painted my engine cover this week.
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Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 329
From: Owatonna Minnesota
i just used a paint especially for plastics. about 3 coats of red and 3 coats of black. i don't think the heat will be too much of an issue.
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
Joined: Jul 2009
Posts: 1,196
From: Newberry, SC
i just used a paint especially for plastics. about 3 coats of red and 3 coats of black. i don't think the heat will be too much of an issue.
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
I used Fusion paint on mine back around Sept/Oct and have had no problems yet, that's driving 35 miles to work everyday. For the first week or two at the end of the trip I could smell warm paint but so far I've had no problems. I figured if the paint is for deck chairs that are exposed to the summer sun the heat the cover would have to put up with can't be much worse.
i just used a paint especially for plastics. about 3 coats of red and 3 coats of black. i don't think the heat will be too much of an issue.
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
and there are minor things that the camera didn't pick up but you can see when you look at it in person. there is a small paint run next to the fill cap at the bottom, and when i pulled the tape off after letting it cure over night, the tape pulled off some paint with it in a few spots which annoys the hell outta me. but other than that i'm pretty satisfied!
I had to repaint the lettering on mine. For some reason the silver paint GM used on the engine covers (the 3800 supercharged covers anyway) has the bad habit of coming off after a while.
I taped off the lettering the opposite way you did. Only painted the lettering, and masked off the rest of the cover. What a pain in the *** to get the tape all perfect!
I too had a couple of spots where the tape took pieces of the paint with it. Annoyed me too. Just fix it by putting some paint on a small brush. Or touch up paint tube to match.
Joined: Mar 2010
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Looks awesome!! I just did mine up the other day too. I also didn't use any special paint, just some metallic silver from autozone, and the can of touch up I got from expresspaint.com. What I did with my letters though was just use a brush and paint it on verrrrry carefully, I wasn't feeling up to taping it off. As you can see I had a big messup by the 5 that really makes me mad, I thought I fixed it, but it sticks out like a sore thumb. I mess up and dropped some silver paint there, and when I touch it up, it ruined my blue paint, I thought I fixed it, but when I put the clear coat on, it made it stick out.
