Official: "What did you do to your car today?" Thread
 

I painted my faded side mirrors, door handles and some other miscellaneous things. I took my valve cover off to see that my head has been very well taken care of.

Started painting my valve cover and ran out of daylight. Tomorrow I'll show you guys the finished product, and I will be putting a new valve cover gasket on along with doing a little valve adjustment.

So yeah. These are always decent threads on car forums. :)

dove it to the grocery store where I got honey nut cheerios and three boxes of jell-o for 6 bucks!!!

Thats a damn steal. Smart shopping.

umm, i drove...

Left it in the garage since I worked from home. I did however order a replacement intake from the 350Z that will be installed tomorrow.

sigh....

I'm waiting for the eBay vendor to send me the right MAF adapter so I can start on my custom CAI....they sent me the wrong size, think it's for a V6 instead of the 8.

Aftermarket or stock? I bet a CAI on that thing would sound pretty nice.

Heres my valve cover I'm working on, not quite finished.

Nice work. What kind of paint are you using? Does it have a glossy finish like you used an exterior car paint or is are you just using spray paint for more of a matte finish?

Its duplicolor high temp engine paint, in semi gloss, the pics ****ty, but it looks good. I did it to my old one too always looks nice and clean. I'm not to big on the glossy paint, although on the right car it can look great, like your vette. But for my 20 yearold bimmer she only gets semi. :lol:

On the outside I used SEM trim paint in i think semi gloss. SEM stuff is so good. damn can is like 10 dollars. Luckily I got it when I bought the car.

Thanks for the compliment.

Yeah, the picture is rather small and blurry...but it definitely looks good to me. I can't knock anyone's work, I was too scared to paint mine as I wanted it absolutely flawless for all the car shows it was in the past year. I was really pissed off when I got one of the pieces with scuff marks and scratches all over it. They were custom ordered and painted too, so it was nearly 5 weeks until I recieved the replacement. :mad:

Congrats for having the balls to do it yourself though, I was dumb enough to shell out quite a bit of cash to have mine professionally painted. :(

I drove it to School, then i drove it home.
Now it sits outside....

:bleh: :bleh:

Changed my oil. Cost me $15.00. Dealership gets $45 and I don't trust any "quickie lube" places because it's a cartridge filter and you have to remove a skid plate...

Came home from work last night, cleaned out the easy garbage (bags, receipts, water bottles...etc) drove to work this morning and now it sits in the parking lot being *****ted on due to the effn CDN Geese. :cry:

Going to show my car some love this weekend... vacuum and a quick dusting of the interior.

I drove it to work and parked it in the company's parking lot.

Maybe I'll start it up and drive it home tonight.

I done think this thread is going as planned. Not enough people here actually do things to their cars. :lol:

my post disappeared from this thread... pretty disappointing.

Oh my bad... i farted in it today. :bleh:

But yes... i dont think enough people do actual car work so i guess this thread went a little awol. :heart:

got a new head unit and some speakers, polished the bonnet

I work on cars all day long, so I looked at mine and said "Hell no". :runaway:

The Lightning stayed in the garage. The wife drove the Porsche to work. I installed EBC pads on all four corners of my Cobra.

Still waiting on my MAF adapter, as I stare at the brand new cone filter in my cargo area....

I've got an 06 G35 Sedan 6MT. Has the same engine the 350 did, but the intake on the G has a baffle to cut down on noise. Picked up a replacement from Stillen that's pretty much just a piece of hollow plastic. :lol:

Edit: maybe I should put something in that tube that sounds like a turbo spooling up, so that more civics will race me. :P

I want to put the stillen gen 2 exhaust on it, but I don't think that's gonna fly with the wife right about now. Hell I want to put that stage three charger on it too while I'm dreaming. :lol:

Nice job on that valve cover btw.

That's rice!! :lol: :D

I got the Vette out today finally, first time I've driven it in a month. Felt great, and she was running mean as hell with this nice cold air. Why is it that everybody on a sports bike wants to race me on the freeway? :lol:

Tomorrow is the Meguiars sponsored detail event, should be fun.

I washed my windows today :cool:

I need a wax job before the real winter starts....but I don't have time to do it myself...

Because they know the average Corvette owner will take the bait and get owned :lol:.

Put gas in it for $1.89/gallon. Tomorrow I'll change the oil.

took my car 40 miles to school
went to subway after my second class, then to a friends house to eat.
went back to school
drove 40 miles home
went to girlfriends house

some lady in a jag (on a phone) hit my mirror with her mirror, i honked and wanted her info, she sped off and i lost her in traffic. didnt get her plates, too many people around.

i polished mine on my old car. took me forever to sand it back and polish it up nice and shiny, and then it was impossible to keep clean. never doing that again

Never had a problem keeping mine clean. They get dusty now and again, but a quick wipe down with your choice of quick wax and they are good for another month or so. It might depend entirely upon the paint used and the methods used to paint it too maybe. Mine is actually painted with the same paint code and materials as my exterior paint.

I kicked it on the way out to get the mail :bleh: