2.0L 1/2 HEMI MOPAR Old School

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:23 pm

Here is my duplicate, I saw this on someone else's car around here and I liked it so much that I had to do it myself. I call it the

Old School Mopar 1/2 HEMI

Here are before and after pictures. BTW the car was upgraded with UDP and an ICEMAN intake.
Dismatling the engine. ohhh so fun.

Ohhh BTW the engine has 67K miles on it and its freakin clean under there, thanks to MOBIL1 SYN since day one.

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE

AFTER

702Neon · Post by **702Neon** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:29 pm

nice and clean......i like it!
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Creampie Xxx

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:33 pm

702Neon wrote:nice and clean......i like it!

I was a little afraid that I was gonna over do it so I backed off on the Orange, paint, made it look somewhat of a dull orange rather then shiny and I tried to make it darker then the screaming old school orange that they used. I also tried to keep the entire compartment clean, dust and oil free but i still have to tuck away some of those wires and hoses.

flhmfd · Post by **flhmfd** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:05 am

damn i was going to do that...is it hemi orange?

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 6:45 am

flhmfd wrote:damn i was going to do that...is it hemi orange?

Its actually a CHEVY Orange by Duplicolor, the other kind of orange was almost too dark and reddish looking so I picked this one as it looked much better, much closer to the MOPAR orange back in the days.

Cbussilver01es · Post by **Cbussilver01es** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:13 am

Kinda looks like supertrick's valve cover. Looks pretty good. Nice and clean

supertrick_05 · Post by **supertrick_05** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:28 pm

COPY CAT!!!!

Ha, looks good, but you gotta do something with the lettering. Looks kinda blah with them painted orange. Might look cool if you sanded them down to bare metal and polished them?

JFTL · Post by **JFTL** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 7:55 pm

What are you guys using for a clear coat when you do this (if any) ?

Thanks,
Kevin

supertrick_05 · Post by **supertrick_05** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:31 pm

I myself didn't use clearcoat on the valve cover...I did, however, use it on my injector cover. I used the DupliColor's High Temp engine enamel clearcoat. Works very well and gives a very high-gloss look, but the valve cover came out SO good, I didn't use any and still looks fantastic without it.

01rtgurl · Post by **01rtgurl** » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:40 pm

hey when you painted your DC strut bar, did you just mask off the logo plate that is pop riveted on?? Mine is looking real crappy from contacting the hood, rubbing the paint off the bar, and now it's rusting.

GTS · Post by **GTS** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:34 am

01rtgurl wrote:hey when you painted your DC strut bar, did you just mask off the logo plate that is pop riveted on?? Mine is looking real crappy from contacting the hood, rubbing the paint off the bar, and now it's rusting.

Well I took the tag off, removed the rivvets and cleaned it carefully after which i clearcoated it with maybe 5 coats of clear, and then simply bolted it back on with two little bots and tiny nuts on the back side. I think it looks better that way although I think that the underside mat was touching it again and now the clearcoat has got some roughness to it from that so maybe I will have to redo it.

JFTL · Post by **JFTL** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:04 am

supertrick_05 wrote:I myself didn't use clearcoat on the valve cover...I did, however, use it on my injector cover. I used the DupliColor's High Temp engine enamel clearcoat. Works very well and gives a very high-gloss look, but the valve cover came out SO good, I didn't use any and still looks fantastic without it.

Ok, cool. I want to do a Fuel Rail Cover, and the Valve Cover in Mopar Corperate Blue. I was originally going to powdercoat the valve cover, but I want the two to match good.

01rtgurl · Post by **01rtgurl** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 6:17 pm

GTS wrote:Well I took the tag off, removed the rivvets and cleaned it carefully after which i clearcoated it with maybe 5 coats of clear, and then simply bolted it back on with two little bots and tiny nuts on the back side. I think it looks better that way although I think that the underside mat was touching it again and now the clearcoat has got some roughness to it from that so maybe I will have to redo it.

Hmm. Interesting. Thanks for the reply. I wonder if my bar is the only one effin up my hood from the contact