99-00 engine bay dress-up

[Drackonn]

im getting my intake in a few days and after taking a look at the engine bay i realized how plain it looks so i decided that my next project is to spruce it up. Do they sell any valve covers for the 99-00 1.6's? or can i paint mine and if so anyone have a how-to? also was wondering if anyone could give me any other ideas on how to clean it up

Thanks

[Motegi]

You could always get the wire loom, but that cracks and falls apart after a while, if yo dont take care of it.
I dont know of any 1.6L valve covers. I painted the mazda logo on mine with some touch up paint, but it chipped off because its not meant to stand up to the heat.

[Lil Freek]

you could use like caliper paint, couldn't you??
i think that stuff is heat resistant... to the max!

[Motegi]

yeah they have heat resistant paint at that autoparts stores in many different colors.

[protege00dogg]

here is what i did.. i had valve coverand heat shield polished and painted the oil cap, fuse box and other peices.. and put loom in... and look at it... looks really good too

[Motegi]

Originally posted by protege00dogg
here is what i did.. i had valve coverand heat shield polished and painted the oil cap, fuse box and other peices.. and put loom in... and look at it... looks really good too

tee hee

[Drackonn]

it does look very nice ... how much did it cost you just to dress everything up? including the polishing?

[protege00dogg]

hmm.... let see after everything was done it was a total of around 450 dollars... thats everything the loom, strut bar, polishing, AEM intake, and paint.....

[dahotprotege]

i definitly needa do that sometime.

[protege00dogg]

ok i found a clear picture....

[TheGreat1x2002]

man that looks clean. Man what type of paint did u put on that engine. All those colored hoses. how much that u get those for? and where? can u get white? thanks

[protege00dogg]

i used blue engine paint that i found at autozone... and the blue wires is just blue loom covering the black factory wires...

[TheGreat1x2002]

cool. looks tight. Tight as body kit. are those ebiach springs witht he drop you have there. man that looks good.

[protege00dogg]

no i have H&R springs

[pro00]

damn that engine looks tight!!!!

i want to have chrome like that in the engine bay!
how did you do that?