haha dunno how many of you guys remember but i bought the car with the engine bay painted silver . Well i finally got around to get it off thanks to the help of sterlingmaxima. I am just getting started but this is a good start with a couple hours of work. We had to use multiple toothbrushes, sand paper and of course the main ingredient air craft stripper to get rid of this ugly silver spray paint. Well anyway heres the before and after pictures. If you guys know anything else that will help me remove some more engine enamel from the car feel free to give advice because im just getting started i swear this car will be back to normal soon enough.


Before
http://photobucket.com/albums/v374/D...t=DCP_0882.jpg

After
http://photobucket.com/albums/v374/D...t=DCP_1197.jpg

yea, we just got started I think we made good progress. It really makes us want to go kill the guy who ddi this to a max ahhhhhhhhh teh frustration but we are getting there.

i can't believe it was spray painted??

thank you for fixing that; it was hideous

lol yep believe me if i saw the guy who did i would literally kick the **** out of him

Oh my lord. That was hilarious. I was looking at that while talking to my friend on the phone and the phone totally fell down and broke.

But its worth it.

All kidding aside you can work wonders by covering the tubing with some of that colored stuff they sell in stores. What I suspect happened is that someone did a motor swap with a junkyard motor. They just sprayed the top so they could tell the next schmuck that it has a new motor.

Just a theory. Try the decorative hose cover things. A lot of posts have pictures of them

hahaa, a chrome engine!!! Thanks to spray paint!!!!

seriosuly i really hate the people that made engine enamel... Nah mean though this guy musta thought people might actually think that he has a chrom engine BLING BLING.

who and why would someone do that to a VQ?

deff. an improve! Haha spray paint

you just took away 50 horsepowers man, hehehe

...just wow.

Good thing you got rid of the paint.

why in hell would u want to spray paint your engine? i will never understand some people,never.

LOL man...
it was spacecar silver

seriously this guy had to have used at least ten cans of spray paint.

i was thinking of doin that to my wheels....spray paint *****es

Did you buy this max from the "Tin Man"?? Talk about geheto. Thank god you got rid of it.

thats so stupid spray painting ur engine. whoever spray painted it was an idiot.

tell us about it!!!

u guys are complaining the way it looked i was complaining because i actually had to remove it .

ha, I painted mine but it doesnt look ANYTHING like that one does. Good luck getting it cleaned up.

its like 80 % gone ; ) the other 20 % will be gone for sure by tonight

hows your back?

My LORD, who would do such a thing. EEK!

I would have laughed in the guys face upon looking at that car for a possible purchase.
Then walked away without saying another word.

He must have the I D 10 T virus.







IDIOT

You can even see that black spray paint was used also. Is the battery painted black too? Looks like the air intake including the MAF was painted over, theres no pink sticker visible on the MAF.

All I can say is WTF? Glad you got rid of it cause it looked like ****!

hhhm spray paint huh? thanks for the idea bro im about to do it right now!


lol wow thats a big difference. looks like it took some work. so you can tell ppl, yea my cars modded, i restored the engine bay

Looks like you guys are doing a good job of keeping the bay clean while working - I don't see much dust/flakes/crap from all the scrubbin.

well DC, you and sterling did a hell of a job getting the majority of the paint off .. huge props!!

thank you sir. It was well worth the couple hours of scrubbing. Now i cant get laughed at anymore... I was ashamed to bring my car to a mechanic to get the oil leak fixed but now i am not :P

hahahah yea team work but I suggested the aircraft striper being that I dealt with the prod before great stuff heheheehhe.

were gonna be doin the led mod soon too hahhahahahahhah should be fun.

great to see engine inside not tin man inside

its like a brand new car to me now . Like ive said im not ashamed to open the hood anymore

he wanted it to BLING BLING

come on guys, that engine was dipped in platnium........

glad to see im not the laughing stock of the org anymore

I agree i used to work in a Auto Parts store we ordered rebuilt tranny and it was also painted like that so i guess its a rebuilt engine from the junk yard

Hey DcMaN, what is up with the jumper wires on the circuit card and the ps2. Did you put one in your car. Just wondering.