Well, you can get valve covers painted for $45 so heat resistant paint is not that expensive.

Dude you could probably ship it to me and have me do it for cheaper! Seriously! I did mine with engine spray paint and clear coat in red not that long ago.... no chipping or anything. And hes pulling **** out his **** if he says its expensive. You can buy it at autozone. :P
Did the whole job for about $10 and a little bit of time. I have used this spray paint on multiple car engines never had a problem

yes yes very nice i would like to take that front piece myself and paint it black to give it that evo look

I'm not an expert on pain but I would say perhaps some sort of protective clear coating?
Or 3m, but that would be quite time consuming to do on the grille and would take much effort to make it look proper.

As for myself I'm waiting for someone to crash a Lancer with the black grille and then I'll just buy that from second hand parts and won't paint mine :P

I painted my engine cover and spark plugs cover with regular white plastic paint ($15 for a can). I had it on for a few months now and I have nothing pealing at all.
Ok I guess I gave it another coating (just one) with heat resistant caliper paint too.
Either way the entire thing cost me less than 40 bucks probably and just a little bit of time.

I stripped it off and sort of sanded it a bit

Bad ace my man. You sir deserve a brew :beer:


I really like the front grill painted that way. The EVO's sort of look like that but have a much wider opening that widens up at the bottom. Personally I think you got way more style than an EVO, cuz.


Let us know how the paint holds up, especially for the under hood stuff.

3M film.

Thanks alot and you too ROB !!!... i've started, done the fusebox just need to do the engine cover tonight, will post spome pics soon!! :beer:

Just make sure you wait a week or so before putting the clear coat on. Otherwise you run the risk of cracking. Hotter weather will help in cure faster, but yous guys in Canada will probably have to wait :grin:

I think it looks great! I especially like the engine cover. I don't think it will get hot enough to cause the paint to bubble or loose cohesion.

I'd paint mine but my cars black and I don't know how any other color would look.

Nice job!

As for the painting the engine, high heat spray paint is cheap! DIY!

The more I think about it, $900 to paint two items is rediculously expensive! I wouldn't get anything done there!

The guy's talking out of his A*s*S...i let him know what i think of his 900.00, i know what it was all about, the guy's a ****, he dosent want to waste his time to make 50.00$... regardless of that, it's not very proffesional to shoot numbers out like that.

Can someone tell me where i can buy a new engine cover....i kind of missed my shot :blush-anim-cl: :P :laughing: .. i can't do anything rite :(

Before I decided to do it myself, I went to a body shop and they told me it would be around 150 for what I did, so that's why I decided to do it myself. But $900...****. I spent less than $50 in all that I did

Good stuff Nixzel, i saw the work you did, it's splendid, beautiful, wish i had half your talent, i messed up my engine cover BIG time, wasent patient enough with the drying... will most likely order another one from the dealer if cnt find it online.

That "Metal Specks" Paint looks great. It's boiling point according to the MSDS sheet is around 0-318 F or 18-172 C. Quite a range.

Have you had any heat issues yet with the engine cover or fuse box paint?

The way I look at it, our engine cover is already a plastic material anyway. So is heat such a huge issue with that particular piece as compared to an actual engine casing(where obviously it would be)?

I saw this and was always going to to do it and this did it for me. So today i got the paint and painters tape and went to town. Just wonna kno what you guys think. A BIG THANKS TO Nixzel FOR THE HELP AND INFO on the paint.

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Befor it all

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Outline and sanding

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Newspaper

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First coat

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All done

Looks great!! :clap:
See your missing some of your engine! You painting that too?