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bling bling under the hood

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reZnor13

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what stuff under the hood is easily mirror polishable? like alternator, etc.
 

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See: "turbo swap in final stages" for polishable items...also 140's car has the valve cover done.
 

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Everything is aluminum under the hood (minus head and block)
 

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Stinger said:
Everything is aluminum under the hood (minus head and block)
Click to expand...
Aluminum = Polishable with some work.
 

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I was bored this afternoon so I actually made a list of stuff under the hood that could be cleaned up appearance wise. Here it is incase you are interested, maybe it'll give you an idea or something that you may have missed yourself.

- Upper and lower intake polished and powdercoated
- Alternator polished
- Air box and intake tubing waxed (to blacken it up more and give it a clean look)
- Battery terminals replaced (easily replaceable)
- Valve cover painted
- Timing belt cover painted
- Rad overflow container cleaned (I figure I'll just use Armor All car wash wipes or something of that nature)
- When I get a new header put on I'll probably polish it someway somehow
- Fan housing cleaned
- Underside of hood wiped down

Maybe this will give you some ideas, or maybe it'll help somebody sometime. Anybody else have anything to add to the list?
 

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Take a look at what this guy has done to his 2.3. Might give ya some ideas.

http://www.cardomain.com/id/travs93
 

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i did my Alt fan, then sprayed it with Clear coat to stop it from rusting.....
 

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Dan P. said:
Take a look at what this guy has done to his 2.3. Might give ya some ideas.

http://www.cardomain.com/id/travs93
Click to expand...

If your Daddy ran a Chroming shop your engine could look like that too!
I'm going to polish out everything too, for one of my summer projects!
 
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