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Picture from yestersday morning



Building a race car is a lot of work...

argh, I would love to repaint my engine bay. The white is starting to look kinda bad... Nice bright red.

Ice Racing wrote:Picture from yestersday morning


http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q295 ... G_0037.jpg

Building a race car is a lot of work...

That is gonna look great! Be sure to post the finished bay when it all goes back in.

We did blue brake booster, fuel bracket,subframe,... it will all be done by friday afternoon. Keep posted.

PATDIESEL wrote:argh, I would love to repaint my engine bay. The white is starting to look kinda bad... Nice bright red.

But white is the best color to have on the engine bay.
Any leak is spotted on the spot

True, but it is also the easiest to get dirty and show scratches. Thus my engine bay looks well used. The paint is yellowing and will not come clean anymore, there are scratches from wrenches and engines and trannys coming out, spills that have gotten in cracks that I cannot reach to clean and all manner or other stuff that I'd like to get new looking one day.

Heres mine currently





sold the heads and cams. lol that pic was takin a month ago and that coolant was left in the cylinders like that..I don't acre i'm getting a new ze

Ouch, Thats gotta suck!Props to alantamx3 his engine bay is nice and is set as my desktop

Tunes67 wrote:I thought KLZE engines had flat top pistons?
Tunes67

Eric, they are flat in the pics.

John.. You must have never seen a true flat top piston.. those pistons have valve recesses. Hence my confusion.. I had read numerous times on here that the ZE pistons were flat top compared to dished.. I have seen both types of pistons from other engines and neither had valve recesses like those "Flat Top" ZE pistons. After a bit more research once seeing this thread.. I now know what folks here are calling flat top

Tunes67

Here's mine..

beautiful!

TREVO123 wrote:Ouch, Thats gotta suck!Props to alantamx3 his engine bay is nice and is set as my desktop

Yay!

Tunes67 wrote:John.. You must have never seen a true flat top piston.. those pistons have valve recesses. Hence my confusion.. I had read numerous times on here that the ZE pistons were flat top compared to dished.. I have seen both types of pistons from other engines and neither had valve recesses like those "Flat Top" ZE pistons. After a bit more research once seeing this thread.. I now know what folks here are calling flat top

Tunes67

Post pic of the "true flat top" because ive only seen dished and these.... unless the others where aftermarket.. those ARE flat top..

hgallegos915 wrote:

Tunes67 wrote:John.. You must have never seen a true flat top piston.. those pistons have valve recesses. Hence my confusion.. I had read numerous times on here that the ZE pistons were flat top compared to dished.. I have seen both types of pistons from other engines and neither had valve recesses like those "Flat Top" ZE pistons. After a bit more research once seeing this thread.. I now know what folks here are calling flat top

Tunes67

Post pic of the "true flat top" because ive only seen dished and these.... unless the others where aftermarket.. those ARE flat top..

This is what a true flat top piston looks like. There are alot of cars out there with these. I know Cavalier and Sunfire have them. I know because my brother has a Sunfire Gt and it has them.



the ZE ones are not completly flat like those. But ther ae refered to as flat if yo see how the DE has the dome in the middle