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7-17-2016
So, I didn't take pictures of the other item I was painting at the time but I did this one first. So the few pictures I have I'll put them up here.
I removed the Front Strut bar and took out all of its connections and hug it in my garage. I also applied some ' I
Well that last post didnt work right?
So, I didn't take pictures of the other item I was painting at the time but I did this one first. So the few pictures I have I'll put them up here.
I removed the Front Strut bar and took out all of its connections and hug it in my garage. I also applied some ' I <3 MY TL ' stickers in a pretty specific order, I wanted the heart to be black, but I also wanted the letters to be different from the wrinkle coat, but I wasn't going to be too upset if they didn't turn out exactly how I wanted. So what I did was I put he heart sticker right on the cleaned OEM black paint of the strutbar, then I used some VHT High Temp Primer and then put the rest of the stickers on.
I have to say I am glad they turned out as I prepped for them to be.
I ended up hanging it from my garage as I didnt really have a paint booth and didnt want to lay down this kind of piece on anything. So I taped off the screw's for the mounts and used my tape cones to fill in the holes for other things. And went to it!
A close up of how I did my sticker-ing. I used some tape to ensure that it would be in a straight line and visible from where I put it in. I did this before I pulled the strut bar out and laid down where the bottom should have been and then put my stickers on that line, after making sure I had enough primer for the hear I removed the tape, put the rest of the stickers on and then put some more primer on and then wrinkle coated it!
End result of the Strutbar:
I also got a Type-S Intake Manifold!
So I looked at cleaning it as it was a bit dirty.
Gonna get a catch can next! This guy could have used it!
Oil all over the intake :P
Scraped it for like 2 seconds
And after all the time I spent on getting the Valvecovers ready to paint I decided this would be one of those things that I didnt completely do at home, so I got them sandblasted!
Muuuucchhh easier lol!
So much of it was the same prep. This time I taped off the air channels and left it open to spray wherever.
Then I was able to put it on this box to stand and spray.
Then I was bringing it in and out carefully to bake it a bit in between coats.
This was right after the first 2 coats:
This was after I finished all of the spraying and pulled the tape off:
I pulled this mechanism off before I got it sandbasted then put it back, it was just soooo clean!
(I also pulled the intake bell end things)
I also pulled off the Throttle Body and painted that silver to match the side plenums.
Then I even panted that pipe that goes over the top and matched the white screws to the white coilpacks.
And finally after bringing it all together!
