Tim that looks great!! Randy awesome job man.

 

That looks real good!

Great job!

 

i taped off my letters before i painted mine. then i repainted the letters silver. if i had a cam id show u mine.

 

why cant i see the pictures. thats wierd

 

Cheater! haha...u didn't wanna spend the time to mask it off so u just painted over it n realized...uh oh! this looks REALLY plaaaaaaain...almost did the same thing cuz it was taking me forever to mask the letters and that damn yota symbol! But hey, great recovery...I'm diggin the CF look on there...I may consider doin that as well...maybe not tho...goddam toyota, gotta make their damn sign all whack...could be worse...it could be a ferrari...wait...if it were a Ferrari symbol on my cover, I would have a...DAMNIT!

Seriously tho...looks good...how did he do it? does he have a die-cut sticker machine n what not? or did he spend pain-staking hours doing them??

All for the sake of an OE look....

 

I guess if I read all the posts I could have answered my own questions...GOSH! such and IDIOT!

 

No you're not, mr. whipple so don't whip yourself. HEY your paint at bottom of previous page is great looking!

---Here, I spent all of ten minutes labor to paint my cover yeller this afternoon.
I've ordered the CF letters from Randode PLUS a surprise "legend"
you'll see, you'll all see, ha ha (demented cackling here)




The cover is as you all know has a lightly pebbled texture.
I make no attempt to sand it smooth because I like the texture. And to make it mirror gloss means a lot of sanding and filling and days for paint to shink hard.

SO- zero sanding was done. I washed the cover with Westley's tire cleaner (highly alkaline grease and dirt remover). Baked cover dry in the hot sun. Tack-ragged it with a wad of regular old masking tape. Sprayed it with the tail-end contents of this can of Krylon's amazing Fusion paint. Sprayed under a shed cover and on a ninety degree dry day (today, wheew!) And instantly laid out in the hot sun to max out the gloss.

It's done and cost only 2 bucks in materials and is a yellow that two-tones very sweetly with RS2 yellow.

-to the fellow on previous page who worries whether Randode's vinyl letters might melt from enjun heat. Ans: no worries

 

Tips about Fusion and spray bombs in general: Have used maybe ten cans of this yellow Fusion to date. Bought cans here and there as found in stock at hardware stores. Two cans were of a defective batch that just sprayed like the paint didn't have enough solvent. sppthy sort of. Not a nozzle clog. Just defective quality control. If your can of Fusion is right, it will spray nice and wet and lay out with no more orange peel than OEM paint.

BUT for best results you must spray in relatively low humidity. Damp air frosts the finish because the flashing-off solvent of Fusion or any such lacquer-like paint grabs up water from the air. If is sprays and looks low gloss then either the fault is high humidity or too great a spray distsance from the work, for the ambient temperature (solvent dries off before the paint gets laid down)

If sprayed in hot weather like we have here the finishing passes at least must be made with the can held no more than about six inches from the surface. OR efven less if you have the deft touch down.

This means that you must keept the spray pattern moving fast enough. The feature of the fan spray nozzle tip is a good advantage here. Round spray patterns like on Rustoleum paint are sucky. A fan spray tip can be rotated ninety degrees by fingernail pressure to give either horizontal or vertical spray pattern.

Advantage of this cheap and easy method for me is this: I can recoat easily if ever I ding the paint and there is no clearcoat to add to the work or worry.

 

^^^^^Nice work SciFly....

 

Urs is purtier for sure but this is easier I guess.

Hey, just put the cover back in -on top of bran' new Denso Iridium sparkle plugs!

I opened the gap to .055" from .040" (stock plugs=. 030" gap)

Now I'm gonna go blow them fl'ars off the gutter. Whoooo eeeeeeeeee

It should run even better than before. Placebo effect takes me for a ride! And if I don't fry the coils then goody goody. See spark plug thread at....
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=82333
for information about plugs plain, plat and iridium

Can't wait now for Randode's vinyl letter overlays to arrive.
But too, the cover looks A-OK without the lettering highlighted... for those who want to keep it simple as possible. (I don't. )

laters,
r

 

Awww the flowers a nice touch too!

Seriously, looking good!!!

 

The dam tree I parked under for shade is about the only shade left after the recent Katrina passed by.

This is what we have for Fall Colors here in South Florida
heh heh heh i"m gonna tease the snowbound this winter, but good!

Thank you for the good thoughts 'gal and let's keep Yelosub's thread in view.

Where are the Lava covers, hummmmm?????

 

still wanna see the how the stickers handle the heat

 

Well, then we need a LAVA cover job for a fair heat test

I'm gonna guess tho that vinyl, which was first developed in the late 1920's, and grows soft with heat, will simply stick all the more tenaciously to the cover with use.

And unlike exterior vinyl graphics after long sun exposure killing off the plasticizer, I'd expect vinyl on the not-so-hot cover to just last for many years.

But maybe not! Need to test! How hot does the engine cover get? I'll stick on a probe and watch from inside the car. IF if does not get over, say, 200F no worries.

cheers and let time tell.

 

That looks great. I am thinking of painting mine red and ordering white stickers.

 

i wonder what gold leaf vynal will look like on BCP

 

not bad I expect...go for it

 

So far I have had the vinyls on for over a week...It gets hotter than HELL here in Az and with the engine heat and the hot weather, so far the the vinyl looks the same...Only time will tell...

 

that CF looks clean on the yellow

 

YEah, that was the best choice for our yellows, YELOSUB fake CF, yehawww!

So, guys and 'Gal, please consider that Krylon line of Fusion paints.
If you try a color and don't like it? PAINT over it again.

It's such a nothing-thing, this cover, when it's just plain charcoal.

Make a splash of life under the hood.


Your color doesn't need to match the exact factory exterior paint. A contrast of some sort can be -a plus-!

You too may decide the cover does not really require highighting the letters (but I like dat myself)

cheers. Post pics today dudes and dooodette!