Awesome project man, glad you picked a good orange color. Orange always looks good.

 

Are you gonna replace the brembo decal?
I did on mine and it made it look a lot better than simply painted

 

yes sir, just ordered black ones on ebay last night

 

looks good so far... waiting on my Hahn Intake to arrive today. Hopefully makes the BPV notice. Can't wait till you spray your entire car.

 

Ever since i found this thread i check it every day when i wake up lol.... Its like christmas morning looking at the new pics.

Great **** man, really coming along good.

 

Do you have any more plans for the engine bay as far as paint/dress up goes? Valve cover? Charge pipes? etc..

 

Well i have my charge pipes in gloss black, and I have a gloss black dejon intake with an AEM dry filter, the silver HKS, so when thats in it should make it look alot nicer. But i want to get my intake manifold powdercoated gloss black and my valve cover either black with orange "Ecotec Turbo Charged" or Orange with Black "ecotec turbocharged". Also put my orange fuse box cover on today and am gonna get a black "SS" sticker to put on it. sorry i forgot to take pics of that on there, looks real nice in the engine bay. I want the bay to be clean looking, dont wanna add too much orange and make it tacky.

short day today, sean had to meet his contracter at 1130 so i only had a few hours to work, started candy'ing the lip on the rims but wont finish till monday/tuesday of next week when i can get back there. Dash pieces are done though. Have black "Cobalt SS" lettering to go on it








And a dude is airbrushing a file cabinet for a car show just to show some cool **** he did.


hes still working on the highlights and is gonna do the eyes and ****, then there gonna candy over the whole thing i think, i dont really know ehe specifics of it. Asked him to Airbrush "SS" on my interior piece but he said hes not that great at letters unless he has a stencil, he didnt wanna **** it up

 

I vote Orange w/black...good to have the contrast between it and the firewall and charge pipes.

 

You should have taken the clips and pads out of the calipers before you painted them. Would have been more factory looking. Now it looks a little rushed. I LOVE the color though, nice choice.

 

iv never dissasembled calipers myself yet, or changed brakes as a matter of fact. and if i was gonna take **** out i might as well of just taken them off and hung them in the booth, but i wasnt too meticulous about the calipers, im just interested in the face of them color matching the car, thats really all. the rest of it is whatever to me, im not being real picky about them as its kind of an experiment to see how the paint even holds up on them. If it starts to get shitty becasue of the heat then im gonna have to see if G2 can color match and ill have to redo them anyways, but the primer held up good and saw a video online of a body shop candy'ing calipers. So who knows lol

 

I would just keep the charge pipes, intake, valve cover, and intake mani gloss black and just make the ecotec turbo in orange. Gotta keep it subtle and clean.

 

orange with black your whole engine bay is black.

 

i gotta decide what to do but i think a mostly black engine bay would look real nice and clean with just like ecotec turbo in orange and ****. I hate cheesy looking engine bays, if I could do it and get it to hold up, id like to do a kind of marble/woodgrain valve cover in orange and black. I tink that would look sweet. like mostly black with orange swirls kinda in it. but its just this whole high temperature thing that sucks.

 

now THAT would be a badass idea. Lookin' good though. I really want to see what that decklid looks like painted

 

Nice Kevin, lookin good bro! Cant wait to come home and see it in person.

 

thanks bud!

found out were gonna be in the shop monday so rims will be done monday, and hopefully finish up the spoiler and get it primed AGAIN lol.

 

God i want that orange, Such an amazing color.

 

^lol right! im very happy i went with it. It is a really beautiful color. I like it cause it doesnt really look OEM, and its pretty wild. Its actually pretty fun to spray that candy too. Like spraying the silver and then when you start to spray the orange watch it change it to much. Im really happy with it.

 

man this car is gona look so awesome... i wish i had the facilities you have 2 paint in

 

When are you going to paint the damn thing so we can do a photo shoot. As far as your calipers i used a Testors model car paint that i found to match my car on my Baer calipers and they look like they did when i sprayed them. We need to have an East Coast Cobalts meet before i deploy in July.

 

So you didnt use high temp paint on your calipers and there holding up fine?

And hell yea man well have a meet as soon as its done. im unemployed right now and im waiting on an interview which should be any time now so i wanna get on it! Car will finish getting prepped for paint this week and masked up, and will be sprayed next week.

 

I used a base coat of that hi temp caliper paint you can get at any parts store, then i sprayed the color, then a clear and still looks amazing.

 

^Thats what this honda kid said to me in class who painted a bunch of valve covers that he sells! he lays down hi temp paint first and then paints over it, but i didnt understand how that helped because the paint on top of it still gets an extremely high temperature. And he couldnt tell me how they held up because he never actually put one he painted on his car, he just sells it and then thats it lol

 

I dont think my brakes get that hot though with them being drilled and slotted. I dont think you will have a problem either.

 

i hope not, i think the calipers will be alright also since there outside the car and when your driving there cooling. But i really wanna do something different to my valve cover and that gets damn HOT. Especially on a turbo with the hot charge pipes running across it and everything. I could get it powdercoated but i would like to customize it in a way powdercoating cant do