Been doing a little detail work today.

[RipperXX]

Originally I had painted the upper T-belt cover black, with some normal Krylon semi flat black spray paint. Came out real well, I liked it and all was good. Until about a yr later. The throttle cable keeps touching the edge and had rubbed the paint off, to where you could see the the original silver plastic finish.


Soo, I got a can of black textured truck bed liner from Wally world. And heres the result. Pretty much a wrinkle finish, except it's rougher. I like it

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I also had the splash shields off, cleaned them up a little and sprayed them with some black rubberized undercoat.

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In the 2nd pic you will notice the red powder coated dejon intake pipe. I am thinking about cutting the recirculation tube off of it, welding it closed, and spraying it with the same truck bed liner. What do you guys think? Think it would look better? I was thinking it would make it look more OEM, and less "HEY LOOK AT ME"

I just originally capped it off since I am not using it anymore, but thought I might one day. But since I don't plan to ever go back to a MAS setup. I don't see any need to keep it, and since that will ruin the finish anyway. Why not just spray it with the above mentioned stuff vs having to have it re-powder coated.

 

[Bubbs Malone]

I like the clean matte look, how does that stuff hold up to the heat? I think the intake pipe done black would help the red stand out better in other places, I like the idea.

 

[Spoolin18]

looks good, you think it will hold up? Is it a pretty tough finish?

 

[RipperXX]

Oh yea, once it fully hardens (which takes a day or two) it's a really hard, rough finish. I duno about the heat, but far as abrasion it shouldn't even be a remote problem. And I doubt he will be an issue. I used this same stuff on my engine mounts (with black urethane) and they still look great as well.

 

[moi1463]

Nice!

 

[Spoolin18]

Looks tight, what kind of prep work did you do before applying it? Some light sanding I imagine?

 

[RipperXX]

Thumbs down, but you say you like it?


It's funny you should ask... I applied a heavy coat of the truck bed liner the first attempt. Now before I go on, the stuff dry's pretty quick when applied in thin coats. Now that said I put on a heavy first coat, which stayed wet for a while, and apparently the paint that was already on there and it did not get along, it bubbled up like paint stripper would to paint on metal. I let it dry for a couple hr's and it pealed off like really thin electrical tape .

Sooo take two then with the old paint removed...via attempt one's um failure? Applied two thin coats and wala near flawless!

 

[whiteflash]

looks good, definitely do the intake pipe. Is the spark plug cover sprayed too?

 

[RipperXX]

Nope, it's just new. I think it is a copy of the OEM. Hence the symbol and letters are not painted, but it's otherwise a 100% perfect copy.....and it's not warped like old OEM ones

 

[SpawnedX]

I wanna paint my car with bedliner. No seriously, first scuff it up, use Rustoleum rust converter and then a quick layer of Rustoleum matte black, then a layer of bedliner. I think it will look hot.

 

[RipperXX]

Not with this stuff it wouldn't. As stated above in one of my posts. Normal paint and the truck bed liner don't get along to well... If you were to apply it in very thin coats so they could quickly dry it might work fine but just going to town on it would strip the paint back off. When I coated my engine mounts I sand blasted them first, then sprayed it on. I would say a bare metal finish would be best, next best maybe primer then the liner.

 

[Spoolin18]

Thumbs down, but you say you like it?


It's funny you should ask... I applied a heavy coat of the truck bed liner the first attempt. Now before I go on, the stuff dry's pretty quick when applied in thin coats. Now that said I put on a heavy first coat, which stayed wet for a while, and apparently the paint that was already on there and it did not get along, it bubbled up like paint stripper would to paint on metal. I let it dry for a couple hr's and it pealed off like really thin electrical tape .

Sooo take two then with the old paint removed...via attempt one's um failure? Applied two thin coats and wala near flawless!

No, I like it. I accidentaly hit the stupid thumbs down button.

 

[RipperXX]

, I thought that must be what happened. Thanks for the positive feed back.



Anyone have any ideas for the valve cover? (Rocker arm cover) I was thinking maybe strip it and have it powder coated in a champagne silver (If that color exists in powder coat) And polish the letters.

I have done the shaved red/black thing, I sold that one and put this OEM one in it's place. I have no interest in shaving it. And I can't think of much else to do with it except for the above stated idea.

 

[badabing33a]

I was thinking of doing somethng like this. Now that I see it turned out well for you, I will give it a try. Did you say how it held up with heat?

 

[RipperXX]

So far it's fine, but I have not really done any "high heat" testing... I am thinking about spraying some scrap metal with it, letting it dry and subjecting it to high heat just to see how well and long it holds up.

 

[badabing33a]

I painted my Upper Timing Belt cover today with Black Primer. It looks very nice. Exactly like yours. It layed on there very well. Thanks for the motivation.

 

[turbowop]

Definitely lose the red intake pipe and cut off the recirc tube. I think it would look better gloss black like your intercooler piping though, rather than the matte finish used on the items you just sprayed.

 

[RipperXX]

Me too, but I don't think it's really going to matter, after giving it a little more thought. I'm going to insulate the intake pipe, and intercooler pipes (when I re-route them) So the pipes them selfs wont even be seen then.

 

[turbowop]

I wouldn't even bother insulating them. I log intake temps after the intercooler and even going up long grades that pull 5psi while cruising for 5mins, intake temps are never more than a few degrees above ambient. My piping is stainless and the lower pipe even runs over the exhaust manifold.

 

[RipperXX]

Well I will be going from SS piping to aluminum, re-routing it, and insulating it. I am trying to engineer this car how I want it.

 

[Eclipsed]

im always doing detail work to parts under the hood. something will look a little too dirty or have some rust, so i go nuts painting stuff.

 

[thewraith]

I had red engine paint on my old timing cover and it held up fine and looked great.

 

[1Gab Laser]

How do you guys get the plastics under the hood to come out so good?

Both the spark plug cover and timing belt cover on mine came out horrible. I tried both gloss black spray and moulding paint. I can't really explain it but the paint separates and runs and leaves spots bare, then all runs to the edges. It's like there's oil that the paint can't adhere to, but I've tried all kinds of oil/gunk removers, tried taking a fine grit sand paper to it. No matter what, it still does it.

After like 3 days I got it to look somewhat decent, but there's still a big line right across the top of the belt cover and runs all down the side.

 

[thewraith]

Do you use primer? Did you spray very little at a time?

 

[badabing33a]

How do you guys get the plastics under the hood to come out so good?

Both the spark plug cover and timing belt cover on mine came out horrible. I tried both gloss black spray and moulding paint. I can't really explain it but the paint separates and runs and leaves spots bare, then all runs to the edges. It's like there's oil that the paint can't adhere to, but I've tried all kinds of oil/gunk removers, tried taking a fine grit sand paper to it. No matter what, it still does it.

After like 3 days I got it to look somewhat decent, but there's still a big line right across the top of the belt cover and runs all down the side.

Gloss black spray paint wont come out good on plastic. Use black primer or flat black paint and it will come out alot better.