Instead of the aluminum colored paint you could use Krylon "Smoke Grey" in a spray can. It is in Home Depot and I am sure many other stores. It is about as close a match as you will find. Just sand and feather the edges and you will never notice the repair. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "austinbrumley" <austinbrumley@xxxx> wrote: > I have a quick question. When i bought my car off of Ebay it showed > up with chipping epoxy on the rear brace under the engine. I had to > pull the motor from the car anyway so i decided to fix that while the > motor was out. Here's what i did, I took a prpane torch & heated the > affected epoxy and scraped it off. After that i sanded it to clean > bare metal then painted it with a rust preventing primer. After that > i put on a coat of aluminum colered engine paint. It looks great do > you think it is a sufficent fix for now? To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/