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Old 05-20-2012 | 12:59 AM
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Has anyone dressed up their engine with paint or chrome? Other than painting your valve cover, buying colored spark plug wires and dist. caps, and adding components that are already painted (i.e. browndog engine mounts).
Has anyone painted their fuel rails, battery fan shrouds, plastic pieces and even engine block?
Please post pics and say what you did and how you did it!!
Old 05-20-2012 | 01:31 AM
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A guy named Kyles92laredo started a thread in Cherokee Chat the other day and posted this picture of his engine bay. You should ask him
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Old 05-25-2012 | 06:48 PM
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Got a bit carried away with engine paint. Painted everthing except intake and exhaust manifold.


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Powder coated valve cover and fuel rail.

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Old 05-25-2012 | 06:56 PM
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Does Mud brown count?
Old 05-25-2012 | 07:21 PM
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Yeah, man, CHROME EVERYTHING!!!

Then put spinnerz on it!
Old 05-25-2012 | 07:21 PM
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Oh, moved to Chat.
Old 05-25-2012 | 10:16 PM
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I got ask what the point? if u use ur jeep like ur supposed to this would be a complete waste
Old 05-25-2012 | 10:32 PM
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An excuse to open the hood around your friends and impress them.
Old 05-25-2012 | 10:33 PM
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No offense, but yuk. Way too much red.

Old 05-26-2012 | 11:29 AM
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Did someone bleed all over that engine bay? lol
Old 05-26-2012 | 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by 1976Mustang
An excuse to open the hood around your friends and impress them.
Nah. Form follows function. Especially in a Jeep. I'm usually impressed with cleanliness, not excessive amounts of chrome and painting...wasted effort to me.

But if bathing your engine in red/chrome/purple junk is fun for you to do then, to each his own and +1 for effort!
Old 05-26-2012 | 12:11 PM
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lol screw that, i keep my jeep coated in mud brown, and let the rain clean it.
Old 05-26-2012 | 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 1animal
Got a bit carried away with engine paint. Painted everthing except intake and exhaust manifold.

Powder coated valve cover and fuel rail.
Pretty impressive. The attention to detail makes this totally BA! Haha, if the color scheme were described to me, I may think ricer, but seeing it- def not ricer! A ricer would have done a sloppy *** job.. This is clean!
Old 05-26-2012 | 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by VTJeep
Pretty impressive. The attention to detail makes this totally BA! Haha, if the color scheme were described to me, I may think ricer, but seeing it- def not ricer! A ricer would have done a sloppy *** job.. This is clean!
X2 haha i thought the EXACT same thing.
if someone tried to explain how it looked id just laugh.

but looking at it, its pretty Shnazzy!
the green and purple go REAALLLY well together.
and i would not have expected that

Props to whoever put the hours of extra work into painting that


the red one is overkill tho..
Old 05-26-2012 | 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by 1animal
Got a bit carried away with engine paint. Painted everthing except intake and exhaust manifold.

Powder coated valve cover and fuel rail.
I love that!!!!



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