5hours and $30 worth of paint-n-plastic later..

[sephiroth]

my 2000 MP looked like it was really starting to show her age under the hood I began to think the last time I was switching spark plugs. I had always planned to clean up the bay to make her all nice and lovely one day but put it off for about 3months, until now..

so here she is, after 2hours of 1050C paint curing and 3hours of sanding/painting /washing/wire hoseing.
I'm going to try to sand down my tower strut bar and paint it that same laser blue color the hosing is and order some NGK wires (they're blue in color) to replace the duralast ones I have now. since they're crap anyway and I wouldn't trust em past 5k. Going to try to replace some of the rusted bolts, not just for looks though, because alot of em acutaly need it, I acutaly striped the middle mani sheild one trying to take it off, so that's the reason it's missing in the picture

I will say one thing.. taking off the mani heat shield was easy, but putting it back on was a pain in the buttocks. I ended up taking off the coil pack braket again and re-painting the mani sheild and curing *again* where I had scraped the paint up aganist the rad fan assembly trying to get it back on.

I painted the coilpack brakets flat black too.. just to hid some of the surface rust that had accumulated.

anyway, tell me what you guys think about what I've done so far and any suggestions on what to do next.

 

[gone_fishin]

It looks good with the exception of the looming IMO. I guess I associate it with rice because that's all I ever see it on. Everything else looks great though, good work. Just curious, why did you choose flat black for the heatshield and not silver?

 

[sephiroth]

It looks good with the exception of the looming IMO. I guess I associate it with rice because that's all I ever see it on. Everything else looks great though, good work. Just curious, why did you choose flat black for the heatshield and not silver?

the alternative to looming is a completly new hose set for the engine bay, I'll never get that new shine to some of those hoses, I went with blue to mess around with some two-toned engine color and I'm not liking it all that much, I'll probaly replace it with black looming instead so the whole bay is three toned instead of four (silver/black/blue/yellow). Black aganist silver always looked good to me, so I picked flat black, on the opposite side of things, the only 1050C paint autozone had that was in silver had an almost chrome gloss to it which is defentaly something I don't want. I'm defentaly leaning twoard all black now though.