I Was Thinking About Painting My Engine, Fuse Box Cover, Etc. My Car Is Silver And I Was Thinking About Going With A 2-tone Gray And Silver With Possibly A Blue Stripe Breaking Them Up. What Do You Guys Think? Also What Is The Best Thing To Use To Clean Them With Before Painting And What Kind Of Paint? Something In A Spray Can And Inexpensive Just To See How It'll Look?

 

well, you're batter is in the trunk, so i would assume you mean your fuse box cover

but you can use whatever. when i did mine on the 2.2 (i know, i know ) i used regular ole plastic spraypaint. cost like 4 dollars. cleaned it, primed it, couple light coats of paint. and you take them off the car of course.

 

Yea That's What I Meant, I Changed It To Save Myself More Ridicule. What Brand Plastic Paint.

 

kyrlon makes good plastic paint, as well as duplicolor

 

yea, i used krylon the first time, did it blue. it was way too bright. i had the blue granite color, which i loved. i went to the local auto parts store and picked up some color matched (wasn't blue granite, but you couldn't tell the difference, was actually an import blue color) and it came out awesome.

here's some of the darker




and here was the brighter:

 

wow that came out good i wat thinking about painting up my trim just because the previous owner scratched some of it but i am afraid that it would ruin my resale value and i might possible break some pieces i am also thinkin about painting my valve cover but i dont kno wether i should do it myself or go get it powder coated.........what do u think i should do?????

 

get it pc'ed

 

ight sounds good i just have to get the money together then i will post pictures of it

 

i was thinking of doing this as well except a dark red, except could not figure out how to take the trim off, how did you take it off??

 

just put a flathead screwdriver in the crack at the top and pry it out. youll have to use a good amount of force and itll sound like you're breaking it but dont worry you arent

 

so once i get it off, what do i do after that.

 

prime it and then paint it and then clearcoat it. i did mine in silver and they came out great this way

 

wow...I was thinking today about doing the same thing..paint the trim a dark red....hmm...well have to compare notes when we are done!!!

 

stock


painted

 

so im pretty new to this mod, wat did you use for the primer and clear coat and wat brand of paint you use.

Yah i have a victory red Cobalt, looking to go either dark red or same as body color

 

that's the perf red tintcoat body color

you can do this all with duplicolor paint, but i just primed mine with a cheap flat black paint. then sprayed about five to six light coats of duplicolor silver on them. then kyrlon clear. dont go with rustoleum, as it takes forever for that stuff to dry

 

And after you paint them and clear coat it, how you put them back on...
they just a snap back in kinda piece

 

yeah they're held in with clips that will jsut snap back into place. i made a how-to that shows you how to do this on g5club.net

http://www.g5club.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=584

 

wow thats pretty sweet how much time and money that take you.

 

about five hours since the paint had to dry ( did this before starting my spring nistall so i didnt sit around waiting) and about 10 bucks for all the paint

 

I know what im doing next weekend!!

 

Yea I wanna do my dash pieces also but i got an ls and would love to change out the radio and a/c controls to the silver ss ones when I do it. Anybody got a silver radio and a/c controls they want to part with?

 

hey how did you get the thing around the guage cluster off?? I really like that. Also, has anyone had any problems with the trim fitting sort of loose afterwards? do I need more metal clips or what?

 

PM Raven SS...he is looking for black!!

 

the first couple times you take them off they'll be fine going back on and staying tight. there are srews that hold that piece in