paint drive train...

Valve cover is a nice dress up! The casting is pretty ugly. On my old '92 I removed it and polished it (about 8 hrs work). On my current car, I decided to clean it up and paint it in place. I used a satin finish black high temp spray and it looks so good I may not ever do the polish job. Powder coating or professional painting might be dressier but this was cheap, relatively easy and looks pretty good. Way better than the stock casting!

Good luck, Chris

Thanks,

did you do anything with the eng/tranny?

tia, peter

I just keep the engine bay nice and clean, I guess the engine being painted could be a nice little customization. Would you go subtle or bold?

Chris

eeeeuuuu! no lime green for me :) i cant determine what a good color scheme would be tho... peter

I would suggest white for the engine. As far as the tranny is concerned, I would suggest you paint it, say, white. As long as you are already taking that much stuff off, you might as well give the car a brush too. White is a nice color that increases car speed and reduces time spend detailing it.

Leon

Oh boy, Leon's getting predictable ;-)

As far as 'bold' I was thinking of something like a copper color, I think that could be amazing. I don't know what color your car is but, certain body colors might look very interesting as engine and / or tranny color. I'm afraid white would quickly show gunk and defeat the purpose. I'm thinking a darker color might work better.

Keep us posted, Chris

the car is a 95 m-ed so its merlot.

why white leon? :p

Now you've done it!

Merlot, hmmm. I'd think about a bright shiny silver (aluminum) or what about subtle; semigloss black?

Chris

isnt white sorta ugly? (duck and cover :) peter

When the white cars that Leon has are so "fast", it's ok to be ugly. :-) The way I first hearededed of this, most of the white cars started out as other colors, but went so fast that the colors blow off and they are left with white. :-)

Bruce Bing '03 LS

Your car is still red, not? :)

Leon

Yes Bing is even darker red. I guess I will just be content to drive the speed limit and be slow forever. We in the Northwest do not have all the sun that you have so the photon boost is not as great. I just wave at the White Miatas as they go by. :-)

Bruce Bing '03 LS