Engine & Internal Chat about beefing up your engine's insides here.

Engine dress up questions

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
  #1  
Old 05-27-2009, 04:56 PM
clutch811's Avatar
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Poland, OH 44514
Posts: 393
Cool Engine dress up questions

so I have been working on cleaning up my engine bay and making it look really, so atleast one part of my car does lol. anyway i had some questions about parts.

I wanna get new radiator hoses that are either colored or braided stainless. more or less i wanna get inexpensive without totally sacrificing quality. any ideas? i was looking at the blue silicon hoses at TAS auto.

I have seen them for other cars but not the accord. does anyone know if i can purchase accessory belts that are colored? blue preferably. alternator and power steering.

also does anyone reccomend anything that would make the engine just generally more appealing? resevoir caps, painting, etc.

thanks!
 
  #2  
Old 05-28-2009, 07:15 AM
JimBlake's Avatar
Super Moderator
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 18,398
Default

Maybe over in the Appearance forum?? I don't know, I've never looked for colored belts. Check places like Summit Racing??
 
  #3  
Old 05-28-2009, 08:20 AM
accordkid16's Avatar
Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: canada
Posts: 42
Default

paint your valve cover blue
 
  #4  
Old 05-28-2009, 02:24 PM
dfaulkner's Avatar
Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: tennessee
Posts: 141
Default

first off, don't do color hoses. It will look like crap. I like to call them clown snakes. First thing to do, is clean it. Clean it very good. A few painted items won't hurt, fuse cover, a few plastic pieces, valve cover. Then go for a few stainless hoses. Leave all others stock and black, just shine them up a bit. You can get a nice battery tie down, rad cap, dipstick, etc. Just please, don't make it look like a smurf threw up under your hood.
 
  #5  
Old 05-28-2009, 03:05 PM
clutch811's Avatar
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Poland, OH 44514
Posts: 393
Default

Originally Posted by JimBlake
Maybe over in the Appearance forum?? I don't know, I've never looked for colored belts. Check places like Summit Racing??
I've looked everywhere and no luck but thanks. I was gonna do the appearance forum but im assuming none exist lol.

Originally Posted by accordkid16
paint your valve cover blue
actually gonna try purple for that. previous owner had it this ugly chipping green lol.

Originally Posted by dfaulkner
first off, don't do color hoses. It will look like crap. I like to call them clown snakes. First thing to do, is clean it. Clean it very good. A few painted items won't hurt, fuse cover, a few plastic pieces, valve cover. Then go for a few stainless hoses. Leave all others stock and black, just shine them up a bit. You can get a nice battery tie down, rad cap, dipstick, etc. Just please, don't make it look like a smurf threw up under your hood.
alrighty i was thinkin stainless for radiator hoses. i did do my vacuum already in blue silicon but it doesnt look bad. yeah it needs cleaned good lol lots of road dirt and i've already got some things painted i just need to do some touch up and color matching. thanks for the help.
 
  #6  
Old 05-28-2009, 03:09 PM
finch13's Avatar
Been Around A Long Time Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 7,381
Default

HKS or Mugen makes a blue colored timing belt, that's about it.
 
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
sir_nasty
Engine & Internal
12
12-01-2011 02:32 PM
hotrodder1973
Appearance
8
04-02-2009 04:55 PM
MAPULENTO
General Tech Help
1
02-19-2007 07:35 PM
Boogy
Engine & Internal
2
02-18-2007 02:10 AM
Dean_Harryman
General Tech Help
6
01-11-2007 04:07 AM



Quick Reply: Engine dress up questions



All times are GMT -5. The time now is 06:33 AM.