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Engine Painted and front wheel painted.

 We used a wire wheel and sandpaper to strip most of the paint off the engine then used Dupli-Color Engine primer, paint, and clear coat. We cut CD print sticky paper to make a ring to cover a small amount of white paint we sprayed on the engine before the black, after taking the sticky paper off, we have a white ring similar to what came on the engine from Rupp. This picture is before taking the paper off.

 We also made an intake manifold from some metal tubing and the mounting brackets the previous owner used.  We slid the adapters into a pipe we bent with a coating of JB weld as a sealer/cement.  Then we used body fill to help make it look like one piece instead of three, and painted it on the engine.

 

 We also painted the rusty and damaged front wheel using Krylon Rust Tough Zinc Rich primer and Enamel chrome paint. 

 We repaired a dent in the wheel, after trying several methods of getting the dent out, we found that a hammer and a large chisel worked best.  Needless to say, we scratched the dented area quite a bit, thus the (pre-sanding) body fill…

 

We chose the Rust Stuff products because we knew we were not going to be able to take the rust off completely with the tire on and we did not want to try to remove the tire due to its age and poor condition.

 

Just after painting:

And a Couple days later, the can recommends 2-3 days to fully dry so this is the fully dry result:

 

 

We are thinking of clear coating this for added protection…

We are happy with the results; of course we did not expect this to actually look like chrome so we were not disappointed in the regard.  The wheel looks more polished aluminum then chrome, which will work for our application.