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straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:26 PM
well its back in the garage and now i can get to work cleaning the engine and some various parts and look into getting the engine dropped into the car. for the exterior for this year we shaved the door handles, the door locks, the antenna, the fuel door, the rear wing and then painted to match, i swapped the stock fenders back on then just sprayed it silver to match the car for now. i wanted to do more but funds are limited right now so its a little at a time. on with the pics for it. (oh and yeah the paint all matches up pretty good it was blended into the stock paint it just looks off in a few pics do to the doors being opened a bit so the angle is off making the paint to look two toned.























now for the area i went pretty wild with. im hoping to completly repaint the exterior and do the flamejob on the frontend of the car in blue. but for now i at least wanted to get the engine bay done while the motor was out. so the engine bay is going to look wild compared to the exterior but you gotta do that sometimes when your on a budget. im sure some of you wont like it, but im hitting the wild category at shows now so wanted to do something to draw peoples attention


valve cover was powdercoated black, then flamed up.



engine bay sprayed silver to matched then flamed up as well.



notice we had the yellow top painted to match as well.


he filled in a few dril holes and smoothed the seams on the strut towers



also have my work cut out for me because i went ahead and had him shave off the brackets for the fuse mounting location as well. i'll be extending the wires on everything and mounting it inside the car to help clean up the engine bay as much as possible and hide as much of the wiring as i can.hopefully it will help keep the engine bay way less cluttered.





well lets here the comments guys/girls, what do you think? have i lost my mind.





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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:34 PM
I like it.
I first saw the flames and was like, eh, but I like it. Whoever did it is pretty good at airbrushing.
Realistic flame is so much better looking than fake flames IMO.

I think it'd be cool to see the block painted too, like just black.

-Seth



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:40 PM
are you ever gonna stop!!!! haha looks awsome man i love the flames i think they look awsome. when the outside is flamed up it will be sweet. and yea you are in the wild category for sure. sad thing is last show i went to drop fest they put me in wild and i cant come close to comparing to this. hmmm im screwed LOL



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:52 PM
Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:56 PM
damn, that looks amazing!!!




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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 9:58 PM
wow i love it, expecially how to painted the batery to match, just hope that one never dies haha- good work man



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 10:05 PM
Holy crap.



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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 10:15 PM
PIMP!



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 10:16 PM
that flame job = sex



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Friday, December 22, 2006 10:29 PM
Dude its gonna suck for us trying to drop that motor in and not scratch anything. But alas we will get it done without so much as one single scratch to that wonderful bay.






Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:49 AM
damm those flames look pretty mean




Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:25 AM
ok as all these pics were loading i read flames.. and i was really disappointed.. BUT OMFG
if u get flames like that on the car thats gonna be @!#$ hot. Hopefully the Eco is smaller then that 2.2 was cuz if not itll be hard to not scratch that paint.





Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 4:59 AM
OMFG that is sick J. O and Aaron with as many of us that will be there to drop that thing in I dont think we will scratch it . That is going to be sick this spring when it can hit the roads.


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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:06 AM
Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:28 AM
looks damn good, but you made my plain black cover look like @!#$. lol


Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:30 AM
NICE JOB MAN ! KEEP IT UP AND DREAM BIG !
Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:47 AM
Jason C. wrote:

x2 thats just insane man




Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:00 AM
i like it



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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:22 AM
i give you 20347808679485993445374759834753 points for originality right there. thats @!#$ amazing. i never would have thought youd do something like that. looks great man. keep it up.





Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:31 AM
I have to say that's a very VERY interesting concept. If I was to ever move my gas filler that was always where I wanted to pull it... any reason why you didn't flush the lid a little further into the car?

The flame job on the engine bay is quite interesting, I'm going to have to see how this comes together for sure. One piece of advice I can offer, if you want to install the motor without scratching ANY of that, assemble the entire thing, accessories and all, remove the subframe, install it from the underside with the transmission attached, and then bolt the subframe up from underneath.

Good luck Jason! Lookin pimp!

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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:44 AM
Wow. I didn't see that coming at all. That is an awesome concept. It would sound horrible if you tried to explain it, but it looks amazing. The shaved handles and gas door look nice too. I understand the fender thing with all the smoothed out areas. Gonna look insane next year.




Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:49 AM
NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
MAN THATS LOOKING HOT!! (no pun intended)

sorry to cause you to go to such extremes so that you're dont have to compete against my car and lose! HAHAHAHAHAH





Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:49 AM
ah damn. didn't get a call from you last nite. i may have to come by today to look at it if you are around. that turned out way beyond what i was thinkin you were goin to do. valve cover looks awesome now. too bad you didnt take your intake to him. may have to go back. ya we are going to need a lot of tape or somethin to not scratch that bay. cant wait to work on this. awesome job.


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Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:21 AM
damn thats hott. at first when i read flames i was like ehhh, but then i saw it and it honestly blew my mind how good it looks, the only thing that is gonna suck is when you drop the motor in, which datwhitecavy, i think trey and myself want to come down and help with, not scratching it and then once you get it in and drive, its gonna be a bitch to keep clean. but i love it, its pure sex man



Re: straight from the paintshop.
Saturday, December 23, 2006 7:34 AM
what lid did you use for the gas fill neck.i did the same thing and the lid hits the deck lid.
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