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    I get that, I bought another car to drive while Im building my motor also. Im glad I came across this as I have an aluminum block M52 that I wanted to paint soon, and yours came out great. Hope you dont mind me stealing your method and color choice as it looks amazing. oh, and I almost bought that M50 from Keith, small world.
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      Originally posted by 2man View Post
      I get that, I bought another car to drive while Im building my motor also. Im glad I came across this as I have an aluminum block M52 that I wanted to paint soon, and yours came out great. Hope you dont mind me stealing your method and color choice as it looks amazing. oh, and I almost bought that M50 from Keith, small world.
      Didnt even notice you are pnw, nice!

      The aluminum etching products i used are
      PPG DX533
      PPG DX503

      The paint i used is Rustoleum High Heat Silver

      I feel like the etch did a great job, had very good coverage and the initial coat of paint felt like it bonded real nice, we'll have to see how it holds up but im pretty confident it will do fine.

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        Decided on a color scheme, satin black seems to be the ticket.

        Block and head are silver
        intake, fuel rail, alternator, motor mounts, timing/plug covers, intercooler piping, turbo compressor cover will all be powdercoated satin black.

        I think it should look good with the white engine bay and still provide a clean oem"ish" look.

        Ripped apart the front suspension tonight and will get it all cleaned up and blasted for powdercoating, along with some of the engine bits.

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          This looks so awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product!
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            epic.....EPIC!

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              Originally posted by e30polak View Post
              This looks so awesome! Can't wait to see the finished product!
              Thanks dude, means alot coming from you!


              Got some stuff back form powder coating, still have more things to get coated, wish i had money to buy the parts for the coilovers so i could finish the front struts and have them coated, oh well.

              just cleaned the steering rack, subframe got powdercoated along with anything else you see that is satin black.








              Also decided on location of fuse box and Vems ecu, both will be easily accessible by opening the glovebox.



              Extended the 40 wires off the fuse box this evening, no fun....


              Mounted the engine harness bulkhead connector



              Ugh pictures look like shit, stupid phone.

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                Wow so clean, love the sound of 5 cylinder turbos nice job.

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                  Had some time to start on the vems wiring today.
                  Wired up the relay sockets and the bulkhead milspec connector.

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                    unrelated but, i took the rover out for a morning run on some trails.




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                      I love the wiring work you're doing. it's giving me bad (good) ideas..

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                        Originally posted by evandael View Post
                        I love the wiring work you're doing. it's giving me bad (good) ideas..
                        One of my favorite things to do, it takes patience and money if you want to do it right but man it sure pays off!

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                          awesome what you did with the fusebox and wiring.. gonna read up on the rest

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                            not much new but it does give a bigger overall picture of how its coming along. Once i return from england i will be really working away at this thing, got lots of motivation all of a sudden!

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                              Every part of your front end is spotless, and I get a little jealous but then I think about how much time you must have into that... Keep it up!
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                                That is one clean bay and engine.
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