well, i decided to get off my butt today and tinker with my monte today. first i stold the red bowtie center caps off of my dads 96 Z34 SS and put them on my wheels. i figure im gonna paint mine red soon, caus his are kinda beat up.
my dad also told me i could use his " cozmic charlie - keep on truckin'..." floormats that hees had since 1967, but they needed a major cleaning.

before --



and after, taken inside the monte -





they fit pretty good, too...

the biggist thing i did was to paint the details on the intake manifold for my 3.1 with my red touch up pen. i also sanded & cleaned the manifolds surface. see the differance for yourself:





looks good, huh. i definitly need to touch it up a lil, but better than it was.

 

wheres pics of the wheels? haha

Looking nice, always good to get some minor work done on the car!

 

here you go, mike.





like i said, his are kinda faded and beat up, so im gonna paint mine. well see how that turns out.

im also gonna paint the drum brake housings on the rear wheels, cause thay look like crap.

 

I can see that :P lol

The wheels look good. that touch of red is a really good one.

 

Very nice!

 

I like that man. I might just paint my intake also. That, or polish the crap out of it. THEN paint it.

 

thanks. what i thought would look cooler would be to polish the " fins " and letering up real good, and remove and paint the whole manifold red, orange, or black, like a set to old school valve covers. id mask the tops of the fins & lettering, so everything would be colord except for the tops of the fins.

the way i did mine was a 20 minute job, i used fine grit sandpaper over the whole manifold to clean off the pitting & dirt, and then wiped it down with a rag soaked with brake parts cleaner. then i used a Q tip, soaked with brakecleen to go over the fins & lettering, to get any other dirt off. then i just used my dupont touch up pen, that i got in wally world to use on some scrapes and dings. i gotta go back over it & tidy it up a lil bit, but it really makes it "pop"

i might also might paint the exaust manifold heat sheild with a high- temp black paint, so it does not rust out.

 

on my 95 and 03 i ended up taking the heat sheilds off prob not the best idea but i havent had any issues and i painted the exhaust manifolds gloss black it really set the engine off..on my 95 ii upgrated to a newer 3100 like a 2000 upper and lower intake manifolds... painted everything gloss black..and painted the 3100 red..with red spark plug wires it looks sharp

 

 

hey, everyone! i just took some pics of my new home- made 3rd brakelight cover, it came out ok, for 15 minutes of work and 2 coats of black paint. i put it on the package tray light, i dont have a spoiler, so i make the lightcover out of cardbord cut to fit. its supposed to look like a bowtie....






i also figured i would post the before and after pics of the dent on my front fender, which we pounded out when i put my new battery in.

thats my dad in the pics, as you can see we used the most 'pufisticated' tools at our disposal: a BFH and a peice of firewood, lol.

before


before


during ( note the log, lol)


and after


it came out pretty good, not great but alot better than it was, i HATED that dent, lol.