I was looking to add a little color into the engine compart. Painted the intake, filterbox, cam cover, and plug cover silver. Then painted the Mitsubishi purple to match the grounding kit. Sometimes I thinkit looked better in my head, but it's starting to grow on me.

 

I like it! What kind of paint did you use and how did you prep it?

 

looks pretty good, definitely a good idea. I think it might look good too if you were to get a polished manifold heatshield. Just a thought. Looks good though.

 

The paint was Rust-Oleum Bright Coat, metallic silver. It looked spray crome when it was wet and I almost died. I just cleaned the parts for prep, that was all. The purple was model paint, put on with a brush.

I plan on painting the header black, and the heat shield silver. That should look pretty solid I think.

 

okay

 

it looks like that spray painted civic down the street from me....

w/e you think but i don't like it.... just my opinion....

 

looks great!!!

 

Looks good. Get some polished inner cooler hoses dress up the heat shield and you'll be good to go.

 

Would look better with different colors...not soo flashy ones I mean....

 

The paint will peel if you paint the heat shield. I polished mine to a chrome like shine just by removing the black paint and using Mothers aluminum polish. Also, polish the upper IC pipe. That shines like a mirror.

 

What did you use to remove the paint from the exhaust manifold heat shield? Yours looks very nice!

 

Same opinion from me.

 

Mark, I used a paint stripper, thinner, wire brush, emory cloth -- whatever I had in my garage. It took awhile, but once the black paint comes off, there is bare silver metal underneath. I then used Mothers mag & aluminum polish to buff it (tried others, but this works the best). The more you polish, the more the metal smooths out and the shine deepens. I ocassionally polish it on the car when I have time. It's held up for 8 months, just occasional water spots.

Another option is chroming it. Another member that I know had it done for $40 locally and it looks sick. Mine looks flat next to it.