Remember that Swirled Engine pic?

[Redcar GUY]

Well today I was done with then engine compartment, The story on that pic with everything all taped off was….



I was taking everything off the wheel wells and then clear coated the red, It wasn’t to much fun after I started but it was to late then ;) I was a few coats with wet sanding in between. It was no where as easy as I thought it was going to be. So here are 2 pics of it finished, it is 11:34 pm Friday night, Show at 9 am :)



http://www.autopia.org/gallery/data/500/10462004_lt12.jpg



http://www.autopia.org/gallery/data/500/10462004lt1.jpg

[MTomlinson07]

Wow! Engine compartment looks great, wanna do mine?

[travisdecpn]

That is sweeeeeet. Awesome job.

[LightngSVT]

Excellent work!!!!

[topnotchtouch]

Redcar GUY,



Thinking about doing the same thing with my Mustang. Ford doesn`t clear coat the paint in the engine bay in the Mustang on most colors, my Laser Red included. :nixweiss



Yours looks awesome, great job :xyxthumbs

[stilez]

You clearcoated everything! How did you go about such a thing?

[Redcar GUY]

Originally posted by GSRstilez

You clearcoated everything! How did you go about such a thing?



I Didn’t clear everything…. Just the red wheel wells and some of the fire wall and some in front of the Radiator on the shroud. Start by taking off everything! Light wet sand then start with spraying the clear. I got some stuff from a painter friend of mine and used a sprayer with my Air compressor. It took wayyyyyy more time just to dissemble and reassemble everything than it did just to do the clearing of the red.



:wavey





PS 8:20 am.. Off to the show :)

[tkajeff]

WOW :bow

[andriver]

Nice job.

[MattZ28]

Wow that`s one of the nicest LT1 engine bays I`ve ever seen! ::shocked

[Redcar GUY]

I suppose that less is more, I could have a bunch of Crap cluttering up the Compartment... I think that looks bad.



But What do I know, I just got beat at a car show by a bunch of rice...



:yawn: BLA

[imported_Aurora40]

well, but I bet they didn`t beat you when you turned out onto the street on the way home! :D

[luke667]

oooh ooh, i`ll be the first one to show off my autopian eye for detail :D



on the right hand side of the second photo there suddenly seems to appear a stainless/chrome plaque with what i can see says Shane..looks like a chevy logo?

[Redcar GUY]

Originally posted by luke667

oooh ooh, i`ll be the first one to show off my autopian eye for detail :D



on the right hand side of the second photo there suddenly seems to appear a stainless/chrome plaque with what i can see says Shane..looks like a chevy logo?





Ya it is for my friend Shane that got killed in 2002, it use to be his car. I had a post about it a few years ago....

My dad and I made it:)

[luke667]

oh, sorry to hear about that. looks good tho