Painted Engine Bay Today - Opinions? (no 56K)
09-06-2003, 12:23 AM
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Painted Engine Bay Today - Opinions? (no 56K)
Most of today we spent preping and painting the engine bay in my EG street race car project. Tell me what you guys thinks:
Preping the engine bay (several hours of dissassembly):
After the first 2 coats:
After final coats and mounting IC:
How it sits at the moment:
Thanks for looking!
-Charles
CJ Motorsports
Preping the engine bay (several hours of dissassembly):
After the first 2 coats:
After final coats and mounting IC:
How it sits at the moment:
Thanks for looking!
-Charles
CJ Motorsports
Looks really nice! What color is that?
looks good
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09-06-2003, 01:42 AM
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Re: (skt)
First I post more pics with the bumper back on now... then I answer questions.
Ok. First off I did not sand the bay or anything, it would have gotten so messy and I would have had to do a super cleaning job again, so I elected not to. The paint will stay on there, but you have to be careful. If you scratch it or something it will just scratch off somewhat easily. However I do not really care much cause I can get more cans of the paint and just spray a touchup and when it dries it will look perfect again.
The paint is a cast coat iron color engine block enamel, spray can. I use this to paint all my suspension stuff after sand blasting and what not. I will post the suspension and brakes setup for this car by next week when I have it all on.
Later the car will be repainted the factory red. I just took care of the engine bay for now cause the engine is out. The engine going is a super crazy mad built H22A w/ Precision SC61. The intercooler is the standard Greddy Type 24 kit.
The engine bay was sprayed with simple green automotice grade, then pressure washed with this crazy pressure washer i have that will take the paint off if you dont move fast, I did this 3 times over. the suspension crossmember has the same treatment as the engine bay but is not installed yet.
-Charles
Ok. First off I did not sand the bay or anything, it would have gotten so messy and I would have had to do a super cleaning job again, so I elected not to. The paint will stay on there, but you have to be careful. If you scratch it or something it will just scratch off somewhat easily. However I do not really care much cause I can get more cans of the paint and just spray a touchup and when it dries it will look perfect again.
The paint is a cast coat iron color engine block enamel, spray can. I use this to paint all my suspension stuff after sand blasting and what not. I will post the suspension and brakes setup for this car by next week when I have it all on.
Later the car will be repainted the factory red. I just took care of the engine bay for now cause the engine is out. The engine going is a super crazy mad built H22A w/ Precision SC61. The intercooler is the standard Greddy Type 24 kit.
The engine bay was sprayed with simple green automotice grade, then pressure washed with this crazy pressure washer i have that will take the paint off if you dont move fast, I did this 3 times over. the suspension crossmember has the same treatment as the engine bay but is not installed yet.
-Charles
09-06-2003, 05:33 AM
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Re: (turbod16y7vtec)
i looked at one of the pictures and was like DOH! he painted the brake and clutch MC!! but you cleaned it up and it turned out better than i thought it would...
09-06-2003, 06:07 AM
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Re: (CRX_VTEC)
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CRX_VTEC »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">no sanding.. didnt scuff it at all? HHmm.. sure hope it sticks and doesnt start flaking on you. good luck</TD></TR></TABLE>
Yup, Ive spray canned a lot of things, and good luck with it sticking...
Yup, Ive spray canned a lot of things, and good luck with it sticking...
