Just another painted intake cover

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waketek516 got me inspired so I painted my cover just the way he did. Took a while to finish but the end result is amazing! I like it!

Still masked
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Finished
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:beerdrink: yeah it came out great! lol I'd rather hang it on my wall than put it back in the car.
 

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How, exactly, did you prep the intake for painting the raised areas? Recessed areas are easy to paint well, but raised areas give me a hard time for some reason.
 

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Clean, scrub the cover and dry then spray adhesion promoter on the whole cover then black primer. I did the raised areas first so I masked the whole intake cover except for the raised areas then paint. After the raised areas are looking good and dry I masked it=pita unmasked the cover and more paint.
 
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Took another peek under the hood, so I decided to paint the rad cover and fuse box lid. The rad cover is starting to fade so..paint time! I really need to get a painters mask to save my lungs.

Before radiator cover
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After
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I think its all in the prep. I used adhesion promoter and black primer on the plastic. So far the paint on the cover is holding up good, I thought it would peel by now because of heat from under the hood.

allinon72, your car looks sic!! love the rims and that color!
 

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