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Mar 20, 2012 | 07:35 AM

themealonwheels

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Painted My Coils

... Great little mod! While I was in there, I also replaced the hardware with stainless, no more cut hands while changing spark plugs! Well, less blood anyway, LOL

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Now I just have to fill all the engine bay holes and repaint the shock towers, and I think I'll be happy.

Man, why didn't I do all this with the engine out...

Mar 20, 2012 | 07:47 AM

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looks good im dreading doing my engine bay work with the engine in when i get back to the states....yay army telling me to go to korea mid engine swap haha

Mar 20, 2012 | 07:57 AM

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Looks very good with your FAST.

Mar 20, 2012 | 08:07 AM

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Looks real good.

Mar 20, 2012 | 08:32 AM

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Looks good. what did you use? I may paint mine soon.

Mar 20, 2012 | 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by spikester7878

looks good im dreading doing my engine bay work with the engine in when i get back to the states....yay army telling me to go to korea mid engine swap haha

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Originally Posted by z-camaro

Looks very good with your FAST.

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Originally Posted by Simplɘ Jack

Looks real good.

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Originally Posted by lethal bird

Looks good. what did you use? I may paint mine soon.

Thanks for the comments, guys

I really wish I had done this earlier, because it seriously makes a difference trying to get to the rear spark plug and wires. All of those bolts with points and tips and those plastic clips for the harnesses used to rip up my arms pretty badly.

... Aaaand of course it gave me the opportunity to tie in the intake a bit more

The coils were just cleaned up with Purple Power, washed, then rattle canned with sandable primer, white gloss and an enamel clear gloss. I probably used $20 in supplies with the cleaner, tape and paints. The hardware was probably another $15-$20.

Mar 20, 2012 | 08:57 AM

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I'm loving this too.. curious what bolts you used and paint also.. I know the fusion paint would stick good but can't imagine it holding up to engine bay temps..

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Mar 20, 2012 | 11:01 AM

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I'm loving this too.. curious what bolts you used and paint also.. I know the fusion paint would stick good but can't imagine it holding up to engine bay temps..

The bolts were M6x1.0 20 stainless bolts from Lowes. They sold them in 5 packs, I needed 16 for the coils and 10 for the brackets. So I have some spares, lol... the paint I used was Rustoleum "automotive formulation" from Lowes, whatever that means. I don't believe it's formulated for high temp applications, but the FAST is done in the same paint and has held up fine so far. I guess I could repaint them if I saw that temperature was an issue, but it made it through a heat cycle yesterday without any indication of issues... time will tell?

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Very nice! Have fun keeping up on the cleaning on that

Lol, yeah, I thought of that as I was doing this. I briefly thought of painting the brackets white and the coils blue, but that would have been IMPOSSIBLE to clean!

Actually, getting rid of all the bolts with tall heads and spikes as well as getting rid of the plastic clips has really improved the accessibility of the area. I think wiping them down will be easier than before, but yeah... I was asking for trouble painting them white