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Old 09-20-2010, 02:27 PM
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Had some time so i tried to make the coil area more appealing visually on the car seing as i can no longer run the LS6 coil covers with my setup.

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Coils pulled, and reason I can no longer run the ls6 coil covers


sent these to the parts cleaner and then a final wipe down with simple green


After 3 coats of VHT wrinkle finish paint (availble at autozone) plan on a LONG wait for drying (24 hours minimum)


some wipe down with simplegreen with the bolts and sprayed with semi gloss black and installed


Coils...not the most attractive..


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Ready to paint


after a couple coats of krylon plastic paint


Harness with connector and clips sprayed semi gloss black and then wrapped with black electrical tape over the silver heat tape


re-assembled with stainless m6 allen bolts and washers from local hardware store (also painted coil brackets with wrinkle black)
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wow looks alot better. i thought you could not the coils wet, guess it shows what i know.
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Looks great!

I wish that setup would fit in my bay
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wow looks alot better. i thought you could not the coils wet, guess it shows what i know.
you mean LT1 optispark lol.. good job OP.. I like how you painted them hanging on a line like that.. I had to jimmy rig mine upright on the garage floor.. Almost looks like my setup now
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wow looks alot better. i thought you could not the coils wet, guess it shows what i know.
they are waterproof, but i did not submerge them, I only sprayed them down and wiped them clean.
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Looks good. Is krylon fusion the best kind of paint for that?
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fusion has always worked great for me
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looks great overall with big old blower up there..
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looks great. Its amazing what just a little paint does to them. I did it to mine when I did my motor swap. Looks 100 times better
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coooool

pretty happy with the grain on the covers vs the head unit?
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pretty happy with the grain on the covers vs the head unit?
yes, but i would use the heat gun a little more on inital paint aplication, it causes the "wrinkles " to be finer/smaller/tighter
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looks alot better and cleaner under there great job
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very nice. what car is this on?
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^ thats whay i was about to ask lol
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judging by his avatar ill guess a 1st gen camaro lol

looks good. i have always loved that wrinkle black from the parts store
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nice work.
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will that wrinkle paint mimic the stuff they sprayed in the back fenders of our cars? if it would id like to spray that in there to clean it up a lil bit under there and sorry to the op for thread highjacking lol
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Originally Posted by 9WhiteCamaro9
will that wrinkle paint mimic the stuff they sprayed in the back fenders of our cars? if it would id like to spray that in there to clean it up a lil bit under there and sorry to the op for thread highjacking lol
thats undercoating... wrinkle paint is different.

the car..(when it was still n/a)- the tvs clears with the flat hood... sleeper!
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Very nice!

I just got done painting my vavle covers the same paint after seing this thread maybe ill paint the coils as well!
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Looks soooo much better.. Nice work!
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