I recently had my engine bay painted while the motor was out.

My question for people that have painted their engine bays with the motor out is:

How did you prevent from slamming the crank pulley/transmission into the frame rails??

here is a picture of my engine bay, and i circled the spots that you will normally hit with the crank pulley and transmission case.



Any help would be appreciated

 

well if you have a lift for the car...you could always lower the car down onto the engine...

or just put some duct tape down over the "impact" spots and then pull it off when youre done.

after a few months of trying to keep the engine bay clean you probably wont even care about a few scratches

 

i got one of those motor angler thing that i attach to my picker...and i jus angle one side of the motor all the way while the other is done. and slipp the motor under the mount

 

tilt the engine lower on the tranny site and higher on the pulley side
slide the tranny under the frame and lower the pulley side mount in

 

looks good so far

 

a lift would be the best. other wise put some sort of protection in those areas and use the angler thing they were talking about sounds like the next best idea.

 

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slide the tranny under the frame and lower the pulley side mount in</TD></TR></TABLE>

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If you had a lift it would be all sugar, but if your doing it from the top, take off the the things that will get in the way and install them later. Crank pulley, mounts, etc. Good job on the engine bay.

 

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thanks

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yeah, i have a load leveler (the angler thing you speak of) i guess i will just have to be careful, i dont want to **** it up

 

damn that is blue!!!! great job and it looks hotttttt

 

my buddy bubble wrapped the bottom of his engine while installing it, and put some on the framerails too. i'd do that if i were you.

 

Yeah put some tape on it, like 4 layers of maskign tape, and bubble rap it.

Edit: by the way, that looks great

 

i put my motor in from underneath...then used hoist to left up and coupel friends to guide motor/tranny up into mounts...never touched the sidewalls...but then again i just had a spray can black bay not bling bling bay..good luck bro, looks good! id be scared to..

 

yeah i just cant get over how damn good that looks... i want my car to be like that!!!

 

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Yeah, i am extremely pleases with the result, i knew it was gonna look good, but not THAT good

 

tape a rag over the crank pulley, and just make sure that is the side that hits

 

That bay looks great. It reminds me of chad's blue eg.

 

just got my engine bay painted suzuka blue today.hehehe. putting the ls into tommorow I will post some pics. and its a ek ******.

 

heavy rags/ towels in the possible hit areas and take the crank pully off when your installin the engine. Go SLOW

 

damn that engine bay is bling

 

yea.. be very very careful...

ill put myself in between the motor and "impact areas"

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VtecBlissS2k &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">yea.. be very very careful...

ill put myself in between the motor and "impact areas" </TD></TR></TABLE>

sounds like a good deal to me