be doing this before i swap my 6.0...along with an entire engine bay search for that engine bay thread... there are some nice ones in there
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I think it'll look good IF you also plan on doing radiator support piece at the same time (the main piece they bolt to), otherwise the new white may look bad against the older stuff.

I don't think you can go wrong giving them a fresh coat of black though.

unfortunately all of my pics are looking back into the engine bay and don't show the brackets that well. But a quick repaint in black did the job for me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/la-rue/7916089020/
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Originally Posted by crimson_bird
I think it'll look good IF you also plan on doing radiator support piece at the same time (the main piece they bolt to), otherwise the new white may look bad against the older stuff.

I don't think you can go wrong giving them a fresh coat of black though.

unfortunately all of my pics are looking back into the engine bay and don't show the brackets that well. But a quick repaint in black did the job for me.
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What about on a NBM car? Would black radiatior support and brackets look good? It a camaro btw. I really want tí paint the bay gloss black but I haven't seen a gloss black bay on a NBM car yet.
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Jeeez what did you do prep work wise. And is that carbon fiber?!? Looks nice!!

How did you prep and what paint did you use on the engine bays and plastics?
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Crimson's bay is sweet....



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