Has anyone done this? I have blue wire loom and I was thinking it would look pretty good to have the cover match. I have seen pics on custmax.com with colored covers. They were early 5 gen Maxs. Im not dropping $285 on a carbon fiber cover. If you or anyone you know has done this, let me know. I might even start today if I get some feedback.
Help me out with these questions.
1) Did it look good?
2) Any problems along the way, or months after?
3) What kind of paint to use? Where do you get it?
4) Can you buy colored covers?
5) If I missed something you can think of, let me know.

 

1) Did it look good?
"ricey"
2) Any problems along the way, or months after?
"rice irritated me too much"
3) What kind of paint to use? Where do you get it?
" FORD RED high temp from advance auto parts"
4) Can you buy colored covers?
" donno"
5) If I missed something you can think of, let me know.

IMO, it would look ricey.

 

Are you saying you did it or are you just giving your opinion. I want to hear from people who have done it.

 

I've seen one painted blue before. IMO it looked like crap. I'm guessing it's hard to make the color look even on it, and I doubt that paint sticks well to that type of surface.

 

i painted mine just fine. the picture below is with only three coats of paint and no clearcoat. once it warms up a bit more, i will wet sand it and add one more coat along with the clearcoat. i think it looks better than the gray one and i am trying to keep everything silver and black in the engine bay.

 

teddi's one is red like is car, if I remember well!!

And it look really good!!

 

teddi's is professionally painted, so that's totally different...

redstradic's looks pretty damn good though...

 

I would say depending on what color. Black would look good because our intake manifold is black. And if you do it yourself I would use high temp paint and do a very very good pre paint prep like sanding and degreasing and such with good solvent such as denatured alcohol... but be careful with that stuff.

 

redstradic, great job! I like it.

 

I must say that looks really good. PROPS go to you.

 

thanks for the compliments.

just sand it down with 400 grit. 2 coats of primer, sand with 400 again between coats. first coat of color then sand with 600. second coat sand with 800. third coat wetsand with 800. fourth coat wet sand with 2000, final coat and then one or two coats of clearcoat.

 

what kind of paint did you use, and where can you get it? can you get other colors besides black?

 

Try those new metel cast paints from dupluycolor they look sweet.P.S they handle up to 500 degrees