Engine Cover Feeler
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by chill_dog
Paint it, it's very easy...that's why mine's flat black as opposed to silver.
Oh yeah, the floating skull was cool...very sinister.
Oh yeah, the floating skull was cool...very sinister.
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From: Lake Wylie
^^^Much better! There's something very evil about that thing...I love it!!
A bronze engine cover and CAI, or even gunmetal, would look great on your car. Quit dicking around, buy some high heat paint, and get it done.
A bronze engine cover and CAI, or even gunmetal, would look great on your car. Quit dicking around, buy some high heat paint, and get it done.
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by chill_dog
^^^Much better! There's something very evil about that thing...I love it!!
A bronze engine cover and CAI, or even gunmetal, would look great on your car. Quit dicking around, buy some high heat paint, and get it done.
A bronze engine cover and CAI, or even gunmetal, would look great on your car. Quit dicking around, buy some high heat paint, and get it done.
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by chill_dog
Here...use PS to make the car NBP and play with the colors. Personally, I would make the CAI the same color as the engine cover, whatever color you decide.
Maybe I should just go blue and eliminate the headache?
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From: Lake Wylie
Please, do not paint it blue. Your car looks good; that will not. There is nothing easier than removing and painting these two things.
If you're trying to save work, why not just paint the CAI flat black? Continue the black theme and it matches everything in the engine bay.
If you're trying to save work, why not just paint the CAI flat black? Continue the black theme and it matches everything in the engine bay.
Originally Posted by sT04Louis
Was surfing around a RSX forum and got the idea from a valve cover someone has made.
I know its one of those things that some people will like and others wont.
Doing it mainly as a "nostalgic" reminder of what our cars have come from.
And before anyone jumps all over me with the "its a usdm car...not made in japan" read again the line above this..Its not just about this car, but the long line of acuras/hondas before the TL.
Enough yappin...here is what i got planned.
The Japan Rising Sun Flag using the oil cap as the sun, and painting on the rays...
Like it or not...im kinda digging the idea, and photochop...and after all, if i dont like it a quick sanding and a new coat of bronze and im back to normal.
Let me know
I know its one of those things that some people will like and others wont.
Doing it mainly as a "nostalgic" reminder of what our cars have come from.
And before anyone jumps all over me with the "its a usdm car...not made in japan" read again the line above this..Its not just about this car, but the long line of acuras/hondas before the TL.
Enough yappin...here is what i got planned.
The Japan Rising Sun Flag using the oil cap as the sun, and painting on the rays...
Like it or not...im kinda digging the idea, and photochop...and after all, if i dont like it a quick sanding and a new coat of bronze and im back to normal.
Let me know
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by chill_dog
Is your engine cover already painted? If not, I don't really see the need to sand it down. As for coats, I'd do three or four.
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by chill_dog
Please, do not paint it blue. Your car looks good; that will not. There is nothing easier than removing and painting these two things.
If you're trying to save work, why not just paint the CAI flat black? Continue the black theme and it matches everything in the engine bay.
If you're trying to save work, why not just paint the CAI flat black? Continue the black theme and it matches everything in the engine bay.
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From: Lake Wylie
Good!
I'm guessing you didn't install it...turn your wheels to the right, pull back the fender liner, remove the filter, uncouple the CAI...it takes ten minutes tops. The last time I did it, I actually removed the wheel to give myself more room to work with, but that's not a big deal to me. There's a pipe clamp holding the filter on (you have to remove the filter because it's too big to pull up into the engine bay); there's the nut/bolt holding the support to the wheel well; and there's the pipe clamp holding the CAI to the TB.
I didn't sand mine. I took it out of the box, wiped it down, masked the stickers, put it on a stick I stuck in the ground, and sprayed it. Three coats later, I put it in the car.
I'm guessing you didn't install it...turn your wheels to the right, pull back the fender liner, remove the filter, uncouple the CAI...it takes ten minutes tops. The last time I did it, I actually removed the wheel to give myself more room to work with, but that's not a big deal to me. There's a pipe clamp holding the filter on (you have to remove the filter because it's too big to pull up into the engine bay); there's the nut/bolt holding the support to the wheel well; and there's the pipe clamp holding the CAI to the TB.
I didn't sand mine. I took it out of the box, wiped it down, masked the stickers, put it on a stick I stuck in the ground, and sprayed it. Three coats later, I put it in the car.
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Originally Posted by darksom1
Hey St. Lous, how long it take you to do that bronze job?
Anyways, with the method i posted up earlier in the thread...a hour or so...i was doing like 3 other things at the same time too, only long part is waiting between each coat.
