Had few hours of extra time today. So I painted my engine cover in gold. I'll have to repaint the cover after sanding off some dust particles that settled down during drying process.


Engine cover off





Prepping





Finished

 

Damn that actually looks really nice. Do you have more pictures of the whole car with the hood open. Nice JOB.

 

Looks realy really good and unique. Just wonderin though, did you sand the cover at all or did you just tape it an paint?

 

i just cleaned, taped, and painted.

i think dealer scratched my engine cover while it was in service for its first oil change. that scratch shows up even after painting it. i'm going to repaint it after some sanding when i have spare time.

 

WOW, that looks great! Nice job.

 

damm, that actually looks good.

 

nice job

 

This is nuts. I am normally not a fan of gold, but I can stand behind this mod. Is it just the lighting or did you do-up the grill in gold chrome, too?

 

nice job on the paint! looks really good. the color combo isnt bad.

 

grille is chrome as usual. its just the lighting or the reflection

 

i really thought it was going to look bad too when he said what he was going to do, but i like how it looks.

it looks like he put his type-s badge on the front grill too. it looks like the grill is tinted gold

 

Guess I'm the only one not feeling it . Workmanship is top-notch, though .

 

I'm not feeling it either, I thought it was going to be WDP. Dragonloard color matched his NBP and I think it's the nines!

 

Do you have anymore pics of the "Type S" on your front grille. A head on shot would be great and a distance one.

 

Thanks! But I.....

 

I'd WDP all the covers. I've seen it before, and it looks stellar.

 

Looks great, im thinking I wanna do mine now! Hmmmm wonder what color would go with AM?

 

X2 - Maybe if it was red, that would look great!

 

Looks Good. I would've gone for something other than Gold (maybe WDP, maybe Gloss Black) but it still looks really good. Red would be nice too, but SWMBO would kill me.

Saw a post (either here or 2G) where the guy did his cover. Something like 27 coats. Sand, prime, prime, sand, color, color, sand, color, ...... sand, clear, ..... replace.

Did it body color (Royal Blue?). Looked Sick.

 

You did a great job - I'm just on the fence about the gold........

 

 

I like it! Great job!

 

you put your type s badge infront on the grill? sweet gold cover... I may do mine red (type r style lmfao)

 

at first i was thinking to paint either red or wdp but other azine member inspired me into gold. he drives pwp tsx and gold looked really good. jdm style

 

Here's to being different! Its still a great job!

-Green for the money, gold for the hunnies!

 

I was going to say eww gold, but it actually looks very tasteful! Looks very good nice job!

 

after getting heated under the engine heat, paint got much more glossier. it shines like its been coated with clearcoat.

 

How do you remove the emblem from the engine cover? I must be an idiot bc I couldn't seem to get it off.

 

behind the emblem, there's two tiny clips that are holding the emblem and i just pried it off.

 

Hopefully the 04 TL's engine cover removes similarly. I really want to try this, except I wouldn't know which color to pick .. probably red heh.

 

you just pulled the emblem off from the front, or did you just pull the little clips off with pliers or something? I tried pulling the emblem and I just felt if i kept pulling it would break off

 

Yeah It does look clearcoated, . Looks very classy!

 

for gold cover!!!! looks hott to me!!!

 

Everything is Hot about your car. Except for the "TYPE-S" emblem in the front grill. It looks out of place and you don't need that to tell it a type-s TL.

 

no I thought type s on the grill was unique touch, type s on the trunk is just blah

 

I kinda like it, it reminds me of a Mugen grill

 

i inserted flat driver underneath the acura "A" sign and pried it off. it popped right off with little force.

 

i really liked the look of my tsx's front euroR grille emblem. so i tried to make it look similar but it doesn't look that good as expected.


this was my tsx with euroR conversion before the tl-s

 

please do not take my comment about the type-s badge personally. If the "Types-s" were engrave on the middle bar of the grill, then thats is a different story.

 

so I just took off the engine cover of my TL..and honestly I was expecting it to be a PITA..so I turned the light on took my shirt off got all ready and it came off in less than 10 seconds ...hahah..Im thinking of painting it tomorrow..Deciding on color. I have NBP btw.

Mink-thanks for the inspiration! haha