Hey guys i just finished painting my engine bay, halfway through putting all the stuff back in figured id post some pics. Its a red with a gold pearl you cant really notice it in the pic but it looks great in the light. Whole car is going to be that colour.

 

looks great! almost new!

 

Yeah its probably better then new. Just wish i could afford alot of new parts and hardware. then it would be better.

 

That's awesome...I'm in the process of getting my engine bay painted right now, but anyways good job.

 

Are you doing any of the prep work, if you are my advice is to just remove everything i tried not too and it made it so much harder to prep and the painter made me pull the stuff out in the end anyway. Probably the best thing to prep it with is grey scotchbrite and jif, and other bits use wet 800 wet and dry

 

nice.. love seeing the brake booster on the wrong side.. doesnt look half bad

 

looks awsome wish mine came out like that

 

very nice what kind of paint did you use or sealer, also is that primer or white...

 

Very nice.

 

good job

 

super great job! thumbs up to you!! what type of paint did you use? did you do a base coat clear coat?

 

Looks nice, hard to see, but doesn tlook liek u have any peel, impressed!

 

Im think about stripping out my engine bay and painting it, but uh, how did you safely remove all the platic clips and what not? I pulled everything out of the bay in my parts car and had to break alot of little clips and what not.

PS, i'm doing 5A Sapphire Blue with a peral accent ^_^ i'm odnr with red FCs for now

 

Blue FC's FTW! Make sure to posts pics of it, I can't get enough of them in blue.

 

Holy ****, i forgot how much stuf is in a near stock engine bay.
nice work though, looks very nice
one of the best things i did was completly strip and paint my engine bay like you, i went black bay on a red car although

 

Hey man your wiper motor is on the wrong side.

 

Pics!

Ok, now that I've posted that 3 times in different threads, I think it's safe to assume they're coming after the paint.

 

Its not white primer i had to put a white basecoat down, the colour is a red tinter with a gold pearl, without the white the paint was sort of seethrough the white just gives it a fuller colour, there is

1 coat primer
1 coat white
3 coats colour
2 coats clear

And yea there is a heap of **** in there i didnt pull the engine so i dunno whats needed and whats not, the mechanic is pulling out all the wiring for the stock computer and alot of the emissons stuff when it goes back in, im just leaving the basic stuff like charchol canisters incase the cops have a look. And as for the plastic clips a few broke but you can get on the back of alot with pliers, im just going to go to the wreckers and look at some other mazdas for replacements im assuming the clips will be pretty generic

 

Nice lookin bay there.....

You betcha....thats where a parts car really becomes priceless though

 

One of those would be great right now, pretty hard to come buy over here though lol

 

Yeah i dont even have the paint yet, i have to get the car together and the other one sold first . . . maybe by march :\

 

HAVE YOU GOT PICTURES?? ....... I was thinking of doing the same ..... gloss black bay in a red vert that getting painted this winter .