Painted Bumper Support Mod

**SS#337** · 03-10-2009, 02:13 AM

Originally Posted by suede

just undo the clamp and with some twisting and pulling, it should come off... that hose goes to your AIR pump, which takes clean air and shoves it into your exhaust manifolds to dillute the exhaust gasses, most ppl will remove this system if they put Long Tube headers on, but doing so will through a Service Engine light.....

Ok, great. I was going to try and pull them apart but when it didn't budge, I had a second thought and didn't want to tear something up. So if/when I do headers is there some bypass that will keep the SE light from tripping? Thanks for that info...

**suede** · 03-10-2009, 07:32 PM

Originally Posted by SS#337

Ok, great. I was going to try and pull them apart but when it didn't budge, I had a second thought and didn't want to tear something up. So if/when I do headers is there some bypass that will keep the SE light from tripping? Thanks for that info...

nah it should come apart just fine....

but yea when you do headers, you have two options, you can get headers with emissions provisions, or you can remove the system and when you have someone tune your car, (which will be highly recommended) they can remove that system from the PCM and it will not throw a code....

**SS#337** · 03-11-2009, 12:39 PM

Originally Posted by suede

nah it should come apart just fine....

but yea when you do headers, you have two options, you can get headers with emissions provisions, or you can remove the system and when you have someone tune your car, (which will be highly recommended) they can remove that system from the PCM and it will not throw a code....

Ok, great thnks! I'll try again when I have a couple of days back to back off from work to start back painting. I did complete the bumper support and back of headlights though.

**Y2KPewterSS** · 03-11-2009, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by SS#337

Ok, great thnks! I'll try again when I have a couple of days back to back off from work to start back painting. I did complete the bumper support and back of headlights though.

Huge improvements

**panterx1** · 03-11-2009, 03:55 PM

I painted my washer resevoir. It just kinda disappears and blends in, so you don't really notice it.

Glad i did it.

**chuckie669** · 03-11-2009, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by panterx1

I painted my washer resevoir. It just kinda disappears and blends in, so you don't really notice it.

Glad i did it.

good Idea. I might hit mine with my half empty can of nite shades. That way I can still see in w a flashlightt to check from time to time.

**SS#337** · 03-12-2009, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by panterx1

I painted my washer resevoir. It just kinda disappears and blends in, so you don't really notice it.

Glad i did it.

I thought about doing that too, maybe in a red or may just go black. Any suggesstions. Does it come out pretty easy?

**panterx1** · 03-12-2009, 03:52 AM

I had the headlights, the bumper support, lid and base off to paint them already. So I just cleaned the resevoir off and sprayed it in place when I was spraying the rest of the engine bay. It was kind of an afterthought when i was spraying everything else and it is pretty much out of sight so I wasn't overly concerned with putting too much prep into it.

**SS#337** · 03-12-2009, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by panterx1

I had the headlights, the bumper support, lid and base off to paint them already. So I just cleaned the resevoir off and sprayed it in place when I was spraying the rest of the engine bay. It was kind of an afterthought when i was spraying everything else and it is pretty much out of sight so I wasn't overly concerned with putting too much prep into it.

Ok, makes sense. Thnks.

**HotLS1** · 07-30-2009, 08:50 AM

Great thread! I just painted mine and it gave me the idea to move on through to paint other parts. Thanks for the idea!

**suede** · 07-30-2009, 10:05 AM

forgot bout this thread, heres some carnage pics from when i did this, i removed the whole front bumper and all, so way more work than what truely needed to be done, but turned out great...