It would not be proper for me to reassemble my engine without making it look a little better, so I bought some engine enamel and started painting my manifold parts.




I first wiped off the manifolds with a paper towel soaked in Lacquer thinner, then taped off the bolts and vacuum nipples, and began spraying. I used $4 a can Dupli Color engine enamel from Auto Zone. After spraying the parts, I took another paper towel soaked in thinner and wiped off the gasket surfaces and top of the dynamic chamber, leaving a reverse lettering effect. I'll paint the irons this same color, along with the lower manifold and throttle body. Then I will paint my rotor housings with an aluminum color.

Off topic, but here is the result of about 8 hours of five lug swapping this weekend:



Three weeks till I start it up and hear that rotary rumble again . . .

 

Damn those manifolds look nice, all shiny and stuff.

You just made me spend more money on my car

 

damn, I did the that, exept I chose the bark blue color they had.

NIce work on the 5lug swap.

 

Nice work! I love the threads you have about the progress. It's cool to see how well it's coming along.

I like what you did with the UIM. Most guys would probably paint it something bright or shiny! I was thinking of painting mine black or dark gunmetal over the winter..

 

yes...gunmetal when done right looks good

 

DAMN, that looks nice. I think I'll do that to mine when I pull the engine out for a rebuild/port-job. I'm gonna repaint my car a nice dark blue color, think I'll see if I can do the engine in the same kind of color.

 

man now i have to paint mine... i am thinking blue... looks sweet btw



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I have an intake set out being power coated in gloss silver (chrome like). I hope they look nice.

 

Wow, looks great! Did you use sand paper after you painted on the high spots to get the raised effect?

 

He said he used thinner and cloth.

 

He said that he used thinner, I used that in comination with some 600 grit sandpaper, just to fresh up the metal a little bit.

 

Looking good bud, can't wait to see the finished product in 3 weeks .

- Dana

 

88IntegraLS, you found that you didn't need to sand blast them I guess? Even though my Manifolds were fairly clean, I was unable to get In those hard to reach crevices. So, not only did I sandblast the Manifolds, I did the whole Drivetrain! This was accented with Flat Aluminum on Gloss Black with a shot of Clear coat. Turned out sexy.

Yours look slick.

 

Thanks everyone! I wanted something subtle so I decided against doing my engine plates in yellow to match the car. The reverse lettering idea came to me a few minutes before I started spraying after I got through wiping off the parts.

I didn't get the parts 100% sterile because of the texture of the casting but the paint is very very sticky (I touched some of it on accident while wiping off a manifold face) and I doubt I will have trouble with it coming off, unless I use a pressure washer on it, which I don't plan on doing.

I might go over the top of the dynamic chamber with some 600 grit . . that would look sweet. It looks bare and a little scuffed up there now. The black engine in the yellow bay should look different than a normal FC.

 

The 600 grit went perfect, shinned the top up real nice.

 

Good idea going with black on a yellow engine bay, it makes a good contrast. Looks mean too.

Get that baby going man.

 

yea, yours is very shiny. I like. Black goes with everything anyway.

 

Endplates, front cover, lower & upper intake manifolds and dynamic chamber:



Rotor housings:

 

As always, looks good!

 

you should've tried to paint the "mazda" on the rotor housings black...that would've looked really clean. but very nice! good work!