Cuz I cleaned it

 

Pfft. i liked the oxidation building up on it. Its like 10 years old, i mean come on.

 

Ok... so i just painted it the same red as the VC now... I think i like it better... i agree... it did look like a clown car... now it looks much better... oh and about the battery... I'm gettin an Optima red top soon... but besides that the engine bay is a rust bucket.

 

dont mean to hi-jack this thread, but this is what i did to my valve cover, until i man up and deciede to do the crinkle paint thing, like 650 did.

 

lookin good
what didya use to put the paint on, roller/brush... lemme kno

 

If you havent painted the valve cover yet, its easiest to tape off majority of VC, paint the letters the color you want (let dry), then go back and tape off letters or just apply vasaline over the letters and areas you already painted. then paint the back drop (rest of VC)... then when its all dry if you did it right the vasaline and VC color paint will come right off the letters. then go ahead and apply your clear coats, etc... u guys should also paint the oil cap the same color as your letters. GL!

 

...ohh and i used spray paint throughout the whole process

 

i just used a little paint brush.

 

for sure, and nope. so you painted your strut bar the same color red? Pics please

 

taping off the letters was a bitch when i started mine..
this time i will definitely just spray over them and then sand/paint them afterwards

 

VHT makes a decent red and black wrinkle paint for valve covers - pretty close to oem. just picked some up - finally found a supplier in Canada!!! If you don't have a steady hand for the vaseline trick, you can always pick up a block sander from your local hardware store and sand the paint off the letters. I haven't done mine yet - waiting for the warmer weather - going wrinkle red though!!

 

I see you have a revised air breather setup. Two questions;

First, any real difference in performance and/or gas mileage you've noticed?
Second, any difference in sound?

Thanks

 

Wee!!...

oh and again... ignore everything else that is MAD DIRTY...

and... I still havent had time for the black over the 2.2 VTEC or the washers that are blue

geez... one more thing... I plan on painting the heatshield a gray or white to get rid of the rust... but i need to buy high temp gray or white so...

 

Strut bar looks 10 x better now, now CLEAN THAT DAMN BATTERY

 

haha... thanks... but 10 x better than clown smokin bad... whats that goodish? and yea im gonna throw some coka cola on it and wipe it off... i wanna do the rest of the bay just so it looks superb...

 

just noticed that you posted that...

air breather setup is a good thing to have

1. Yes, I think I get about a few more miles per fill-up

and

2. The sound is amazing... I think it sounds better than a Secret Weapon.... ( Brad....)

and 3. its a 30 dollar one off of ebay you shoudl do it...

 

yours does sound sexy


but mine does too and I'm likin the red a lot better than the blue


btw- sorry we havent gotten around to blackhousings yet. I got a new job and this month has been really busy for me.

now back to our original topic...

 

go w/ a black exh shield....

 

dude me too... I'm working at the Y... its rough... and yes yours also does sound amazing...


sounds phat... cuz im gonna go with the black letters on top...

 

yea... im doin black w/ red letters.... i cant wait 2 c what urs turns out 2 look like.... oh yea.... get them blue washers.... n that dipstick 2....

 

off? get them off? I know about the blue washers... as I was doing it I was like... hmmm that would look sick... then i put it on .... i like the dipstick... much better than the stock orangish/brownish old lookin shit...

 

make ur dipstick red, black would even werk... just 2 go along w/ the engine bay...

 

ahhh thatd be cool... hmmm haha :evilscientistgrin: << should make that...

 

I finally got around to painting the letters black... I think it came out amazing... Oh and I scraped off some of the blue paint on the washers... ne way here are the pics...

 

Sexy sexy, did you use the vaseline trick? Did you paint them by hand? Looks real good, I still need to do my letters

 

Thanks... I just painted them with one of those model car paint brushes... it works really well and its mad easy...

I got some high temp gloss black spray paint and sprayed some into a bottle cap so i could use it as like a paint dip thing... w/e

 

Good idea

 

if you try that... have a cup to put over it cuz the spray paint comes out fast and it sprays up all over you... so cover the cap with a cup and open it just enough to let the spray paint in... or what i also tried... just spray into the cup and get enough to pour into the cap ... works good

 

Man, I'm waiting for DezCandy... to see this !!!

 

 

hahahahah

 

As promised - did the valve cover this weekend.

 

cheeeaaa. i like it.

 

thats legit

 

i like how ur NGK spark plug wires say 'NGK Spark Plug Cable'

 

I like

 

nice, this kinda makes me wanna paint my acura engine make-up.

 

Whoa whoa whoa... what did you do to your intake tube??? From that pic i think