I did some painting of my intake manifold, throttle body and the plastic front cover that I thought I would share as it turned out fantastic.

The paint I used for this project was VHT wrinkle (also used on my valve covers, great stuff) and Duplicolor Red Metal Speck & standard gloss black.






Engine Cover Steps:

1. 3 coats for a base of the Red Metal Speck then allow to fully cure

2. Placed a vinyl Cadillac and LS6 decal down

3. Spray 3 coats of gloss black over decals and let fully cure

4. Remove decals to expose the red

5. 1 thin and 2 very thick coats of clear with quick spray times between each coat to created a cracked look and allow to fully cure

6. After drying I masked off the areas over the decal then sprayed 3 layers of VHT wrinkle paint. [\List]

Link to the LS6 Vinyl Decal I Used: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MG2012-LS6-P...e8000d&vxp=mtr

Results:












I also powder coated my calipers yellow, put black Brembo decals on the sprayed clear over which I will share in another post.

 

Looks great i like it!

 

Looks good,did my vc with that stuff,its great,heat gun helps but not needed

 

I'm diggin the intake... Nice job

 

You should hit it with another coat of clear or something to make the masked areas around the Cadillac and LS6 blend in, but otherwise I think it looks great.

 

Looks good! Did the ls2 tb and adapter help power or throttle response at all?

 

Looks good. Where is that strut tower brace from?

 

Seeing this reminds me I need a radiator cover. LOL

 

It has by a considerable amount! I also had the throttle body ported by Cory at LS2 Port Works out here.

 

I fabricated it up myself and had it powder coated black, incredibly stronger than the tin can one that came with the car!


Thanks everyone for the compliments!