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Old 08-16-06, 04:17 PM
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What color is your engine?

Hey was wanting to see pics of engines and the paint colors yuo choose. I am thinking about going green or even purple. Just wanna see what colors took good. Thanks guys and gals.
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Black Irons with Red rotor housings looks good!
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mines black with cusco blue...looks freakin sweet!!
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Mines dark grey with Castrol GTX Black lol
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you all have pics?
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My latest rebuild will be black with yellow housings
If it sounds like an angry Wasp it must look like one too
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My 2nd gen is candy pruple, the widebody is candy teal. I could say search under my username, lol, might take a while. Here's the link to the teal, I can post a purple pic later if you want. https://www.rx7club.com/build-threads-293/unvieling-12a-bp-widebody-462184/
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stay off red paint as it will turn sort of orange after.
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Originally Posted by Onlyonthurs
Mines dark grey with Castrol GTX Black lol

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Originally Posted by nick812
you all have pics?
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tarnished alliminum and surface rusted iron. lol
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Originally Posted by wackyracer
stay off red paint as it will turn sort of orange after.
How much is a while?





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Black irons and silver housings for me:

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powder coated...


this is what we paint all our rebuilds unless the customer wants a specific scheme as above... this way, tho, keeps that fresh and new look going
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Originally Posted by Onlyonthurs
Mines dark grey with Castrol GTX Black lol







My choice black irons and silver housings
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For blue irons, semi-polished housings.

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For blue irons, semi-polished housings.

Rich
Oops...that should have said FORD blue irons...

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LMAO! was the first thing i thought of when i saw the engine pic! cool you found the vdub pic for me
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black w/ smoke chrome housings
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mine is black with uncleaned brandnew housings

lots of the black enamel got cracked off when i was putting the thing back in the car

Theres a lot of leaky sumps out there Hope mine doesn't

my engine used to be castral gtx black
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Powdercoating definitely stands up better than paint...and paint on the rotor housings is always doomed to look bad quickly. If I do anything for myself, I usually do black on the plates and nothing on the rotor housings.

This is a customer's motor, done in red and silver flake powdercoating:



Here is one in dark metallic grey and silver:



And the classic Black and natural:

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Blake glad you chimed in I know you all bust have some pics of some of the more off colors? I kinda wanna do something different But i still love the red and silver and red and black


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