under the hood pics
 

i was under the hood of my truck the other day and my ol lady said that my engine was boring (women) so at first i laughed and i then i started thinking whats the point of making the outside look good when the engine looks like plain so the point of this useless thread is to ask for some pics of your motor or any thoughts of what i could do to please this unpleasabe woman i was thinking about pulling the valve cover and intake horn off and painting them but i cant think of a good color the outside of my truck is white

any thoughts?

A white valve cover and horn would look pretty sick, leave all the letters black. I think that would look cool. Paint that alternator bracket too.

I did my valve cover as described above, somewhat.

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Intake horn is the same grey. The compressor housing matches the valve cover paint as well. Here is a thread of how my compressor housing was done:
https://www.dieselbombers.com/bad-la...ent-color.html

Wheres your overflow cap haha. I like that color looks good. is that a compound twin?

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I painted my valve cover with high temp grill paint, it was nice and flat but leaning allover it getting it greasy made it kind of shiney

i think i may have to go white and i never thought about the alt bracket what kind of paint would last with the heat and i love the twins look we could just trade:w2:
and empty wallet how did you mask the lettering off i want mine to look that good
thats what i mean i can tell you both have nice trucks and i havent even seen the outside

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Just a before and after Nothing special, just cleaned up a bit. The intake horn, and apps braket are bare aluminum with a little mothers metal polish

you made that big of difference just by cleaning it some that after pic is a huge difference the only thing bad about mine is that it came from up north and there is some signs of salt damage under the hood

great pics keep em coming

Rust Or oxidation of the aluminum parts?

Here is mine. I have powder coated a couple of other things since this picture.

Damn fellas, I dig the under bonnet pics!

Thanks man, heres a pic of the valve cover right after I did it, I used a small brush and did the lettering by hand, took me about 2 hours.

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It wasn't on yet. Took that picture when I was almost done a Cam swap and turbo re-plumbing. Its a compound setup, HX35/40 over S471. If you look closely, you can see I'm recharging the A/C as well.

I bet that truck screams lol I would love to hear it.

yea the valve cover looks like crap and the top of my fuel filter looks bad trying to make things look a tad bit better
is the valve cover hard to remove it looks like a tight squeeze between it and the top of the firewall
so would normal spray paint work well or would i have to use the high temp paint i dont want to have to redo this in a month

Do high temp paint, or get it powder coated, Im from ohio so mines probably just as bad as yours ha, I havnt had time yet to make mine look pretty. I want performance first.

probaly high temp no one around here powder coats and yea i bought the truck 98 with 72,000miles but it came up by chicago so the doors are bad and the underneath the truck was bad im trying to get the body back in good shape before i put some more power to the ol girl all that power wont do any good if the truck is rotting away:dang:

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I palm sanded the letters and center section on mine instead of hand painting them.

I didn't use any special paint on mine. They grey is John Deere Construction Charcoal, and the Maroon is Snap-On Cranberry touch up paint for my tool box. The temperatures shouldn't get too high to warrant high temp paint. Mines holding up pretty well so far.

If you crank your speakers, you can hear it in this video:

I used 500 high heat I believe it was rustolum or dupli color.

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the cover is pretty tight coming in and out. id atleast get some 500 degree paint, it wont rub off if you spill somthing on it, and will last quite a while. also mine was real bad as you can see in the picture, i pressure washed it really good, then to remove the old paint/clear coat i used paint stripper, and a small wire brush to get in and around the fuel filter bracket/intake grid plenum.

I remember when I built 80 psi of boost, lmao not.

im gon with what you said the white with black lettering im starting on it now i have the intake horn the valve cover and the alt bracket im gon to do the thermostat elbow and put a new thermostat while im at it
while i got the cover off i was thinking of adjusting the valves what do they gap at or is it neccesary the truck has 88,000 and would i be better gon with the cummins brand thermostat

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Not my truck, but I wanna do it like this minus the spikes.

well i got everything off and i used that aircraft paint remover and i reccomend that to anyone it took everthing off right down to the bare alluminum i would have painted it but it started raining which is good because the crops looked like hell

I know that feeling " This is not normal":scare2: but it feels and pulls so hard.:yeah:

Since my truck is blue and silver Im gonna paint my valve cover dodge blue with silver lettering and do the alt braket and one day the entire engine at the 500K mark, got 260K to go...

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I like that comment "I remember the day I built 80PSI, LMAO NOT!!" its that oh shit moment then you realize you built your truck for it...