I was thinking of painting my engine this weekend. Can I see some pictures from those of you that have done this? I want to get some ideas. I was thinking about painting the top piece of the spark plug cover silver and the bottom piece red (the color of my car) Let me hear some suggestions

 

what color is your car? Can't give color reccomendations till I know that. I don't want to reccomend yellow if your car is green. Or blue if your car is yellow....etc.

 

Red (I said that in the first post) with Silver accents (grills, windshield wipers)

 

If you take a look in the Image gallery (on the main page) there is a few pictures of engines painted. Check out my gallery, my spark plug cover is painted red. If you are not accenting your "red" car with any other colour, then the obvious choice would be red.

 

Here's my spark plug cover part. I removed the emblem, painted it with the Duplicolor Metalcast base, then painted it with metalcast red. I was really happy with the results.

 

and how did you put the emblems back on? just glued them?

 

Yeah, I glued them on with glue. Make sure whatever you get is good for high temperature ranges.

 

Hprockets, here is a link for you. http://www.rdtiburon.com/index.php?name=PN...pic&p=5584#5584

 

In Redz writeup he says to use a ground coat and then paint. Is this the way to go? I've always thought to just use paint and then a clear coat. What's the difference? Why a ground coat?

 

The ground coat is used if your are using the Dupli-Colour Metalcast paint. It give the colour that "anodized look"