Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by maxcichon
Here's the other:
Not sure what I'll do with the center bubble yet, but I want to use exactly what color paint you used on the outter part. Don't want it too shiney, semi-flat like your's looks like.
Thanks in advance
Paul
Maybe I'll PM you too.
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Maxcichon,
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by imabenz
Maxcichon,
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
For the lettering, I used paint pens I found in the artsy-craftsy department at Wal Mart. It's a pain, but looks cool. They are available in Silver, Gold, Black, Blue and Red.
Maybe red lettering?
Have fun, you can always do it over!
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by maxcichon
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by Electric Messiah
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I can't get it out of the packaging.
You wrapped that thing up so tight, it took me 10min to get it unwrapped.
Looks great!
Bad weather tonight so I'll get it installed and snap a couple pics later this week.
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by imabenz
Maxcichon,
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
Those look great. The way you only paint the center part of the engine cover is perfect. It highlights the body color without drawing too much attention to it. I've seen the entire cover painted and I think it looks horrible.
One downside to my base coupe is that the engine compartment has no contrast and IMO doesn't look anywhere as good as the non-black Crossfires. On the non-black cars, the engine doesn't blend in with the body colors.
Any ideas for Black Crossfires besides painting them another color?
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Last edited by RMADERMAN; 01-30-2008 at 06:33 AM.
Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
SRT covers are completely different ( valve covers are exposed ). You have no choice but to paint the whole cover. Non-SRTs covers take up the whole engine bay and again, in my opinion, look horrible. To each his own. I like your painted SRT engine cover, but the rest is "WOW" in a bad way.
Originally Posted by RMADERMAN
The entire cover is painted on my daughter's XF. I don't think it looks horrible. The contrast has a "WOW" factor when you open the hood. This weekend I will paint the SRT6 on the engine. It will need to be a high temperature urethane paint.
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by imabenz
SRT covers are completely different ( valve covers are exposed ). You have no choice but to paint the whole cover. Non-SRTs covers take up the whole engine bay and again, in my opinion, look horrible. To each his own. I like your painted SRT engine cover, but the rest is "WOW" in a bad way.
Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Just a thought... If you took some vasaline and put a light coat on top of the crossfire letters before you paint, you could just wipe off the vasaline when you are done and have the nice silver letters without having to paint them. I'm going to try this on mine when I get a chance. By the way, is that chrome chrysler wing on the SRT avalable separately ?? I would like to put one on my limited.
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Re: Any New Engine Cover paint Jobs?
Originally Posted by CALL911
Just a thought... If you took some vasaline and put a light coat on top of the crossfire letters before you paint, you could just wipe off the vasaline when you are done and have the nice silver letters without having to paint them. I'm going to try this on mine when I get a chance. By the way, is that chrome chrysler wing on the SRT avalable separately ?? I would like to put one on my limited.
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By the way, Jackei, that looks nice!
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