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Old Mar 23, 2010, 02:00 PM
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hurts my eyes
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Ouch Silver, harsh...so harsh. Lol, I understand. It is alot of polish. I might tone it down with a red powder coat on the valve cover. What else hurts? I respect your opinion.
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looks really good.. i wouldnt change a thing.. im diggin the polished look
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Originally Posted by kburgess04
looks really good.. i wouldnt change a thing.. im diggin the polished look
Thanks!
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Bling blang bit**es!
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Maybe, since stuff is already polished, you should look into candy powder coats?

The first step in a candy is generally a highly reflective silver powder coat, a chrome coat OR a full polish. The candy coat is semi-transparent so the shine still reflects through, it's just basically tinted whatever color you want in candy coat.

A candy red would look pretty good, but only if you get the other piping coated to match
Old Mar 25, 2010, 04:24 PM
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how are you guys getting those wires around everything without having to extend them?
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This thread inspired me to powdercoat my valve cover ($40). Polishing seemed like too much work.

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That looks great!!!! Really clean.
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Originally Posted by Tachyon56
That looks great!!!! Really clean.
Thats because there is no wiring harness or vacuum lines installed yet.
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looks like a muscle car engine
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Looks good, pretty sleeper looking too!!

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Looks Great. How many hours did you put into it?
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Looks good, I'm sure it was worth the time and effort...
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Originally Posted by cpunlamd
Thats because there is no wiring harness or vacuum lines installed yet.
The wire tuck will have to wait until the shop is done building the motor.

Some people don't realize that there are shiny powdercoatings so I thought it was worth mentioning.


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