I decided to try something I hadn't seen before. Black and Copper paint. It came out more orange than I'd like and the pics make it look more orange and less metallic than it is in person.

The rear housing isn't painted because it's being replaced. I pushed everything together just to give myself an idea what it would look like once it was assembled.

I was planning to paint the front cover copper also. But after getting the intakes done I decided it was going to be way too much copper.

I'm not sure how much I like it yet. I like the housing and irons, but the intakes may be overkill. I'll probably leave it as is till I put the engine back in. I can always repaint the intakes later if it doesn't grow on me.

There are some spots I missed by overmasking, or misjudging how the parts would fit together. I can touch those up later.

 

I like it, looks sweet like that. mines just boring black and silver

 

Thanks, the idea started as a joke. That a bare keg painted black and copper would look like a duracell battery. I was actually gonna do boring silver and black but i went to two parts stores today and neither had silver high temp paint. Closest I could find was aluminum. BUT they did have copper high temp.

 

thats cool

 

I really like that

 

that looks ******* awsome!!

 

Aside from red and black, that has to be my second favorite combo! Nice breh..

 

Looks awesome.....

 

i like it havnt seen that color combo before!

 

i actually like it. as much of a stickler as i am to oem and originality, i think that looks great! well done!

 

dope man

 

cant see the pictures at work... subscribed to see later on

 

I appreciate the kind words

Though I may change the intakes to white with a "Rising Sun" Japanese flag painted on it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Sun_Flag

But then again I might also repaint the front cover copper after all. Once the engine is in and I paint the water pump and housing black the copper would be alot more hidden.

Hell I've got plenty of time till the engine is rebuilt.

 

My boss got some frame and suspension parts powder coated for dirt cheap. I may take the UIM and LIM to get powder coated.

 

you just spray bombed those intakes? looks pretty good

 

I like it! The copper looks good in the pictures, not too orange in my eyes.

 

if energizer had a certain color that would be sweet.. cuz then u could say it just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and.............

but yea the color is sick bro!!

 

Yeah all of it rattle can high temp paints. Primer, couple coats of color and couple coats of clear.

I'd rather have the intakes powder coated cause the paint isn't going to hold up.

 

I'm leaning towards having the intakes powdercoated white and putting a rising sun flag pattern on it.

Yes I know it's fanboi, don't care about that. But white engine parts are gonna be PITA and too high maintenance for a 3 season car...so I don't know. I'm really just wasting idle time while I educate myself and decide what to do with my rebuild.

 

I've got questions about repainting my irons and front cover. After painting my water pump and housing I'm starting to think this is gonna be WAY too much black. I was planning on doing the a/c & p/s bracket black also. But I'm already seeing that doing an aluminum or silver color would be better.

I've got some self-etching primer. Can I simply put that over the clear coat and restart with primer, color and clear? Or do I need to rough up the surface with a scrubbing pad and wire wheel?

 

I like it a lot, nice job man, I think if you don't over do it on the accessories it'll look awesome once fully assembled. BTW what color is your car?

 

I've got a red and black vert, one of them is getting the rebuilt motor the other is being sold. I haven't decided yet which it's going in.

 

i also agree in not painting the accessories , it will look too tacky then , nice colour too and im colour blind

 

Looks Badass! I love the colors. I had black and gold now its just going to be aluminum and black

 

If one color on the front cover gets to be too much, you could always use an alternate color and powdercoat your pulleys.