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Beautiful day today so I decided to detail the engine compartment. Painters special

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Old 04-23-2011, 07:58 PM
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Default Beautiful day today so I decided to detail the engine compartment. Painters special
I'll post pic's once my phone charges. Painted my valve covers, fuel rail and coil brackets. Everything looks very nice with the powder coated LS6 intake.

I also detailed my spark plug wires with some BUG OFF bug/tar remover and coated the wires with some silicone spray.

Car is down waiting for headers so I've got nothing better to do
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WTF?! Where are the pics?!
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I vote be him haha j/k
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Give me about 10 mins LOL
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Gotta finish my fat tire!
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Here you jokers go.

I wanted to paint the valve covers Pontiac blue but ended up going with flat red. I painted the Fuel rail and coil brackets with a Dark metal flake black.









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Purdy. Dog bone being painted, too?
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Originally Posted by Battle_Ravage
Purdy. Dog bone being painted, too?
Going for a billit one.

Anything else I should paint up?
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Engine mount, maybe. Nice choice with the bone. Maybe use red wire wraps.
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I think you should paint the coils the same color as the valve covers.
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Originally Posted by Battle_Ravage
Engine mount, maybe. Nice choice with the bone. Maybe use red wire wraps.
Please no red wire loom looks like **** IMHO
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I thought about that, but it would look too washed out.
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Never mind then.
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Also I would do the dog bone mount at the engine black
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Originally Posted by Battle_Ravage
Never mind then.
haha j/k
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Originally Posted by Haulin_Ls4_GxP
Also I would do the dog bone mount at the engine black
That would look good.

And NO....... to wire loom Wiring does look pretty rat nested
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Nice choice with the bone.

Gotta buy one first
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Should have had the intake powder coated flat black. I'm not very fond of the high gloss.
Oh.. well.
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Paint or powder coat the coil brackets or do what I did and chrome them
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Originally Posted by Mels SS
Paint or powder coat the coil brackets or do what I did and chrome them
Chrome valve covers, coil brackets, pulleys and fuel rails would be amazing on this car.
The fuse box cover is looking a little plain.. I might slap on some kind of a Pontiac sticker or something.
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