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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:35 PM
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Finally finished painting my engine, battery, and brake fluid covers Daytona Blue. These pictures are in some bad light but let me know what you think!





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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:39 PM
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Allot of orange peel and you should of highlighted the V6 and 3.5 in a different color.
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:40 PM
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Here is what they should look like.

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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:41 PM
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You can probably fix them with a little sanding and some clear coat.
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:45 PM
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Wow Z-CRA-Z that looks nice! I'll get to work on the sanding haha
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:47 PM
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Wow Z-CRA-Z that looks nice! I'll get to work on the sanding haha

I can hook you up with the guy who did my covers.

He does excellent work and is in Arlington, Texas.

Let me know!!
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 02:56 PM
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+1 on sanding/buffing. My neighbor spent a lot of time sanding after he painted his CRX in his garage, black at that. He finished up with a 3M rubbing compound after clear coating it. Turned out pretty nice for a garage painted car.

http://70.184.179.35/stein/Bert-CRX.JPG
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 03:35 PM
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Here is mine:
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 04:08 PM
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Where do you guy's get the color matching paint????

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Looks good BTW
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 04:21 PM
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does anyone have pics of these painted white? ppw?

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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 04:29 PM
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Mine is PPG matched. It ran me about 80$ for enough to do the 3 covers.
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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 04:37 PM
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That's mines, excuse the bad quality....

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Old Feb 4, 2007 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by 6894kevin
Where do you guy's get the color matching paint????

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Kevin

Looks good BTW
Grab your paint code and these guys will make it in a rattle can for ya...
http://www.estoresecure.com/products...&store_id=1690
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Hey, what did you guys use to highlight the V6 and 3.5?
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ALSA paints?
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by 350forE
different but nice
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 02:58 PM
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Thanks! - www.myspace.com/350e
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Man is that the marble paint job on that Cover?!?..... Nice.......
That takes me back........

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