Custom engine covers!

[Flip97GTP]

Please post custom engine covers here, also write-ups on how it was done?

Thanks
Flip

[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

[TLSheff]

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.

[Doug 97 gtp]

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

[TLSheff]

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

[Flip97GTP]

Doug that's looking very sweet! Nice work! Its nice to show off the s/c it looks like it took some time to get it looking like that.

I want to customize my engine cover. I have seen some nice pics of some in forums. I seen one that was a dale earnhart edition and it was decked out in budweiser logos and the cover was custom painted and pin striped. It was all glossy it was sweet. Iwant to do something like that with my cover.

Looking for some ideas and maybe write-ups

[Doug 97 gtp]

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

[Jake U]

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

[h0wl0ngcanitbe]

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!

[Flip97GTP]

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

Looking very sweet Jake! That's the same color I want to do to mine! I just haven't figured out how I want to do it yet lol!




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[MissLexx]

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

[Doug 97 gtp]

looks good what did you paint it with ?

[Jake U]

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

[Jake U]

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

[Seven71ne]

havent done much my self, cover was painted before i got ahold of the car.

Some things i plan to do:
paint it red in the slashes and lettings on cover
Red spark plug wires
red bars going across bay

let me know what you think

Jake u, how did you go about painting your rails blue? What are they exactly called, im thinking about buying an extra two at a junk yard and painting them

[Jake U]

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.

[GPTAFan]

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

I like. You should do ur engine cover to match or somethingg.

[Doug 97 gtp]

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

[kingspadeshan]

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

That looks pretty sweet but I don't have the time for all that so I'd be fine with just painting the cover for now.