new engine bay pics

[Michael Cummings]

These are my new pics i just snapped.  Major cosmetic improvements were the intake manifold powder coating and powersteering pump/bracket painting, those two things made a huge difference, i also painted up a few other small things, but you dont really notice.
Some chrome heat shields and i'll be on my way.

http://engine.fotopic.net/c442516.html

[Andrew Scott]

I'm not sure if you really want to be advertising the use of ractive strut braces.

[daniel_doluntap]

That looks great mike

Where did you get that oil cap it looks awsome, i wanna pick one up.

[Michael Cummings]

40 bucks for a big piece of shiny metal to make that area of the engine bay look good .....sounds good to me  


The oil cap is an APC cap I got from lordco

[Goran Jandric]

Looking good Mike...nice and shiny  :thumbs:

[Kevin Standeven]

The strut bar looks nice, I think Andrew's just referring to the Ractive sticker as it's a bit of a lame/ricy brand. Example products include huge aluminum wings, LED muffler tips, and non-functional chromed antennas :?

But back on topic, that's one hot engine bay. You could eat off of that valve cover.

[Michael Cummings]

Hahha, yea i'm not really a huge supporter of them, but the paint in the engine bay isn't that nice, kinda faded a bit for some reason, so i thought the sticker made it look nicer.  I have a pic of what the engine bay looked like last year, i wanna post it, i wonder if anyone can notice a difference.

[Michael Cummings]

http://engine.fotopic.net/c443827.html


This is what my engine bay looked like about a year ago.
And these pics were after I even did some work, it use to be worse.

[Cole MacDonald]

If thats the upper IC piping I think it is it was on my car for about 24 hours once! Bay looks great too by the way.

[Michael Cummings]

this uicp is like the bc dsm town bicycle, i think girvin was the original owner, and i cant fully remember who i bought it from, might have been demick? someone else on this board i know that much, its a really nice piece though...from l&r

[Ritchie Hui]

very clean ride man

[Andrew Scott]

I'm refering to the fact that Ractive makes shit strut bars I think the stickers and everything look great under the hood, nice job Mike. One good thing about those strut braces is that they're cheap to replace when they bend, unlike greddy bars.

[Michael Cummings]

i bought it for looks cause it was only 40 bucks......but i've had it for a year and has been fine, never had a problem.  So you cant really go wrong with that.

[Andrew Scott]

No doubt. I've only heard that the brackets start to bend under seriously crazy driving anyway, so It's probably doing you some good anyway.