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Apr 24, 2012 | 06:03 PM

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xfire92

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Painting my engine cover

I want to paint my engine cover to match the color of my car. Iv looked at alot of threads but i have yet to see a clear answer on what kind of paint to use. So if anyone knows what kind of paint to use so that the heat wont make it flake off, and the process of prepping the engine cover, that would be great to know. Thanks!

Apr 24, 2012 | 06:44 PM

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acrispy1

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Re: Painting my engine cover

I used car paint..

Apr 24, 2012 | 06:55 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

ok and you havent had any problems with it flaking off or not sticking? thats all im worried about since its plastic and gets hot

Apr 24, 2012 | 06:59 PM

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acrispy1

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ok and you havent had any problems with it flaking off or not sticking? thats all im worried about since its plastic and gets hot

No problems..

Apr 24, 2012 | 07:34 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

Awesome. Thank you for the help, i really appreciate it

Apr 24, 2012 | 09:05 PM

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acrispy1

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Your welcome and please post pics when done..

May 12, 2012 | 03:21 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

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Your welcome and please post pics when done..

Here it is guys. i think it looks good. what you think?

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May 12, 2012 | 03:51 PM

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Mrmiata

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Re: Painting my engine cover

Looks good ! Now what is the trick to keeping the letters silver on top? I've seen several done that way..

May 12, 2012 | 03:53 PM

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nice job!!!

May 12, 2012 | 04:20 PM

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JHM2K

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Re: Painting my engine cover

Very clean job, looks great!!

May 12, 2012 | 04:26 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

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Looks good ! Now what is the trick to keeping the letters silver on top? I've seen several done that way..

The only thing i taped off was the part that is still silver in the middle, the sprayed the paint. after it dried i took some silver paint and a small paint brush and just hand painted the letters back to silver...its basically impossible to keep them the original silver. in the picture you can see where i taped off with blue tape

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May 12, 2012 | 08:01 PM

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ala_xfire

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Re: Painting my engine cover

Nice job !

Is that an 8 year old ORIGINAL battery I see ?

May 12, 2012 | 08:07 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

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Nice job !

Is that an 8 year old ORIGINAL battery I see ?

Sure is. everything on the car is still original...except for the color of the engine cover now of course.

May 12, 2012 | 08:21 PM

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ala_xfire

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Re: Painting my engine cover

you have lived a charmed life, my friend.

I'm sure you have seen all the horror story threads about old batteries, right ?

( I should talk, mine is now 4 years old, and it was a replacement. )

May 12, 2012 | 08:24 PM

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xfire92

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Re: Painting my engine cover

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you have lived a charmed life, my friend.

I'm sure you have seen all the horror story threads about old batteries, right ?

( I should talk, mine is now 4 years old, and it was a replacement. )

Ha no not yet. might have to look into that tho. the car only has 42000 miles on it so it hasnt even been broken in yet. thats probably why it still has the original battery in it

Jul 30, 2012 | 09:40 PM

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Indycrossfire04

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Re: Painting my engine cover

Sorry I didn't see this thread the other day. I just painted the engine cover from my 04 coupe. I decided to go a little more custom...pics coming soon!

Mar 12, 2013 | 04:14 PM

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Re: Painting my engine cover

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Here it is guys. i think it looks good. what you think?

Sorry to re-boot an old thread but that looks fantastic, has it lasted ok over the months?

Mine has some paint missing at the front and I want to re-paint it, did you use a conventional primer?