About a month ago I bought the AMS FMIC. We all know it has a very awesome logo on the front that just in itself makes the car look 10 times faster. Well, driving around and stuff will eventually make the logo fade, chip, etc. I've been reading around and other people have noticed this too. AMS will let you ship the intercooler back and they will paint it for you, but I can't go a week without a car (yeah I only have one car to get to work and stuff) so today I took the liberty of repainting it. I used low gloss engine enamel with ceramic. Used that blue 3M tape to tape everything up and stuff. Took about 30 minutes just to tape it. But in the end it worked out good, I think anyways. Let me know what you think.

 

looks good, nice work

 

does look pretty good, ive noticed mine starting to fade a little too, but not noticeable from far away...may have to attempt this in the future

 

Do you get the stenzel with the intercooler?

 

yea how did you do the stencil so well?

 

nice!

 

assuming the first logo wasn't totally gone he would've taped out the whole thing and cut out the logo from the existing paint. Thats what i wouldve done assuming you can see through the tape enough... regardless looks good man!

 

no, i didnt get a stencil. AMS wont give them out due to copyright reasons is what i think Santiago@AMS said. but yeah i justed used the 2 inch wide blue 3M tape and the old logo wasn't TOO faded away and i stenciled it out...just took my sweet *** time (about 30 min to stencil it) used a razor blade to trim all the smaller pieces then just took that paint from advance auto parts thats in the picture (the high temp engine block paint in a low gloss black). its really easy you just gotta TAKE YOUR TIME. not to mention i did 5 coats and it was like 90-95 degrees out so it could dry faster

 

oh and no you couldn't see through the tape, you had to line everything up with the black from the original logo

 

trooper, you should've gotten some beige mask and be able to see through to razor stencil. regardless it came out great and i can tell you're happy with the final result!

 

a company was selling exact size replica stencils from ams a while back i will see if i can dig them up they where out of china but the stencils seemed to be legit

 

Why would you wan't to buy that?

 

looks really good

 

fake logos on knock off intercoolers

 

here i was about to say that. Ebay knock off anybody