Thread: Custom engine covers!

this is my custom engine cover it cost about 150$ with the vavle cover and pretty wires. all i did was polish the fuel rail and pint the block heads and supercharger black. then i painted the lim front cover and front engine mount silver... the covers are ugly and suck take it off and paint you engine.



but this is what it used to look like

Originally Posted by Doug 97 gtp

this is my custom engine cover it cost about 150$ with the vavle cover and pretty wires. all i did was polish the fuel rail and pint the block heads and supercharger black. then i painted the lim front cover and front engine mount silver... the covers are ugly and suck take it off and paint you engine.

^ You don't have a cover anymore, the dress-up doesn't count.

While I agree if you have a Supercharger you should clean up the bay and show it off, but not everyone feels this way.

I have seen stock ones painted just a little bit, fully repainted with flames, some even modded to vent off some heat and then painted. Truthfully most of the good ones are old builds and the members are long gone, you will have to use the search bar or google and find some. Basically same for a how-to as it is painting anything else that is plastic, sand, primer, paint, clear. Prep work is the main thing, and using good high temp paint is the next. If you don't have the skills to paint, just leave the cover off and look into other options for making the engine bay pretty.

I know it's not a cover I was being sarcastic
.I think a little TLC and paint you can really make these engines look good the cover just hides the supercharger which is the cool factor of these cars... But I have seen some covers painted up and they look pretty cool

Originally Posted by Doug 97 gtp

I know it's not a cover I was being sarcastic.

do you have a pic of your engine now as it sits? because depending on what you like or what you want your engine to look like will kinda help with some ideas. ive seen white cars that have the cover painted gloss white with red and black letters ive seen blue and red flames and ives seen some pretty ugly covers lol you can either make your bay look better or make it worse depending on how and what you do... the outcome all comes down to the prep work if you spend hours sanding smoothing and just fine detailing it will come out great. also if you get your cover painted by a shop or where you can get a high gloss clear over what ever colors you do it will also make it last longer and look that much better

I am still working on mine. I am waiting for an overlay kit for the writing. But I painted it all silver yesterday then went and did the blue stripes today

Originally Posted by Doug 97 gtp

this is my custom engine cover it cost about 150$ with the vavle cover and pretty wires. all i did was polish the fuel rail and pint the block heads and supercharger black. then i painted the lim front cover and front engine mount silver... the covers are ugly and suck take it off and paint you engine.



but this is what it used to look like

You sir have a beautiful engine bay, very jealous of that cleanness!

Before and after, just a little paint and time..i'm a chick, of course it's pink

looks good what did you paint it with ?

I used just some metallic shimmer plastic paint and then used some of my left over caliper paint for the blue lol.

I just got mine finished today. thanks to Welcome to Reflective Concepts for the overlay kit.

I believe the they are just called diagonal braces. And I started with just some 220 sandpaper and roughened them up and followed up with some 400. This just gave paint something to bond to. But i used some leftover brake caliper paint so it is high temp and matches everything else. Just pull them off and hang em and spray away. I did about 3 coats i believe.

If i put my engine cover on it covers up everything that looks good. The painted blower polished valve cover red wires. It looks way better open and uncovered in my opinion