aspire bp swap progress

[aithanmier]

well not much progress yet, just getting the engine cleaned up and painted, gonna try to get it in the aspire this weekend weather and 3 year old permitting. here are a couple of pics of the engine so far.

[mattswabb]

Looks nice. Take a wood block and a piece of sandpapare and sand off the paint on the Ford and DOHC emblem

[project b6t]

have you ever seen that Nissan truck with the sr20det motor in it on cardomain? Paint looks exactly the same.. LOOKS BAD ASS!!



Hope every thing goes smooth in the install

[aithanmier]

could be, it's a stock color, hot rod green. they sell itat wally world . i was really impressed with the shine on the aluminum paint for the exhaust manifold, looks like a mirror! I'm planning on sanding down the valve cover for the ford and dohc logos, just havn't found my sanding block yet. need to clean it up now, damn barn swallows in my garage !

[Guest]

yeah.. nothing like going through all the trouble only to find bird crap on it in the morning... :evil:

[glacius182]

Did you get your block sandblast before the paint?

[aithanmier]

naw i didn't sandblast the block before paint. the engine was virtually brand new and the factory black paint was in supurb condition. so i just paint prepped it, masked it and shot it. i was waaaaay too nervous about getting blast media inside the engine to sandblast it! I imagine aluminum oxide particles wouldn't mix well with my cylinder walls. yeah your right dj lol, luckily the bird didn't crap on the valve cover right after i painted it, it was about a week later so it should have been fully cured. unfortunatly i woke up sick with the flu on saturday so i didn't really get much done on it, short of some more polishing on the intake manifold, halfshafting the VICS system (while i had the intake apart anyway) and ordering some of the little parts that i keep remembering that i need (such as a 3" filter adapter for the VAF since i won't be running a stock style air box). Felt even worse today so with any luck i can get the aspire moved into the garage and the motor mount mocked up by wed.