Mazda Protege Owner Photos

[boostedprotege]

Yea I gave the whole bay a cleaning, plus I painted some of the bolt heads and washers red, the top radiator brackets black since they were getting corroded, and painted the coolant bottle black with red lettering and a strip left clear to see of course

nice man s*** looks goood!!! come do mine lol

 

[Sleezer1533]

Haha not a chance, I complain about the elements here, but the desert must be a b**** of a place to keep a clean engine bay!

 

[Sleezer1533]

Anyway the valve cover is leaking oil, so im going to be replacing that gasket, so im going to paint the valve cover as well ... what do you guys think, red with black lettering or black with red lettering?

 

[naji]

nice man.. nice, I say black with red lettering.

 

[Sleezer1533]

Yea thats what im leaning toward

 

[ajkulish]

i think i will be too. did you just spray it?

 

[Sleezer1533]

The coolant can? yea. I left a piece of tape while painting so when it was all done there was a strip so you can still see the levels. I also used the corner of a rag to paint the red onto the lettering.

On a side note, when I emptied the coolant cant, the coolant in it was more brown than green and had a sludge like substance at the bottom, is this normal?

 

[boostedprotege]

Anyway the valve cover is leaking oil, so im going to be replacing that gasket, so im going to paint the valve cover as well ... what do you guys think, red with black lettering or black with red lettering?

i say red with black letters that way when u have your hood pop it brings out all the other red on your car it'll compliment it better

 

[Sleezer1533]

I was leaning toward black with red, but now im kinda torn. Hopefully someone will get back to be with a chop in the photoshop thread so I can get a better idea

 

[ajkulish]

mine in red before i started to change other things in the engine bay. but it is still the same color

 

[Sleezer1533]

Why is the stock airbox still taking up shop in ur engine bay? Kick that s*** out lol

 

[ajkulish]

that is one of the improvements i talked of haha. done.

 

[Sleezer1533]

Haha good

 

[boostedprotege]

changed my badges to gunmetal to match the rims i like how they came out

 

[ajkulish]

thats nice!

 

[boostedprotege]

thanx man i did emm all even the one on the grille it looks dope

 

[ajkulish]

what you should really do is get model paint and a brush and paaint your protege badge so that every thing that is outlining or background is black

 

[boostedprotege]

yeah i thought bout doin it but never got around to it n i jist happen to have gunmetal paint layin around so i jist sanded emm down n painted emm today for the **** of it

 

[ajkulish]

haha i did the same in black lol
but i have the older protege badge and i painted the inside lettering red

 

[boostedprotege]

haha i did the same in black lol
but i have the older protege badge and i painted the inside lettering red

yeah mine was actually a protege5 badge i got off djdub i jist cut off the 5 lol