How much is a spare engine cover,,,, how hard it is to spray paint it yourself... I would think it is about the same difficulty as making a RX-8 model right?

 

You forgot to do black...

 

I got the FUSION krylon paint in red and will be playing with it this weekend

 

That looks pretty durn good. Now all you need is some white, and we'll call you patriotic! :D Seriously, did you actually paint your battery cover, or just photoshop it?

 

Omicron,

I've already done the patriotic thing ...




But seriously... The two pictured here are actually painted. I couldn't decide which color to go with so I painted one cover of each. I think the red is just too dark. The paint is an engine paint that has an annodized effect in it. I think that's making the red darker and that's the only red that's available. So I'm doing blue all around. Except the air box. That should be chrome polished aluminum in a few days!

 

Enjoy! intake cover not painted bec. i will be getting either the RE or K&N intake.

 

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Here is a close up of my oil cap.... Pictures of Rotary Extreme's body kit is soon to come!

 

middle cover to the PS2..

 

close up

 

Looks great KC. I like the rear cover as well. At first I thought the color was way off. But then I realized i was comparing to the child seat. Looks good.

 

Yea, the car seat is as close as i can get to the 8's interior.

 

No, no, no. Not complaining. Just through me off at first. I like the fact that it matches as well!

 

Very Nice KC......... I love the two-tone engine cover! But I think the black needs to be painted, like the color of your car! I think that would so nice....just a thought!

 

very nice
like the back seat piece

what kind of paint did you use

 

Nice job.

 

The same person who is painting my body kit, painted the pieces. He charged me $50 bucks! If any of you are in the area, let me know and i'll get you hooked up! :D

 

KC_RX-8,

What you doing with the air box?

 

installing either a RE or K&N intake

 

Here I wanted something with not as much color under the hood. I used Dupli-colors Metalcast. Its a 2 part anodized system. High heat, high gloss and very durable. It uses a silver base coat and a color topcoat. The most time consuming part was the masking. I wanted the vents to stay black to tie in to the vents on the side of the car. I also wanted to just do the v shape to stand out and blend more with the looks of the car. Later I will do the strut bar to blend in. Still not to much color under the hood.

The process was simple, just spray light coats. The red top coat took 4 coats to look red and not a orange tint. Take the piece outside in the sun to see the auctual color. It appears different under house lights.

They have it in blue, red, and another color just don't remember. Oh the paints are metalic.

Hope you guys and gals like.:D

 

Sorry I don't have a better camera. The spots are dust on film not on the engine cover.

 

Very nice. Way to go!

 

I heart it!!