04-25-2020, 07:25 PM
A previous owner of my car polished the cam cover and injector rail cover, which I like, but just seemed to be missing...something. After a bit of research, I found a company in Canada by the name of Garage9 that sells raised letter fillers for the "Porsche" logo on the injector rail cover (see https://garage9.com/collections/944/prod...ring-78-96).
Decided to go with black lettering - here's a quick pictorial of the install process and final result!
Here's my engine bay when I started - as I mentioned, I like the polished look - think a previous owner MAY of tried to "paint" the lettering, or that may just be accumulated dirt/grime in the letters - hard to tell. ;-)
Engine bay before:
Removal of the injector rail cover on top is 4 hex head bolts, 2 on intake side, and 2 around the "Variocam" plaque on opposite side. Found out during removal I'm missing one of the bolts on the intake side, will need to find the part number and get one next time I'm ordering something else. :-) Here's the intake side of the motor with cover removed. Previous owner also added a permanent fuel pressure gauge on the motor.
Once I had the cover removed, I moved it to an easier place to work on it. Here's the cover before any cleaning:
I spent about 30 minutes with simple green cleaner, shop towels, and a toothbrush to clean out lettering (mainly to ensure good adhesion of new lettering fillers) followed by another cleaning using isopropyl alcohol (per instructions) - here's the result after that cleaning:
I test fitted the lettering, got a heat gun (per instructions to mildly heat lettering prior to application to activate adhesive), and was ready to begin (new filler lettering is upside down in this pic, you're seeing the underside of it) :
Once completed, here's what it looks like off the car:
...and the final result in the engine bay :
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it - adds a bit more "bling" to the engine. No real purpose other than looks, but seems to serve that purpose (the looks) to me!
Decided to go with black lettering - here's a quick pictorial of the install process and final result!
Here's my engine bay when I started - as I mentioned, I like the polished look - think a previous owner MAY of tried to "paint" the lettering, or that may just be accumulated dirt/grime in the letters - hard to tell. ;-)
Engine bay before:
Removal of the injector rail cover on top is 4 hex head bolts, 2 on intake side, and 2 around the "Variocam" plaque on opposite side. Found out during removal I'm missing one of the bolts on the intake side, will need to find the part number and get one next time I'm ordering something else. :-) Here's the intake side of the motor with cover removed. Previous owner also added a permanent fuel pressure gauge on the motor.
Once I had the cover removed, I moved it to an easier place to work on it. Here's the cover before any cleaning:
I spent about 30 minutes with simple green cleaner, shop towels, and a toothbrush to clean out lettering (mainly to ensure good adhesion of new lettering fillers) followed by another cleaning using isopropyl alcohol (per instructions) - here's the result after that cleaning:
I test fitted the lettering, got a heat gun (per instructions to mildly heat lettering prior to application to activate adhesive), and was ready to begin (new filler lettering is upside down in this pic, you're seeing the underside of it) :
Once completed, here's what it looks like off the car:
...and the final result in the engine bay :
Overall, I'm pretty happy with it - adds a bit more "bling" to the engine. No real purpose other than looks, but seems to serve that purpose (the looks) to me!
