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

 

Ummmm, dood.............that look sick yO! Looks really nice! What color is that?

 

Looks nice man... did you sand the engine bay down or anything, or just clean it? FIC is friggin huge..what are you runnin?

 

what color r u going to do the car or just painting the bay only
looks good

 

thats a big fmic

 

wow that looks nice ...surprisingly nice..good stuff

 

what did you use to clean the bay with?

I used the green stuff but it only cleans up to a level

 

spray can?

 

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

 

BTW thanks for the compliments everyone. Sorry for the shitty digicam. Looks better in person.

 

 

nice job i like it

 

Good job, and nice color choice. ;}

 

I like it. thats the same color I painted my valve cover. Looks like a really nice gunmetal just a little darker.

 

That's sick
I can already see a nice ride is in the works.

 

nice work man.. i did the same to mine.. i painted mine flat black.. looks sick!! keep up the work

 

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...

 

no sanding.. didnt scuff it at all? HHmm.. sure hope it sticks and doesnt start flaking on you. good luck

 

Block paint will stick to anything -- looks awesome, you should paint your whole car with the rattle can

 

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Yup, Ive spray canned a lot of things, and good luck with it sticking...

 

tony likes

 

Looks good, how many cans did it take?

 

thats a nasty bitch looks damn good

 

Looks great man!

 

awesome work, nice color, and the IC is the best..lol, you deserve a