My underhood dressup journey

**BIG GUNS** · 01-04-2009, 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by Bouvers

lol no offense to either of you but I didn't even pick up on the fact that they were two different engine bays lol ... well best of luck to both of ya's

Yeah, I was making conversation and hi jacked his thread.......lol.

**Lucky 13** · 01-07-2009, 01:31 PM

Got my lid painted as well, I don't want any carbon fiber on the car as well, and as you can kinda see in the initial post the lid was CF. So I painted it gloss black, enjoy!

PS: the guy doing my polishing and powdercoating is taking forever, but I will update when I get my stuff back, if ever

**BIG GUNS** · 01-07-2009, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Lucky 13

Got my lid painted as well, I don't want any carbon fiber on the car as well, and as you can kinda see in the initial post the lid was CF. So I painted it gloss black, enjoy!

PS: the guy doing my polishing and powdercoating is taking forever, but I will update when I get my stuff back, if ever

Great pic. I like what you are doing. Time consuming huh?

**blackbird99** · 01-07-2009, 06:46 PM

so is the touch up paint noticable!!! lol i was there

**Lucky 13** · 01-07-2009, 07:30 PM

What?!?! Fredy??

Your damn car isnt even black or a 99, what the hell is with the name?!?

**blackbird99** · 01-08-2009, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by Lucky 13

What?!?! Fredy??

Your damn car isnt even black or a 99, what the hell is with the name?!?

its a long story!!

**BluBeaSSt** · 01-09-2009, 02:54 PM

Looking good, I'm doing the same thing with a painted LS6 intake, lid,lower lid. Polished Maf housing and TB, fuel rails.

**Lucky 13** · 01-13-2009, 02:03 PM

Alright everyone, the bulk of the parts has come back from the polisher/ powder coater. Got the valve covers, coolant pipe, belt tensioner, power steering pulley (turn one), fuel rail, and strut tower brace polished. Then the brackets and stuff along with bumper support powder coated black. Check it out, he does good work!

Valve Cover

close up of strut tower brace

Fuel Rail and belt tensioner

Coolant pipe, head plate, and steering pulley

Part of the bumper support; powder coated

**Lucky 13** · 01-13-2009, 02:06 PM

He does a Ls1 package for all the stuff shown plus small misc. pieces for 450 polished and 350 powder coated (if you wanted everything powder coated). Also does wheels and whatever else you may want done -- something like 65 per wheel

If you ever want anything done, just contact me and we can set something up.

**KahanaReef** · 01-13-2009, 02:18 PM

That's all gonna look really nice!

**third_shift|studios** · 01-13-2009, 04:25 PM

wow! looking good. did you use the PC coaters that just became sponsors here?

**blackbird99** · 01-13-2009, 05:35 PM

damn ben that came out really good!!!!

**Lucky 13** · 01-13-2009, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by third_shift|studios

wow! looking good. did you use the PC coaters that just became sponsors here?

Umm, I dont know who your talking about so I guess not but I would like to know!

EDIT: I did some research, and no I had no idea of them. But, I got most of my stuff polished as you can tell and then I painted my intake rather than PC, although their PC looks really good, I may look into giving it to them for PC depending on price

**KarenCaren** · 01-13-2009, 08:31 PM

Looks cool dude. Just a little bit of cleaning I see. You got an awesome engine. nice.

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The Parts Bin

**third_shift|studios** · 01-14-2009, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by Lucky 13

Umm, I dont know who your talking about so I guess not but I would like to know!

EDIT: I did some research, and no I had no idea of them. But, I got most of my stuff polished as you can tell and then I painted my intake rather than PC, although their PC looks really good, I may look into giving it to them for PC depending on price

Cool. they just recently became a sponsor, well after you started your journy-i was just wondering.

**ntimid8r7** · 01-14-2009, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by Lucky 13

Umm, I dont know who your talking about so I guess not but I would like to know!

EDIT: I did some research, and no I had no idea of them. But, I got most of my stuff polished as you can tell and then I painted my intake rather than PC, although their PC looks really good, I may look into giving it to them for PC depending on price

PM sent!

**Johns00Z28** · 01-14-2009, 02:58 PM

Looking forward to seeing how everything looks back in your engine bay!

**0verkill** · 01-14-2009, 04:28 PM

looks good and i want to see how it looks when you are done.
by the way ntimid8r7 do you guys have a web site?

**nhra-trans-am** · 01-14-2009, 04:36 PM

Everything looks great! So the washer reservior is painted? How did you go about removing that?

**Lucky 13** · 01-14-2009, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by nhra-trans-am

Everything looks great! So the washer reservior is painted? How did you go about removing that?

Its pretty simple.... well unless the bumper gets in the way (I had mine off already) but I dont think it does. Just unbolt the bumper support and any pins that hold plastic pieces in place, and the reservior is just held on by a couple of push pins.