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Sketch
10-05-2009, 07:10 PM
Well, hope everyone had a good weekend. Saturday was excellent weather, so I took advantage of it to tackle my latest project. I painted all the parts in the same color as my Mustang, Grabber Orange, and quickly learned why that color costs so dang much while watching it being mixed. It contains about 7 different colors in its mixture and allot of clear-coat added in. Attached the pics of the process I went through, starting with the factory style plenum cover and extension then the carbon fiber fuel rail covers. I had to lay out the lettering and stripes on the fuel rail covers and paint the "powered by ford" on the plenum cover by hand. I still have to clear coat them this week but all in all I'm very pleased with the out come and should have them installed before too long.
Sketch
10-05-2009, 07:11 PM
And the other pics
ArkansasMystic
10-05-2009, 07:12 PM
Wow, that's impressive. Nice work!
hammerhead2
10-05-2009, 08:03 PM
Looks very good man.
mb2
10-05-2009, 09:35 PM
Man that will look awesome
Bigjht
10-05-2009, 09:59 PM
That's awesome. I've thought about doing something similar with my plenum but I don't think the white would be quite as difficult and I'm sure I wouldn't be skilled enough to do as good of a job.
Blackjack
10-05-2009, 10:17 PM
Nice work man!
oxman
10-06-2009, 10:53 AM
That looks really good man!!
AzianStang
10-06-2009, 03:42 PM
Man you did a sweet job. That's what I'm talking about. Customizing something custom.

Did you get the paint from Ford?
1low03gt
10-06-2009, 05:28 PM
That looks sweet!
Sketch
10-06-2009, 05:33 PM
Thanks everyone.
mb2
10-06-2009, 05:56 PM
*wants to see underhood pics* :)
blackpony
10-06-2009, 09:32 PM
man that turned out awesome
Terminator
10-07-2009, 10:00 AM
Nice work!!!
01LonestarBullitt
10-07-2009, 12:29 PM
that is some very impressive work, can't wait to see it all come together
Sketch
10-07-2009, 04:24 PM
Man you did a sweet job. That's what I'm talking about. Customizing something custom.

Did you get the paint from Ford?


I had a friend of mine that owns a body shop mix the paint. 8oz for the Grabber Orange (Valancia) cost me $65 and thats with him giving me a break. Couple other local places and online sites were going to charge close to $80 with out shipping added in for 8oz
Sketch
10-13-2009, 06:21 PM
Well, I finally got the steel brackets needed to install the fuel rails so here it is.
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/07GTCSFB/VSCN1277.jpg
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/07GTCSFB/VSCN1278.jpg
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/07GTCSFB/VSCN1276.jpg
http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/tt66/07GTCSFB/VSCN1275.jpg
hammerhead2
10-13-2009, 06:30 PM
Looks great Sketch
ArkansasMystic
10-13-2009, 07:27 PM
Wow, excellent work. I saw this at the show this past weekend, and even without being completely done it looked amazing!
dadejack
10-13-2009, 07:53 PM
I like it. Good job!
MemphisStylee
10-13-2009, 09:29 PM
Looks awesome im really diggin the way you did the fuel rail covers. This is making me want to break out a couple rattle cans and liven up the engine bay :D
mb2
10-15-2009, 06:59 PM
That looks great man
Sketch
10-16-2009, 10:10 PM
Thanks guys!