Just cause I'm proud of my odd colour choice (and tried finding a thread to post this in)... feel free to show off your engine's colour choice :)
mine is candy chocolate over a silver base... partially shaven (just left the mazda logo)
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gunmetal with blue letters!
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...68243043_n.jpg
nice, i like the letters sunken in like yours instead of raised like mine...
that's because i have a 99-00 :P
Wow, both very nice!
ty :)
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Originally Posted by phrenetiK
Was that rattle canned ?
If so, which one ??
Looks great BTW. A perfect color for what I want.
the texture does look odd, but the color is sick and your strut bar makes me jelly.... :P
It was suppose to be a wrinkle red, looks alotttt better from further away but close up it looks sorta weird and cracked. I found it a very hard process to do, to much looks HORRIBLE and to little dosnt wrinkle, and prepping took so long that after I did it the 2nd time even though it wasnt perfect I kept it. The strut bar is just a cheap ebay strut bar with a sticker:P I think it was honestly like $25-$40 shipped :D
ebay ftw!
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...93195785_n.jpg
high temperature black paint + green spraycan (reseda green RAL 6011), i was not sure but this resist but i did this 1 year ago and resist!
i wish a vintage valve cover but i ever seen a BP engined 323F or protege here in Italy... maybe next would be BBS gold
mines powder coated btw not rattle can.
Pagin Ham... he has my old valve cover...
Hard to tell but the VC is a flip-flop blue/green sparkle. It was very... glittery:
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...9/IMG_9533.jpg
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...9/IMG_9524.jpg
Here's mine, powdercoated black bronze illusion (changes colors under different light). I hand-painted the letters to match the car's color.
very nice all so far :)
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...03263572_n.jpg
nothing special. just regular high temp engine enamel primer and high temp grey.
VHT high temp caliper paint with Duplicolor engine enamel splattered on top
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/a...9/DSC02979.jpg
Powder coated "Lotus yellow"....to match the brake calipers.
http://www.fagerquist.com/miata/valve cover-1.jpg
^ looks good! now pull that charcoal canister and it'll look even more clean!
Thanks, I like your tuck too. I did this engine bay clean up last winter. This winter, I'm going to do a timing belt change and while it's off the road, I'm getting the intake powder coated.....what color hmmmmmmmm.Quote:
Originally Posted by jesseshoots
Ooh, that yellow makes woody. :encouragement:
Thanks, it's such a pain, but well worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by WASABI
And for color choice, if you could get it coated BRG with maybe a sparkle effect in there it would be the tits!
my vc will be white
intake mani will be white
block is black
my intake has gold wrapping on it
block should have been pink.
Duplicolor truck bed liner for the texture and vht engine anodize gold. I love it.
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/n...6995799300.jpg
Autozone green. Who wants to tuck my bay for some cash? :domo: Should be pretty easy.
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...29494241_n.jpg
^ should be pretty easy
i lol'd.
:D
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turned out good
love it!
Just finished this protege cover up tonight:
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...5/ea4732bf.jpg
My Capri cover that I bought State side. Going in once my ITB install is settled (suffering from air leaks around the various metal-metal contact areas):
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3431003_n.jpg
Will be mated with the Maruha timing cam cover for ease of access to the Toda cam gears within.
Just some Autozone green paint
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot...29494241_n.jpg
crinkle red is the sh*tQuote:
Originally Posted by greddygalant
I can post up my crinkle red if you guys want. :lol:
Do it
makes me think of superman... for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by uni
It's factory, does that count?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Platypus
How did your engine bay get so dirty being in Florida? Do you have the belly pan installed? Looks like a bomb went off in there. The VC looks good though. Got a before picture of the VC? lolQuote:
Originally Posted by ThatWhiteNA
Yes, all of my splash guards are installed. The hood has a shitty haze of white paint over black paint, if that's what you mean. The engine bay really isn't that "dirty", but the poorly exposed camera phone picture doesn't really show that. The paint in the bay is 23 year old original white and looks it's age. The VC was wrinkle black before.Quote:
Originally Posted by fitftw
Even if my car wasn't rattle canned, used daily and not a project racing car, I probably wouldn't have a super clean engine bay, because, you know, it's an engine bay. ;)
Rattlecanned red, then sanded the letters down. I love it, but once installed and driven hard, the heat caused the paint to crack, so i will be painting it again :fp:
http://www10.pic-upload.de/13.02.12/wllgrm2kf6ar.jpg
just use your imagination, Your options are whatever you want. If you are already assuming people have cut NB1 covers, then why not search for it?
I think Slammedmx is looking for ideas... I mean everyone and their brother asks "What does a white hard top look like on a red NA?", or "What color wheels look good on my blue Miata?"Quote:
Originally Posted by The Platypus
I'm sure we can help him out, and not chastise him for asking a simple question. :D Also, since the NA and NB valve covers are so similar, you might want to look at both.
-Jim
Alright, well the only person I can think of that's done something crazy with his was Kouki. I don't know if he's on here or if I should link to the other forum.
edit : after class today, I'll look for the few cuts that I'm thinking of.
Thanks seņor platyus
This is Kouki's. Pretty sure he had it sticking out of his hood for a while too.
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...32666569_o.jpg
Here are some more.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j1...twinkle072.jpg
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/...sCamera109.jpg
http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/h...k/DPP_0003.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5099/5...b1de5966_b.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i9...9/728690f1.jpg
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o.../7-1-11002.jpg
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...IMG_3253-2.jpg
Hopefully those give you some inspiration. I apologize for the earlier hostility, I'm not usually like that. :p
Nice job Platypus!!! I had seen a couple of them, but, the blood splattered one takes the cake!!!!! :lol:
Thank you.
Your welcome. And yeah I agree, that one is pretty cool.
Yeah the blood one is sick!!
So how are people getting around the CPS?
You just got to cut around it lol
I guess I meant any idea how someone with an NB is running no CPS in the stock position
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Originally Posted by WASABI
drool drool drool mmmmmmm yelllooww
My old car crinkle red
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...nginebay02.jpg
My current car, Ford purple velvet rattle can'd
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...Rika/bay03.jpg
bump..............
Fancy oil cap from Agent Orange, thanks man!! Works well with this valve cover.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/05/16/5u9ynape.jpg
Oh that is damn unique. Nice!
speed holes!
Love the speed holes- awesome idea. What did you use to space and cut the holes?
Mine is wire brushed, then Duplicolor metalcast red + clear engine enamel, wet sanded and polished.
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...1.jpg~original
http://i425.photobucket.com/albums/p...p.jpg~original
http://i.imgur.com/umgDYael.jpg
Before Installation.....
Damn, Anthony. Pretty much shuts down the thread right there.
Maybe a little too much............bling?
http://ispeakswagg.files.wordpress.c...04/bling-1.png
Not at all. I love the way it looks.
That's handy. You can start a camp fire with a valve cover that shiney.
all the valve covers I've had. in order :)
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...psa0f0cae4.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...ps221e13c6.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...pscf9f664b.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...ps30744332.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6e584261.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...se98232e0.jpeg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...psf1771fb9.jpg
http://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/...ps17351441.jpg
http://mazdaroadster.net/attachment....0&d=1401197530
Nothing special just wrinkle black with sanded raised letters. Would like to be able to polish the letters to match the strut bar but that's work for another day
http://mazdaroadster.net/attachment....9&d=1408896741
Wrinkle black with yellow paint on the indented letters for my yellow miata
Simple gold with Maruha cam gear cover.