BTW, for those of you who have unpainted, black plastic surfaces in your engine bay (which is most of us, LOL), do yourself the solid of exploring Meguiar's Endurance Tire Gel. It's not just for tires. And it's AMAZING on things like the radiator cover, and the black area of the engine cover. Absolutely amazing.

You don't have to use much. And buff it out really well, otherwise it's tacky (because gel).

It also works really, really well on black plastic cladding, like on my wife's Honda CR-V. Puts Mother's Back-2-Black to shame. I had half a bottle of Back-2-Black sitting around, and I just threw it away.

 

You can use Armor All Tire Foam as well. Don't even need to wipe, dries instantly and leaves a nice shine.

 

Rochester: The engine is coming out nice but the "G37S" emblem needs to go. It draws the engine towards it and away from looking at everything else.

 

I appreciate that, Robert. The emblem stays right where it is for now, since it's been debadged off the trunk, and I've got it to play with. Honestly, I like it in the engine bay, and prefer it there, rather than on the engine cover, or the radiator shroud. I think it's out of the way in the corner.

Not sure what to do next. Strongly considering having the FSTB powder-coated to match the Black Nickle on the R2C intake mid-pipes.

 

Update: I installed a cusco FTSB and diy'ed a grounding wires kit. :]

 

For the engine cover? Only the finest Krylon, available at your nearest hardware store :]


It's not high temp at all, never had any problems.

 

You're right, high temp is unnecessary. Prime, paint, done.

The trick is in the details. Start by masking as good as humanly possible, but afterwards go over all the lines with some really tiny brushes, the kind you can find at a hobby store. (And in my case, some reading glasses couldn't hurt, too.) This is actually a two-fold effort: one with the new color, and another in flat black.

 

I was installing the grounding wires today and I kept looking at my hood liner and thinking about Rochester's *naked* hood.

On an impulse, I tried to pry off one of the fasteners just by squeezing a finger under the lip of the peg and pulling it out. It didn't yield, so I quit. I'm still mulling it over. I can't think of any reason *not* to, but where would I put it after I take it off? If my engine bay doesn't get hot enough to melt the myriad of rubber hoses or to damage the regular paint I put DIRECTLY on top of the engine, I doubt the heat will have detrimental effects on the hood paint. What to do, what to do.....

 

You have to be more aggressive with those clips. Use a flat-head screwdriver.

If you want to re-install the sound-deadening liner, but trash the clips during removal, no biggie... just get a handful of new ones.

 

I got the clips out and took off the liner, nothing blew up and the world continued turning. I didn't really notice any additional sound, but my exhaust might just be covering it.

 

Very likely. I still have the OEM exhaust, so all my added noise was from the new intake.

Once you go commando... LOL

 

 

Black, aluminum washer fluid cap, from ZeeToyz.com.

 

That is legit! They need to make a nice cover that covers the ugly hood latch areas

 

I'm back, the engine bay modifications continue with Brainchild's BRAND new carbon fiber engine cover. Let me know what you think.