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Offline bobcooter

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Re: Painting my engine bay :)
« Reply #30 on: May 16, 2011, 11:40:06 am »
Duplicolor makes a low gloss engine paint that looks great. It's Low Gloss Black. I think the number is 1634. I love the way that stuff looks. Not flat but not too shiny.
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Offline GUITAR1989

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Re: Painting my engine bay :)
« Reply #31 on: May 16, 2011, 03:34:09 pm »
Yeah Im gonna be doing this one in the next week or two. I'll clean up everything under the hood. Put all those wild wires in some wire loom, paint everything thats all faded or rusted black, paint my air cleaner cover and valve covers black...Its been a while since ive done anything to my truck so im excited to make the beast a little slicker looking where it counts 8) I actually had someone asking me what engine it had in it...i could tell they wanted to see but i didnt wanna pop the hood cause its a mess under there lol....I just walked em to the back of the truck and showed em the nice clean looking chassis under the bed :D
heres how my engine bay looks right now...
« Last Edit: May 16, 2011, 03:37:49 pm by GUITAR1989 »

Offline 1980c10

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Re: Painting my engine bay :)
« Reply #32 on: May 24, 2011, 12:33:44 am »
Any progress yet? I had run my wires under the headers instead of a loom, I like the way it looks but it take a little more effort, cheaper though. I also installed my alt lower to match it with the power steering and moved all of the other engine/headlight wiring out of sight as much as I could. Also updated the brake booster and master. Most of what I did was just elbow grease, junk yard parts and not a whole lot of additional dollars. Maybe move your windshield washer tank forward to hide it a little, remove the unused a/c bracket. just throwing ideas your way, hope it helps. post some pics of your progress if you have any.