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wyldpny

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If you wouldn't mind, could you please look at my engine bay:


and please recommend any engine dress up pieces you are aware of, thanks
BTW, not shown in this picture that have since been added are a chromed BBK CAI set up and a polished alternator cover.

We have a couple big Mustang shows coming up in the beginning of June and I am looking for any pieces that will help my Stang look even better when on display with the hood up.

Thanks in advance for any help

Steve
 
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Lose all the colored wire loom and decals. If you want dress up items, check out UPR and MGW.
 

d98gt

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Might wanna lose some of the "GT" writing. I think they'll get the idea that it's a mustang GT when they see it

I like the way that the radiator cover piece looks, though I personally wouldn't be able to run it on my car. It'd be so dirty http://www.uprproducts.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=461
 

flstang65

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bullitt453 said:
Lose all the colored wire loom and decals. If you want dress up items, check out UPR and MGW.
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wyldpny

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Ok, I guess what I was hoping for here was for some replies from members who have already installed some dress up pieces on their 4.6 engines and could give me details and feedback on how they like them and where to find them. Sorry if I didn't word my first post as well as I should have.

Here are some more current updated pics of my '01 vert's engine bay:



I agree that you can possibly have too much of a good thing, speaking of the GT logo all over, which is interesting with the comments to go to sites like UPR as many of the billet pieces from some of these companies like the radiator cap, brake fluid cap etc can come with...you guess it, a GT logo on them
I agree about the colored wire looms not being the best solution which is one of my reasons for requesting help on here for other better ways to dress up the engine bay.
I would also love to find some replacement hoses/pipes in chrome or even just polished if possible for some of those hoses that currently have those colored plastic looms on them. Anyone know where I could find some of those?

Thanks again

Steve
 
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BLKsteeda

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take a look at my engine...might give you some suggestions...

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wyldpny

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BLKsteeda said:
take a look at my engine...might give you some suggestions...

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Sweet!

I take it your stang is a Steeda, which means that most, if not all of your engine dress up accessories have the Steeda logo on them?
If so, do you know if those dress up pieces can also be purchased plain without the Steeda llogo and if so could you point me to a web or two that offers them?

Thanks

Steve
 

Wolvrin704

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Check out Late Model Restoration as well. Most sites that sell Mustang parts have dress up pieces.
 

urban96

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canton makes some nice pieces (coolant overflow tank and power steering tank) that can be polished up nicely
 

mixedbreed02gt

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best thing to do would be take some things off your car to a chrome dipping place that way you can get what you want done. also you can buy a chrome alternator, valve covers, etc.

however if you're trying to bling bling the engine compartment I will warn you, some bling bling things that have a gasket under them such as valve covers, won't seal as well as if they weren't chroome...so be prepared for that, other stuff that's not chrome, you won't have a problem with.
 

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http://www.cantonracingproducts.com/tanks/mustang_tank.html
 

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i see your name is.....Steve
 

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Where did you get all those braided lines? They look sick
 
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wyldpny said:
Sweet!

I take it your stang is a Steeda, which means that most, if not all of your engine dress up accessories have the Steeda logo on them?
If so, do you know if those dress up pieces can also be purchased plain without the Steeda llogo and if so could you point me to a web or two that offers them?

Thanks

Steve
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It's a Steeda but I do not have one logo on any of my chrome parts under my hood...Steeda sells chrome parts without logos on them...I also have parts from www.mgwltd.com under there as well. You can also check out www.uprproducts.com
 
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You will have better luck in car shows by removing the yellow wire loom. It is frowned upon by the majority of judges. It is more important to have a CLEAN engine bay, than to have a bunch of junk......just to have a bunch of junk. Spend about 2 hours cleaning your entire engine bay. And then clean it again.....and again.

