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Yesterday I woke up around 11:00 and went over to a friend's house, who had a nice warm garage. We spent a little over four hours chaning my plugs and wires, damn it was utter hell. I had to be at work at 5:00 yesterday, so we didn't get to do anything else.
Today at 10:30, I went back over there, and we took a trip to O'Reily Auto and bought some engine temp clear coat, and a red caliper painting kit. The kit was a rip off, it came with some crappy cleaner and a little can of paint for $17, so I plan on returning it. (It was supposed to include two brushes, tape, and a stir-stick.)
Anyway, we spent a good 20 minutes cleaning and scrubbing my driver's side caliper with a brass brush, got it to shine a little bit. Applied first coat of the red paint, stuck an old heater in front of it, and cracked open my SLP CAI that arrived today.
While the first coat was drying, we spent a good hour and a half trying to get the CAI put on. The SLP directions suck, and are pretty vague... so we just sort of guessed and checked.
I cracked the lid that covers my radiator, so that'll need to be replaced pretty soon... heh.
We finally got the SLP CAI installed, and went back to another few coats on the calipers, followed by a clear coat. Moved on to the second wheel, and decided to paint in the "3800 Series II" on my engine," it looks pretty awesome!
The calipers look very nice against the chrome, I plan on getting chrome "CAMARO" letters for them soon. The engine looks nice, I plan on painting the area around the words a black (maybe) but for now the 3800 SERIES II looks pretty nice. I polished up my break lines to a nice chrome look, and degreased most of the engine bay. Found out that I have an oil leak, and my radiator desperately needs to be flushed. (Hurray for brown, cloggy, gunked up radiator fluid.)
Long story short, I've got a throttlebody gasket on order, picking it up in the morning at NAPA, so we're going to clean my TB, and polish it up a bit. I'll probably detail the engine bay a bit more, and I'm installing black hood louvers on my green hood, for added color contrast.
If there's anything you guys can think of that can be done tomorrow, something that looks nice, or will boost performance, or whatever, let me know. Thanks! Pictures will be coming tomorrow.
Today at 10:30, I went back over there, and we took a trip to O'Reily Auto and bought some engine temp clear coat, and a red caliper painting kit. The kit was a rip off, it came with some crappy cleaner and a little can of paint for $17, so I plan on returning it. (It was supposed to include two brushes, tape, and a stir-stick.)
Anyway, we spent a good 20 minutes cleaning and scrubbing my driver's side caliper with a brass brush, got it to shine a little bit. Applied first coat of the red paint, stuck an old heater in front of it, and cracked open my SLP CAI that arrived today.
While the first coat was drying, we spent a good hour and a half trying to get the CAI put on. The SLP directions suck, and are pretty vague... so we just sort of guessed and checked.
I cracked the lid that covers my radiator, so that'll need to be replaced pretty soon... heh.
We finally got the SLP CAI installed, and went back to another few coats on the calipers, followed by a clear coat. Moved on to the second wheel, and decided to paint in the "3800 Series II" on my engine," it looks pretty awesome!
The calipers look very nice against the chrome, I plan on getting chrome "CAMARO" letters for them soon. The engine looks nice, I plan on painting the area around the words a black (maybe) but for now the 3800 SERIES II looks pretty nice. I polished up my break lines to a nice chrome look, and degreased most of the engine bay. Found out that I have an oil leak, and my radiator desperately needs to be flushed. (Hurray for brown, cloggy, gunked up radiator fluid.)
Long story short, I've got a throttlebody gasket on order, picking it up in the morning at NAPA, so we're going to clean my TB, and polish it up a bit. I'll probably detail the engine bay a bit more, and I'm installing black hood louvers on my green hood, for added color contrast.
If there's anything you guys can think of that can be done tomorrow, something that looks nice, or will boost performance, or whatever, let me know. Thanks! Pictures will be coming tomorrow.
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