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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:23 PM
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Default Cleaning up Engine Bay. How am i doing so far?

at first engine was already red.



then my gay friend painted all over my engine bay red. dam bastard







then i started to take out all the paint on the cover n decided to shave off the letters and clean up a bit.







any1 kno how i can get the paint off of the other things? should i use acetone on the other stuff or is there sumthin else i can use.
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:24 PM
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if you wanna get paint off, aircraft thinner
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:26 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by core3200tm &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if you wanna get paint off, aircraft thinner </TD></TR></TABLE>

paint stripper or aircraft paint remover.
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:28 PM
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i wanan get the paint off of the head n the intake manifold
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:33 PM
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VC looks a lot better
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:42 PM
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that valve cover is the only thing shiny and clean in your whole engine bay hahaha. Nice job though..
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:44 PM
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You might wanna think about tightening that ground on the valve cover sometime in the near future
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:53 PM
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haha i jux noticed that
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:54 PM
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its onli a start. got a whole lot more to go
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 08:55 PM
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Why did your let your gay friend paint your vavle cover like that? Now it looks better.
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 09:04 PM
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looks better
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 10:00 PM
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what did you use to clean it up soo good ?
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 10:04 PM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DEESEE_JERMZ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">looks better</TD></TR></TABLE>
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 10:16 PM
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it gives it a subtle bling factor..


i like it
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Old Jan 20, 2006 | 10:17 PM
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looks better
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 09:03 AM
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to tell u the truth i used some armoral to wipe down some of the engine bay
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 09:08 AM
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 10:12 AM
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beter than red
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 10:14 AM
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not bad
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 10:16 AM
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looks better, but why didn't you take it off in the first place?
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 10:22 AM
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Looks better .... Do a wire tuck and will look a whole lot cleaner!
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 11:20 AM
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So you painted your valve cover and what else?
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 12:17 PM
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Kill your friend.

Looks better now though.
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 12:20 PM
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Old Jan 21, 2006 | 04:38 PM
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is wire tucking hard to do? i want to clean up the distributor and motor mounts alittle and was wondering wat could i use.
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