If you still want to buy some "eye candy," I would suggest UPR products. The first items, you should buy would be the oil cap cover, radiator cap cover, and possibly the fuse box cover. These are very simple items, that are nice and clean, and not over the top BLING!!! (But once again....I can promise you...you will have a better chance of winning, if your engine bay is immaculantly clean and you have a car that looks like it has never been driven, than one with a **** ton of autozone stuff, to make it "look" cool.)

Heres a couple of quick pics of my engine bay, for an example of some of those pieces.



 

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I'm not really a fan of what the OP has done so far. These are mustangs not hondas. I'm not calling him a ricer but there are certian ways you should style a muscle car compared to an import. I like the more classic look. I not like chrome of pollised parts either.

Here is mine. Its an older pic and some things are gone now as I only had them in as temp like the braided PCV line and some of the loom.
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wyldpny

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Wow, I have to say that seeing a comment like "These are Mustangs not Hondas. I'm not calling him a ricer but there are certain ways you should style a muscle car compared to an import." is very interesting to say the least.
My first car was a 1973 Plymouth Duster 340 that I bought back in the late 70's. As my dad and I modded that red with white racing stripes beast I did very similar things with detailing that car that I am now doing with my Stang. I guess it's true that some things never change.
My first Mustang was a white 1972 Mach-1 that I purchased in 1983. Again I detailed that Stang in a similar fashion. Later I detailed my 1979 black Mustang GT, then my 1971 Monte Carlo, 1984 Pontiac Trans-Am, 1987 Pontiac Fiero GT, etc, etc.

So oxfordgt, I'm curious now. Exactly what is the "correct" way in your mind to mod a late model Mustang over a car like say a Honda? I'm not trying to sound sarcastic or snobby, I would really like to know.
The reason I ask is that I always find some of the comments interesting from those who either don't know, have forgotten or were not around in even the later days of muscle cars and well before the latest generation in the 90's and into the new millennium that started to buy and mod import cars. They say imitation is a form of flattery, and if that is true than anyone who has ever modded a muscle car, or even any cars in the same or a similar year, especially the late 60's and all of the 70's and maybe some of the early 80's (before the government stepped in and squashed the muscle cars and HP wars for awhile) should be able to see that the newer generation of kids who are now modding the cars that are current for them, that being cars like the later model Firebirds, Mustangs, and obviously many imports are only doing some of the same things that some of us did, and even what our fathers did with the older generation of cars.
I am not talking about "performance" fart can mufflers, light up windshield washer squirters, fake fins, etc
I am talking about things like what we are talking about here. These things have been around for many many years and came about due to our fathers and grandfathers who were always looking to add not only extra go fast goodies but dress up pieces as well.
Along with flame paint jobs, lots of chrome and racing stripes also came engine dress up goodies which the "ricers" as many like to call them are now also doing on their rides as well.
I guess it's also true the old saying: "What was old is new again"...or something like that
 

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if it makes you happy, go for it, not everyone has to like it.

the styling now seems to be less=more.
 

oxfordgt

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What I was refering to was the bright colored loom just kinda thrown on to wires for no reason. Loom is protection not dress. And the stickers all over the car. I mean I was haveing a hard time telling ig it was a mustang gt so it did help out LOL. Classic engine dress for a mustang in my mind at least is simple, clean and performance orianted. Most everybody else that posted pics have done theirs the way that I think mustangs should be done. So I guess I'm not the only one that thinks that way. Before you say anything about the blue loom in my pic, It was all I had left in the garage after ricing out my wifes spare car (sunfire) and I had to use it to protect the clutch cable for the longtubes and my fps vacume line that ran under the intake.

By the way sleeve over braided lines dont look good when thrown on lines that don need them. Kinda cheesy.

I would list my list of cars too but whats the point. This is my 10th mustang and have been doing it since 1990, I'm only 31 so you got a head start.
 
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I've talked to a judge at a car show and he took points off of my car for "chrome" wire looms...said they subtract from the car...told me if I take them off right there he'll put the points back on.
 
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