Here is a pic of my engine bay. Tell me what you would all do to make her look nice! It will be cleaned I just mean stuff like the valve cover: paint, polish, powdercoat, etc.


Updated pics! Figured no need for a new thread! Tial and K&N. I know I still havent touched the valve cover.


Any thoughts on where to mount my radiator overflow?



Modified by RedTegLS at 5:45 AM 12/27/2003

 

Do something with the val cover....

 

a new OEM valve cover and your set!

adaM

 

throw a fresh coat of black paint on that valve cover, or polish it, and get rid of that little fiter on the VC. i'd try to get matching pipe couplers aswell, just to make things flow more.

 

paint the valve cover and take a brush to the rest

 

thats a damn nice engine how much hp do you dyno at?

 

About 472 WHP.............and then I woke up and wiped the drool from my chin. I dont know how much power but its enough for traction problems all through 2nd.

 

New OEM valve cover, a good cleaning, and spray the intake a flat black

 

Reroute some wires, new valve cover, some spiffy spark plug wires, remove the cruise control, and replace the ground wire with a stereo ground wire (last one makes a world of difference).

 

take off your valve cover and use a paint thinner to remove the outer coating and leave it as is. rugged silver look to match your intake manifold.

 

I am actually thinking about having the valve cover powdercoated teh grey color in this pic! I love it! How you all feel bout it?

 

the grey would be nice if your engine bay was black. I think if you mixed the grey into the engine bay, it would clash with your red bay, goldish turbo manifold, chrome intercooler piping, and rugged ice cold grey intake manifold. but thats just me.

 

replace the valve cover with the newer ls cover

 

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i heard the newer LS v. cover wont fit an LS older head...forgot where i heard it from, but i know i heard it. ah well..

 

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That is very fashion aware of you! Very good point! How about polished? MMMMMM

 

How about good ol fashion red?

 

i'd say new plug wires, Gunk cleaner alllllll up in the engine bay. Powder coat the VC black or red (love the gloss ) powdercoat intake piping black.

 

red wouldnt be too bad, but it might clash with your dirty red.

just go with straight stripped. for a turbo ls, your valve cover will most likely heat up warping the paint unless you use a high heat paint. just a thought.

And yes. im one of those guys that color coordinates their closets.

 

Hmmmm...how about a nice VTEC head?

 

I say a stock new valve color would look good, btw: what kind of turbo manifold is that?

 

Stripped and polished

 

Give the engine bay a good cleaning. It will make a world of a difference.

 

Newer non vtec style valve cover
good scrubing on everything
fuel rail
(stick with one color)
paint or powercoat the valve color the color of your car
no mor P/S
black intercooler piping
differant color coupler (that blue sticks out like a sore thumb)
then you would be bling blang yo.

i think all that would do a HUGE differance for everything

and IMO get rid of the ABS that cluters up an engine bay

 

VTEC head would be nice. No money for a swap though after the turbo. My 103lb fiance drives the car from time to time and she wouldnt do well w/o PS. The car gets driven all year around so I like my ABS in the winter! Black powder coated charge pipe eh? Hmmmmm never thought about it. But if I polish the valve cover it would match nice. Great comments everybody! Keep them coming!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by marty &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">red wouldnt be too bad, but it might clash with your dirty red.

just go with straight stripped. for a turbo ls, your valve cover will most likely heat up warping the paint unless you use a high heat paint. just a thought.

And yes. im one of those guys that color coordinates their closets. </TD></TR></TABLE>

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