Engine Cover

[YellowSpeed17]

Heres what my newly painted engine cover looks like

 

[YellowSpeed17]

Another pic

 

[Elderain]

Looks nice! Where about in Jersey are you from? Im in the Piscataway/Middlesex area. Once I get my MSP this month (I will too damnit!) we should get some people together. Anyone one else here from New Jersey?

 

[servoeyes]

Nice! How'd you do that? Is it powdercoat, engine paint, or what?
Looks pretty spiff, tho...I've wanted to powdercoat the cover since I bought the car but I'm not sure of 2 things

1) cost
2) color

The first is no prob...the second is the real brick wall....

 

[YellowSpeed17]

I live in Morristown

 

[mazdaspeed Mike]

it looks brighter than the speed paint, but good work.

 

[Limited Edition]

YellowSpeed17,
What did you use to paint it? Was it a DIY project? Or did you get it professionally done?.
The paint seems to be a bit off from the pictures. Is there any metallic flakes in there?

 

[Chizzad]

im split time between Toms River and Newark(college at NJIT) and i'll have my MSP soon,...

 

[YellowSpeed17]

I used Dupli-Color Engine Enamel. And I did it myself. Theres only four nuts holding it on and I just masked the Mazdaspeed emblem with masking tape. Sprayed 5 coats at about noon and let it dry overnight. I'm going on vacation and not taking my speed so i'll take more pics when I get back.

 

[SuperSpud]

BRIGHT!!!!!!!

 

[AFaceInTheCrowd]

thanks for shrinking the pics for the 56k users

 

[SpicyRay]

im in Old Bridge-Matawan area but you can see me a lot in Edison-Metuchen...there should be a jersey meet...

 

[skilletrx]

morristown, home of seeing-eye dogz. where'd u get the paint/cost

 

[YellowSpeed17]

Sorry, I've been on vacation and just got back tonite. I got the paint at Wal-Mart and it was only like $3.50

 

[PaulMP3]

were any of you jersey msp'er the one i saw on rt. 206 in Hillsboro NJ area.

 

[HAIL-MY-SPEED]

New Jersey in the House

Perth Amboy

We have at least Four MazdaSpeeds in our town.
I have Two in my Garage

 

[Black Majik MSP]

I dug up this thread, so I figured I'd post my own pics:

(not shown in these pics are my stupid ass coolant leak & my new Forge DV that I'm testing)

 

[servoeyes]

hehe...funny. I have one of Forge's competitor's DVs on my car (stratmosphere). It's easier to adjust.

BTW, how'd you paint that cover? By how I mean, what type of paint did you use? I would assume it'll just heat up and bubble pretty quick, if it's not meant to stand the heat.

 

[Black Majik MSP]

It's called Duplicolor Metalcast & you can get it at Walmart. You buy a silver & then the color you want. By spraying red (in my case) over silver, it gives it an anodized look & it is heat resistant to 500 degrees. It's designed for painting calipers, but I'm doing mine black. I saw some pics of red covers on here & thought I'd do it myself. Together, the 2 cans are like $7.50. For anyone who wants to do theirs, you need to debadge the Mazdaspeed badge just like you would any other badge. Tape that area off, paint the cover, take the tape off, & them reattach the badge with 3m VHB tape.

 

[t3ase]

Lemme know how that holds up. Our bays get hella hot after hard runs, so I'm curious as to how it'll hold up.