Cleaning up the engine bay

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Cleaning up the engine bay

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When you have to pull the engine for any reason, spend some time cleaning up the engine bay. You can get a fairly close match to a lot of colors with rattle can paint, or you can have a can of paint mixed up to exactly match. Once you do, clean and remove a lot of the stuff and paint the inner fenders and firewall. Also paint the Block - easy to do with the engine out of the car. When you get it all back together, your car will look 1000% better!!
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As per usual Lord Raper rules over the roadster kingdom!!!
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And his Raper sharp wit...

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Just FYI i found that krylon baby blue enamel and Plastikote baby blue enamel exact matches of the Sora blue. hope this helps
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beebo wrote:Just FYI i found that krylon baby blue enamel and Plastikote baby blue enamel exact matches of the Sora blue. hope this helps
Nope, no help here, my cars are red and gold, the blue would clash terribly :lol:

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