check this out if you wish, i painted my vavle cover, and decided i would use some sand paper to scratch off the paint off the "Mazda" and "16 valve DOHC" things, whatever you call them

http://www.geocities.com/jac784/protege/protmotor1.jpg

 

f@#$ing geocities

http://www.geocities.com/jac784/index.html

 

Very nice! And it's the right colour too!

You want to come over and do mine?

 

Very nice, definitely one of the best valve cover paintings I've seen.

 

 

Very very nice....same color I'm thinking of doing my calipers...gives me some ideas alright....Did you use the same kind of paint? How long did it take you and what grit sandpaper did you use...?

 

Nice! You might want to put some clearcoat over the bare aluminum on the letters, though, so it doesn't get all dull.

 

nice work....looks good

 

I painted mine then sanded the letters so I could paint them if that counts...

 

Now that looks very sharp...I'm impressed. I am not very color coordinated personally. With my Sand colored Prot. what color would you paint the calipers and the valve cover? I was thinking blue, but the red started me thinking again. Any suggestions?

 

Very impressive

 

I would seriously do them al lsand to match the car. It's never been done before, and there's somethng about a car with matching parts that just looks phat as hell.

Here's my buddy Glen's car (Funky Buddha) that we did this afternoon.

http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/sho...threadid=30461

 

I have an emerald mica green Protege and I was thinking about painting my valve cover and brake calipers. What color would you all recommend? I was thinking about either red for the valve cover (because the Injen CAI filter) and silver for the calipers (because of the wheels) or just painting everything silver. Any other ideas that might look good?

 

Not silver, what about chrome?

 

theres really not a chrome paint you can get that has a high metallic look