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Originally Posted by ballinfizzle89
Gold looks pretty badass too.
Hmmmm...now, what color to pick?
Hmmmm...now, what color to pick?
Here is the link to his thread on the gold engine cover.
https://acurazine.com/forums/religion-politics-18/canadas-soft-power-falls-flat-165356/
Dont do blue
and skull
compared to Stella haha
Ray...gunmetal will definitely be ordinary looking. If you want to change it up with gunmetal, I would add more gunmetal, like CAI/Engine Cover/Front Bar...That might look better?..I just said gunmetal like 8 times
What about me guys? What color should I go with?
and skull compared to Stella hahaRay...gunmetal will definitely be ordinary looking. If you want to change it up with gunmetal, I would add more gunmetal, like CAI/Engine Cover/Front Bar...That might look better?..I just said gunmetal like 8 times
What about me guys? What color should I go with?
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From: Germantown, MD
Originally Posted by ballinfizzle89
Dont do blue and skull compared to Stella haha
Ray...gunmetal will definitely be ordinary looking. If you want to change it up with gunmetal, I would add more gunmetal, like CAI/Engine Cover/Front Bar...That might look better?..I just said gunmetal like 8 times
What about me guys? What color should I go with?
and skull compared to Stella hahaRay...gunmetal will definitely be ordinary looking. If you want to change it up with gunmetal, I would add more gunmetal, like CAI/Engine Cover/Front Bar...That might look better?..I just said gunmetal like 8 times
What about me guys? What color should I go with?
As for skull, I just did that for Chill_dog...he'll be back later tho if I want to switch it up...But for now...(her name is no longer Stella)...NBP!
Thanks for the mod tips Chill & St. Louis!!
Originally Posted by darksom1
The one that I don't...
As for skull, I just did that for Chill_dog...he'll be back later tho if I want to switch it up...But for now...(her name is no longer Stella)...NBP!
Thanks for the mod tips Chill & St. Louis!!
As for skull, I just did that for Chill_dog...he'll be back later tho if I want to switch it up...But for now...(her name is no longer Stella)...NBP!
Thanks for the mod tips Chill & St. Louis!!
What about mine!
hahaI'm definitely doing something this weekend
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From: Lake Wylie
No problem...looking forward to seeing the results (of everybody's). Me, I'll just be washing the car, going to the car show, and watching football this weekend. Normally that would be great, but both of my teams (Panthers, Redskins) are going to get killed Sunday .
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ST04Louis..where did you pick up the engine paint in bronze? I checked out Discount Auto and they had like 30 different engine paints, but al of them were Red/Yellow/Green/etc. They had silver, might just go with that. Also, I saw that they had copper auto paint, for the exterior, do you think that would work even though its not heat resistant?
ST04Louis..where did you pick up the engine paint in bronze? I checked out Discount Auto and they had like 30 different engine paints, but al of them were Red/Yellow/Green/etc. They had silver, might just go with that
. Also, I saw that they had copper auto paint, for the exterior, do you think that would work even though its not heat resistant?
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Here is one of the issues you will run into ... and I did , is the rubber weather stipping under the hood is going to mar the paint in the aread I have drawn out in yellow. In the untouched pix I could see the marks. One solution would be to add clear rockblocker or another type of film over the 3/4" areas it effects.
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Originally Posted by Jesstzn
Here is one of the issues you will run into ... and I did , is the rubber weather stipping under the hood is going to mar the paint in the aread I have drawn out in yellow. In the untouched pix I could see the marks. One solution would be to add clear rockblocker or another type of film over the 3/4" areas it effects.
I have had no problems with mine doing this, each time i wash my car i wipe down the stripping and the panel.
Oh btw...its done.
Resizing now, then gonna make a new thread since this one is already to 3 pages. Ill drop a link in here.
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Here is the link to the new thread in the photo gallery
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...50#post1891550
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...50#post1891550
Originally Posted by ballinfizzle89
Gold looks pretty badass too.
Hmmmm...now, what color to pick?
Hmmmm...now, what color to pick?
I want to ask you what kind of engine paint you used. (By the way I just ordered G2 Engine Paint Kit with the gold color) Will this paint kit give the same quality as you paint kit?
I want that glossy gold look so what can I do to achieve this goal? Thank you!
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From: Raleigh, NC - USA
Originally Posted by sT04Louis
well said
Even though im not going for the "in your face" red over white. Im keeping it subtle with black on bronze. Again another symbol of honda/acura past history showing through on the TL.
Not to bust your chops or anything but that is not the Japanese national flag, which is a red circle on a white background.
Its the Japanese naval ensign flown from ships.
That being said its a very imaginative concept..well done.
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