Anybody know where to find some good 3.5 liter engine covers in different colors and designs?

 

Make/paint your own. Plenty of members have done it.

 

Ive seen them in CF for the 350z but not many for the maximum. Some people have actually painted their own with great results.

 

Mine sits in a lonely storage shed.

 

i'm not very artistically inclined, or i would paint my own.. i know a 6th gen owner who got his painted and it looks really nice.. i was looking to get maybe a red or silver one.. i remember one of the websites that closed down had it.. redlinemax or custommaxima.. one of those...

 

Take it to a body shop, its worth it IMO. I had mine done, Gloss Black with Red "VQ 3.5".

 

how much did u pay 4 it?

 

well you didnt look hard enough because ionic dynamics makes it duhh haha nah painting is the way to go

 

Here is mine (black with red letters, shaved NISSAN logo):

 

http://www.ionicdynamics.com/3-5CFENGINECOVER.html

 

for $235??!! i'll be gotdamned...

 

that looks nice.. how did that kinetix IM work out for you in terms of horsepower gains?

 

Here's my red one, BTW the stock '03 Maxima engine covers are silver

 

if you didnt notice it is real carbon fiber what u expect
that looks hot, and not because its red, its hot

 

it's gray.. i was talking about one with a tad more shine to it

 

Ship it to me. I'll make it shine...for a small fee of course..

 

heh. nice deus--keeping that black on red real tight.

 

I paid around 50 bucks or so extra while my car was in the shop. I'll take some pics for you soon. It's sitting in my room for the winter, but still dirty so I'll clean it up.

 

Here's the one I created for myself, but now soonerfan has it. I'm probably gonna make another one with another design.

 

Is that the engine cover thats on soonerfans car now?

 

I haven't looked at his pictures lately, but it should be. I sold it to him when I was parting out my car to sell, but I think I'm going to hang on to it so i'll just make another one.

 

did you sell your car? that was a nice car.

 

I have a 3.5 cover for sale, if anyone wants it PM me with an offer for $$ or trade for stuff, mine if from a 6th gen 07 maxima

 

Thank you. No I have not sold it. I demodded it and was trying to sell it, but have since decided against it. I'm going to keep it and go a focused performance route. I have a couple mods still but I have to start again. Sounds stupid but it's fun all over again the second time around.

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

No Altimas allowed.

 

Hey SECONDTONONE..i checked your cardomain page for it. But i didn't see any info about your car seats...Who'd you get them from?? P.s...sorry for the short hijack wyche89..

 

thats a load of crap!!!

 

Sorry, rules are rules.

 

your just mad it would look better in my car...

 

you have any pics of how the gloss black turned out?

 

Here's what I did to mine

 

I was planning on doing custom painting starting at $35 for something simple...so if anyone is still interested send a PM.

Stock....



Painted...



Here's how mine looks currently (re-done)...





Before the re-paint I had it painted the same way with the VQ35 lettering in just silver with metallic black gloss from duplicolor.

 

Jess, that looks like a sweet paint job on there. Nice!

Bluesbrekr, that looks awesome. Creative touch, do you have any more pictures?

 

That's the only pic. I'll need to take a few more.

 

Ok, I've got a question. What exactly is the purpose of an engine cover? Is it just to improve the aesthetics of the engine when you pop the hood?

 

Aesthetics. Sure isn't for cooling purposes!

 

To remind you how much displacement and how many cylinders you have.

 

Here is a bad picture of mine. I just wiped it down, needs more love.

Jess, I'm sure you would get people interested in engine covers getting painted. Hell, I might send mine down to get redone.

 

Sure do let me know. It's basically $30 for labor and $5 for paint. Color matched and more detail is different.