Started with my sun roof graphic, here are before and after shots




Then I made even more changes to the engine bay, I am not done yet, but it is getting close. here are the before, middle and after shots. Originally I went red for contrast, then it started to bother me, so I sold my red stuff and got blue stuff, just installed today, I will be getting blue caps for the engine over time, but outside of that, I think I am done. May paint something else, but I think I am happy with the few changes. No Rice comments please, just wanted to share what is making me smile








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2003 Indi Blue Mini Cooper

2001 Black Audi Allroad 2.7T

http://www.rmcb5.com

 

Rice? I dont see anything ricey about it. You did a good job. What kind of paint did you use?

 

Very nice...and your garage too...cept your compressor needs a better hair doo

 

the paint I used was krylon high temp paint, silver for BBQ's, good up to 1400 degrees, and then used plasticoat clear engine paint which is good up to 500 degrees. Before I clear coated the parts, i put blue pinstriping down on the raised parts of the intake cover and the battery cover, then clear coated over that. I put on about 5 coats of clear to make it pretty smooth for easy cleaning.

 

The blue looks 100X better, nice car.

 

>>Very nice...and your garage too...cept your compressor needs a better hair doo

too funny, I just rolled it up the other day, spend an entire 12 hours in the garage working on the allroad, doing sway bars, new intake, throttle body and diverter valves for the twin turbos...I was too tired to clean up that darn hose. hehehe

 

nice dress-ups
I like the new color. It is good to have a blue car. I have a DS/W and silver is hard to go with some nice engine colors.
I painted my intercooler Cover and fuse box cover. here is the pics

 

looks good, thanks for sharing

 

Indigo - I like your painted silver intake manifold cover and battery cover, looks slick

 

Nice job Indigo!
I 2nd or 3rd or whatever the blue accents over the red, really looks nice!

Shelly

 

>>Indigo - I like your painted silver intake manifold cover and battery cover, looks slick

 

Looking good Jon, Hope to see it in person sometime soon!

 

I like it. Nicely done!

On a IB, I perfer the blue accent over the red as well. However, I didn't have much choice because I have the Alta intake that comes only in RED, which dictates the color scheme of the engine bay. :smile: