Ya, I had them powder coated. The color is hyper black. They're a bit lighter than the original triple black.
Any issues with heat on those vinyl stripes inside the engine bay? I have have some left over Ford Striping from my spoiler swap...Had some extra vinyl from my stripe kit as I didn't wrap the wing. Continued the stripes up into the engine bay today. Perfect amount of vinyl for the strut brace and rad cover. Like it was meant to be. Rad cover is pretty hard to see unless the angle is right
Put in the hood strut kit too from redline. I think I'm gonna paint the brackets later to match the car. Have a rattle can of grabber blue touch up paint that is damn near perfect. But that's it for the day.
Next on the list is the shelby coolant tank, and a little engine bay dressup. All in good time.
Not yet but I've only been on an hour long cruise since I put em on. Time will tell what the heat from the engine bay does. I don't expect anything negative though for a good while
I'm more interested in the heat shield on the garage door.. do you think it actually works? All of my heat comes from the cars engine bay after pulling it in from a grocery run or something. I've been thinking about putting in a split ac unit.
The entire garage is insulated and I insulated the garage door as well. It wasn’t a double layer insulated door to start. I put the heat shield on top of it as well because of a video I saw online that measured the temp of the door with and without it when the sun was in direct contact and seemed to cut back on the heat. I’m in St Louis so it gets really cold in the winter and really hot in the summer and I put in a Lennox mini split unit also and I wanted to keep it from having to overwork. Probably overkill but I was bored so I did it
Might want to have your alternator checked.
Not a chance. This car has zero other indications and runs great. I know the electrical system on this car is most certainly not the same as the past, but to me, an electrical problem starts with less than 12V and some other symptom (a light(s), goofy activity, etc). I remain of the opinion you had no problem.
I put in an antigravity battery to save weight and about two days after putting it in, dead. Charged it back up after I had to wait for the delivery of the charger since is needs a special charger, and I was about to check the whole system to see what the drain was but I also turned off the radio, turned the auto headlight switch off and turned off the automatic updates in the infotainment. Since then, I haven’t had any issues and the car has sat for 2 weeks at a time. No charge needed. Voltage sits around low 14s to high 12s. I doubt the radio or light switch being turned off does anything. Not sure about the auto updates though. The car is never completely off as I hear the noises the car makes if I’m out in the garage just messing around.
