Evening all

Well i finally got sick of having a car i didn't want to lift the bonnet on, so i got to work today,

The engine is sporting an STI intercooler which wasn't up to much
All the fins were bent so I set about getting the broken ones off and doing what I could,

Thats now sorted and painted

Inlet plenum cleaned

Timing belt cover was flaking paint and rusted, so that was sand blasted and painted

Air cooler for the turbo was real shabby looking,
now painted

and the radiator cover again was flaking paint and rusted
now painted,

Discovered i was running with a boost leak as whoever fitted the samcos decided not to connect the pipe under the cooler lol

now fixed

Lots of pics.

Hope ya like

Cheers

Before;


During;

Inter cooler...






Left overs lol


Turbo cooler...





Timing belt cover sand blasted ready for paint


Painted

Made an STI stencil to apply logo to intercooler


Now ;






Cheers again

 

looks so much better now.

By the way thats not an sti intercooler, they're silver not black

 

Newbie error lol
Was told by prev owner it was,
Although he may have been talking about the strut brace lol

 

Wish I had the patience to get my engine that clean

 

Looking much better, what's next

 

started to do my intercooler fins once and it pissed me off after 10 mins so i gave up lol

 

lol yeah took me a good hour to sort it like

Next is just general tidying up,
all my previous cars have been modified under the bonnet with paint and bling etc,
Just want a really clean oem look for once

doesn't look too bad for a 96

cheers

 

Miles better, nice one.

 

ta muchly

 

Lazy ****

 

certainly looks good for it!!!

 

cheers all

thinking about painting the alloy part of the strut brace satin black tomorrow as its all scratched

 

Good effort mate.

 

cheers dude

Under there again today lol
Doing strut brace and battery retainer

 

Looks much better!
How do you get the see through bonnet effect on the pics?

 

cheers dude

Basicly get a tripod
Take 2 pics from the same position
1 with bonnet up, the other with it down
open both pics in photoshop (Or similar)
Copy the bonnet down pic and paste it on top of the bonnet up pic
Then while you have the layer with bonnet down pic selected, use the eraser tool on a feathered edge brush at about 40% occupancy.

Then start cutting away the bonnet,
Its up to you how much,
I start at the shut lines, do the whole bonnet, then click again working into the centre to give the gradual look

Hope that helps lol

Cheers

 

U dont need a tripod really, jus mark where ure stood to take both pics You can then adjust the layers in Pshop if not spot on. Looks good btw engine is a vast improvement.