Does anyone have any good engine dress up tips or ideas for my Ralliart? I was just working on that and would like to see what you guys recommend. My eng. is stock, no AI so far so based on this can someone help? Pictures of good looking Lancer engines would help a lot too! Thanks!

Things I got ideas for:
*Buy the red hoses at RRM
*Buy the Carbon Fiber stuff at RRM
*Paint the valve cover (BTW what kind of paint?)
*Get a CAI (duh)
*Put a super bright red neon under the hood (no kidding someone suggested it and it looked nice on that one car)

 

i just used duplicolor engine accent paint. ford red matches the RRM stuff and the strut bar pretty well. i made a howto for doing the valve cover. see if it helps.

 

Kool I was just checking unto it, thanks. Did you ever paint the Logo/MIVEC letters?



Anyone else?

 

you can powder coat pretty much anything metal......

 

Hey... that looks nice! I noticed you painted over the battery tiedown and the radiator thingies, but these (at least on my car) have a black coating (really THICK on the tiedown) did you sand it off or just primed over and then painted it?

 

i didnt get a chance to paint over the mivec logos yet. I wana find some good high temp brush paint. I'll get pics when its done.

 

The other thing you can do is get a oil/rad cap set and get some resevoir covers....thats what alot of people do.

 

If you do neons, be careful how you set it up. It could look really good or REALLY bad. To be honest, the engine bay is the only place I'd ever put neons in a car besides a really nice trunk set up.

 

I have always wondered how would a neon kit look on a Lancer... I might ask a friend of mine who has some extra tubes to test out the looks before the buy, but anyways. I just changed the color on the MIVEC logos but it's dark here so I can't get a full inspection so tomorrow I'll see wether to keep it or not. Thanks for the suggestions guys! Keep 'em coming -if there are any-

 

Hey!, I worked on the engine bit and got not much but some done. (FInally- too much school work) It's not much but its all I think I can do until I start painting parts.

Any suggestions?

 

remove the heat guard. it looks good without but remember not to touch it haha. if you dont know what im talking about,just remove that piece of metal down below your engine.

 

Bad idea. The header gets HOT, and it's very close to the plastic fans on the radiator. Without that heat sheild, you risk melting parts of your cooling fans.

 

I plan to keep the heat shield for now but my dad is looking into finding a way to prime it and chrome it with a paint that looks good and is very resistant to heat.

 

you could always chrome it with chrome.

 

A couple people on here have polished theirs and it looks great. I'd like to do this, but have yet to find the time/motivation to do it.