Proton Persona 1.6L engine bay beautification

After several attempts to "encourage/convince" my friend to beautify his Persona engine bay, he finally agreed and picked blue as ...

After several attempts to "encourage/convince" my friend to beautify his Persona engine bay, he finally agreed and picked blue as his engine bay colour theme. For this round, Gox7 Mugen blue wrinkle spray paint is still our choice but a better temperature base paint was chosen. My friend had chosen the ultra high temp as the base paint instead of the high temp base paint I used previously. Another reason of choosing the ultra high temp paint due to he wanted to paint his 4-2-1 exhaust extractor as well. Besides that, he got himself a full set Persona silicone hoses to replace his radiator and some other vacuum hoses. His engine bay now looks even better with all these blue hoses. 

The work started with the engine valve cover removed. Pity him as he was trying to degrease and clean up his engine valve cover under the hot sun and due to that, I was there to provide support but not helping. Anyway, you shouldn't have 2 person doing the same thing at the same time.  This is not efficient. 

After several degreasing and rinsing the engine valve cover, it was time for us to tape all the holes and areas which were not needed to be painted. 

His Campro engine seem in pretty darn good condition.

Painting process began. After several coats, I left it to my friend to dry the paint with a blower to get the wrinkle effect. This process was very important whereby if the coat too thin, you will not able to get the effect but if the coat too thick, you will not able to get an even wrinkle effect. So in short, do spray the layer evenly. Spray 3 coats and 3-5 minutes wait between coats.

Painting done and let's admire the wrinkle effect.

4-2-1 exhaust extractor done painted as well. Just using the ultra high temperature paint without the wrinkle paint though. 

And here was the final result after we had spent more than 5 hours at my mechanic shop.