Looks great, nice work!

 

interested to see how it turns out

 

I'll try and get some installed pics soon.

 

I would grind them down completly smooth...I think it would look cleaner. But thats just my 2 cents, to each their own. Gonna look goood either way!

 

I had the same thoughts as well, but haven't gotten that far. I figured you get only one chance to grind them down, so I figured I'd do the logo first and see how they looked, then decide if I wanted to go completely smooth. Hell, I may grind them smooth and polish them...

 

I'm just bringing this back up top. I've got the covers pretty much cleaned up, just doing a final sand and smoothing, I may lay down a primer just to see how much more sanding / smoothing I need to do. I pulled the FAST and started to sand that smooth as well.

My fuel rails came, as well as the hoses and fittings.

My big question right now is what color do I want to do. I've been leaning towards satin black, but have kicked around the idea of a metallic black to kind of tie in with the pewter metallic, but I'm not sure.

Something like this maybe...


I'm still going back and forth between rattle can and spray gun. I'll post some pics tonight.

 

mabe glass bead them in a blaster and keep the raw cast finish?

 

Well, I've already been sanding off the Edelbrock logo as well as the raised lines.

I saw duplicolor has a textured mettalic black paint... I might try some and see how it looks. It sure would make it easier prepping the fast and covers.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metallic.html

 

Would you paint those things already! Haha jk. Looks nice

 

in for the final product

 

Well, I'm getting closer....
I got my Nasty Fuel rails and polished one of them up real quick. I'll have both fully polished and spray them with a clear to keep em looking like that.

I finally got the coil pack covers ready for some paint...


Here's an idea of what things are going to look like. I'm leaning towards painting the FAST and coil pack covers in a black metallic.

 

looks good so far i like the black metalic idea i think it will match the pewter very nice

 

Keep us posted...

 

If everything works out as planned, I'll have things installed this weekend.

 

I like them alot-------gonna look into them myself......real change in appearance for sure...

 

Well, here's another update. Nothing installed yet, but I'm in no rush since the weather is still shitty around.
I decided to go with a black pewter metallic finish. I wish my whole car was this color. The pics are from the basement, so the lighting doesn't do them any justice.

I quickly realized that I need to grind down the coil covers a little more because you can still see the 3 fins.

Here's the FAST intake.... It's not done paint wise, this was just a quick coat. It'll get a few more coats for certain.




Here's the coil pack cover and you can see that I still need to smooth them down some more.

 

Get some more coats on there and take them outside for pics to really get the paint effect.

Looks good so far

 

Well, the intake is painted, fuel rails installed, and took it out on the deck to take some pics...

Must be the camera settings, but I couldn't get the camera to truly capture what the eye sees. I'm sure the Canon digital SLR has some better settings for this type of thing, but I leave it on point and shoot.





So now I just need to finish grinding down these damn coil pack covers. Even using a grinder it's taking time. I've pretty much eaten into the disc that came with it, I might pick up a new disc to help speed up this process.

 

Looks good man. It does look like its hard to really capture the paint look. I'll have to see it in person.

 

Well, I had a couple minutes today and was able to test fit both sides. The passenger side is going to be interesting. First the dipstick needs to be bent out of the way so some new way of attatching it to the cylinder head has to be done. Also, getting #8 and #6 plug wires connected will be fun as well. There literally is no room to see or reach #8 from the top, fortunately, I have a lift and can plug in #8 from the bottom.

I need to pick up some more paint and do some more finish sanding. I do not want to have to remove the passenger side after it gets bolted up.


Looking at the driver's side, I still need to decide what I'm going to do with the e-vap line as it won't fit under the coil pack cover.