Ok (flame suit on)

Let me have it.

The pics attached are my homage to the GT in my motor build.

Let me have your honest opinions - even though they don't matter - I'm still puttin' em on





Herb

 

They look great! Do you have other components that are the same color?

 

I like them. It's too bad our motors are installed halfway under the cowl and buried under a bird's nest of hoses and lines.

 

Thanks!

Not yet, but I'm still thinking.

I may do the block in the same blue and I am sota thinking about the top of the wire loom covers that parallel the fuel rails.

Herb

 

Looks great Herb! How about doing the S/C?
Robert

 

please don't use anything except BLACK wireloom! anything else looks like *****.

Are Those plastic covers? If so how did you get the "metal color" stripes

 

I'm not talking about the actaul wire looms, but the plastic pieces that sit atop the valve cover (attached to two studs per side) that contain the taped looms for coil packs and injectors. The covers on these have a 'ribbed' look much like the center of the stock valve covers. They look sorta like big extruded aluminum fuel rails.

They are the stock plastic valve covers - all illusion and magic!

There is a base coat of a texture metal finish (to give the cast aluminum look) followed by a mostly flat (eggshell I guess - flatter than satin) color coat.

The 'ribs' are actually painted on with a metallic paint (can - not areosol) after very careful masking. This paint looks like the old 'chrome' spray paint - very prismatic and needs stirring constantly.

The overall color/texture effect is actually quite similar to the coating on the real GT covers and as a bonus, an aluminum color will show through if it gets scratched!

Herb

 

Looks Sweet

 

Man those look great! I just realized we're neighbors...how much to do my 02 L's??

 

Nice Herb ..hey I need a pit crew tonight at SAR...you in ?

 

That looks AWESOME........PLEASE post pictures of them on your engine.

 

They look great thought they were aluminum very tricky

 

Thanks for the compliments guys!

SAJEFFC - installed price is a whole bunch There not that hard to do - I can help you with it, if your interested. Really just some degreaser, sandpaper, masking tape and 4 different cans of paint. I can give you a tutorial.

RED 92 - lemme see if I've got something going on already - What time you heading out there?

mikeyss - I will definately post pics of the finished product (and several leading up to it. You've got to be patient though - My heads won't be in my hands until sometime in early May. I'm going to do some engine compartemnt detailing in the meantime.

Herb

 

what kind of paint did you use? do you need special "plastic" paint to get it to stick to the stock valve covers?

 

"I likem" but as BMWBig6 has stated there're tough to see. That's one of the reason's I didn't spend the $430 for polished aluminum covers when I did my engine. That kind of $ would be better spent elsewhere in my case!