Try billet aluminum covers for stuff, and braided hoses....available from a few
places, and more is coming out everyday. Cool lookin' stuff like battery covers and
master cylinder covers and stuff that are ploished aluminum, then get braided hoses
and connectors that are HEMI ORANGE (yeah!) and you'll have a trick engine bay! If I
had the $$$$ I would do it in a heartbeat!!!
-mike sykes
btw... take pictures of the finished project, that would be nice to how it comes
out.
Robert Trottmann wrote:
> What can I paint other than the valve covers? Mmmmmm Fan? Top of Radiator?
> Windsheild Fluid Res.? Random caps/lids of things like rad. power steering,
> master cylinder? This is getting fun.
> Mmmmmm replace white pinstriping w/ orange.
> You've opened up quite a can of worms here.
> Robert (orange) Trottmann
> rotrottmann@davidson.edu
> Davidson, NC
> St. Louis, MO in may
>
> DodgeBoyz3 wrote:
>
> > Robert, if you rally like orange(and I do)order a couple of cans of the MP
> > "hemi orange". It is great hi-temp paint, but use it very sparingly. Just a
> > mist coat to start, let it "tack" off and shoot again until desired coverage
> > is achieved. Just remember to take your time with it or you will have curtains
> > from hell !!
> >
> > Another note, a lot of stuff under the hood can be taped off, but some things
> > are just too hard for tape. Use aluminum foil. It is a real detailers secret
> > !!! Wash the engine cold with a solution of 1 gal water, a squeeze of dish
> > soap and about a cup of kerosene. This will remove all the oily stuff and
> > leave a good clean surface for the paint to adhere to, let it dry well though
> > and use some compressed air if you have it to blow dry the engine compartment.
> >
> > You will have a really clean and after painting, beautiful engine bay!!!
> >
> > Gene in Houston
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