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    basicly gettin my 16 valve 4age rebuilt.
    I'm cleaning parts etc and i thought what if?
    polish bits and paint things.
    does anyone have pictures of sweet bays?

    I'm not looking to copy, just ideas of what looks good painted or polished :2thumbs:
    i've already polished back up my cam gears lol and I have
    stripped rocker covers due to paint flaking of anyways and not sure wether to repaint or polish things up lol
    please help me.

    I know people say leave things and stuff I'm not looking for you ricer coments etc etc just opinions on the little touch ups taht look good :teehee:

    Thanks guys

    found this one not to bad shiny lol
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    Polished/smoothed stuff to me looks like you were wasting attention you could have spent on the rest of the motor; however, fresh or newly cad plated bolts bring things up a treat, stripped clearcoat and clean and untarnished raw alloy bits look fresh and factory, fresh hoses and rubbers really make a difference, and freshly painted rocker covers, valley covers, cam covers do bring up the look of an engine bay.
    My philosophy is clean, neat and factory style rather than mega obvious wank.
    Get the head dipped when its apart, will come out fresh looking. New freeze plugs everywhere. Paint the block with a good coat of black or maybe silver..

    End result will be class, not arse.

    Thats my two cents, and the way I'm going with the 31. Put it this way...On a TRD motor you'd see clean, raw alloy, not polished stuff, you might see anodised details and machined bits, but not purple painted EVERYTHING etc.

    Oh, polish looks like arse very very quickly too in an engine bay environment, lots and lots of nasty chemicals which speed the oxidisation process, as well as staining/yellowing clearcoat if you try and protect it that way.

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    painted cam covers and raw alloy does it for me.

    anything more is just too much work
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wide s13 @ Aug 23 2008, 09:41 PM) </div>that thing is awesome.

    where'd you get the pic? just do it the same as that, maybe a tiny bit less bling.
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    Id say do it like that. Just don't chrome your extractors like that guy has.

    Black with highlights of chrome always looks nice, but you just have to make sure that you 'hide' the wiring, other wise it can look really shit.

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    cut and polish the fuck out of the engine bay when the motors out.. make sure to get into all the hard to reach places and give them a good going over, check out my 'members ride' page of the b 4 and after I did with the cut n polish on the bay, came up sweet as

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    well got board today so I cleaned up a set of cam covers and painted them hammer tone copper lol
    ill put pickys up tomorrow after it finishes drying. itll prolly look like arse but i have a spare set anywayz lol.
    nothing paint stripper won't fix bahahaha
    as for the rest of head just washed it came up like new due to being rebuilt not long ago.
    so might put intake manifold on so i can decide what to do with that
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    here is a before and after of my bay

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    i polished one of my cam covers came up sex, got lazy so got one matt black and one shiney bit of both is good

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    ^^ That mhynt muncher.. Degreaser or what??

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