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Junior2552
09-19-2013, 04:00 PM
Hey yall. Been a while since I've posted. Got the ZHP in the garage for the winter mods and I started with a little rough draft of a project. I am ordering carbon fiber engine covers for the M54, so I decided to mess around a little with the stock engine covers.

I love mono-colored schemes. My car is Sparkling Graphite Metallic, so I went with white, silver, a carbon grey, and gloss black. I used the //M logo as my motivation and went from there. I used Dupicolor Engine Enamel and a lot of different sandpapers to get the look I wanted. There is still mask-off tape on the covers, so pardon them, but the paint looks pretty cool! I probably won't use them being that I want to use the carbon ones, but I'm not mad at this project!

If I'm being honest, I have the M stripes painted in the corner wall of my room. I'm a purist.

http://i654.photobucket.com/albums/uu269/ugotservd2315/6510db2e-2a14-4258-8b3b-f776feda9e75_zpsb32495f6.jpg (http://s654.photobucket.com/user/ugotservd2315/media/6510db2e-2a14-4258-8b3b-f776feda9e75_zpsb32495f6.jpg.html)

Junior2552
09-19-2013, 04:01 PM
The middle grey came out a little bronze with the flash, but it looks more like a dark grey than a green-bronze, haha.

danewilson77
09-19-2013, 04:03 PM
Looks good. In for final pics.

johnrando
09-19-2013, 08:32 PM
Interesting, I like the idea.

brettbimmer
09-20-2013, 08:30 AM
Agree, it looks good. I'm in for final pics too. It actually reminds me of my old E30:

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330i ZHP
09-23-2013, 04:45 AM
brett - your e30 engine looked great

QC_ZHP
09-23-2013, 08:58 AM
Love that e30 pic

Junior2552
09-26-2013, 04:46 PM
Thanks guys, I'll post up when I have finals!