befor and after pics, engine bay

[Joe-318i]

right, so while the engine has been apart, iv been cleaning bits up and sprayed a thew that were complety shot





promblem is i can't make my mind up on leaving the the hole of the rocker cover sliver or some bits in black, any thoughts, wich looks better cheers

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[ImysE30]

I'd sand down the raised bits, sort of polished look

[Joe-318i]

mean something a bit like this, but better

[ImysE30]

Yep, might not work so well with the silver though

[Joe-318i]

ill give it a go 2moz, and see what happens

[Alex]

how did you do the throttle body, i bet thats a pain in the arse

[Joe-318i]

just spent ages cleaning it, took a thew bits off, and gave it loads of coats, still got the other half to go yet

[M3Jim]

I like it with the black!

[Forsman]

Like this, I love it!

[MunichMotorsport]

I like it with the black!

plus 1

[Joe-318i]

Like this, I love it!

mmm that dose look nice
what paint did u use

[Joe-318i]

so yesterday it all went back togeather, so thought ill take a the pics

befor




and after







still a bit more work to do under here yet, but if the weathe is good at the weekend ill get round to it still cant make my mind up about the bmw bit being in black paint

[Alex]

looks good joe

[ImysE30]

Made a good improvement

[Joe-318i]

thanks alex and Imys gave it a good hoover 2day aswell

[Alex]

thanks alex and Imys gave it a good hoover 2day aswell

for one second i thought you meant the engine

[Joe-318i]

[Forsman]

Like this, I love it!

mmm that dose look nice
what paint did u use

That's not mine.
I found it in another thread here on page 1 at Photo Gallery.

[Joe-318i]

o right, looks i like it

[Alex]

what silver did you use, was it any specific colour ???

[Joe-318i]

mm, nothing special , only halfords high temp paint, all i could really find

[Forsman]

Yea, I tune in with Alex... Also want to know. ;)

Felt a have-to-do-need on this one, gave it a real lift, the whole bay!

[Alex]

thats what i will get then, looks almost the same colour as the engine bays in the e30 sales brochures so thats good enough for me

[Joe-318i]

o and i used a massiv botle of autoglym engine & machine cleaner

[Joe-318i]

thats what i will get then, looks almost the same colour as the engine bays in the e30 sales brochures so thats good enough for me

yer thats what i thought, when i started spraying, was quite a good match i think really, and hasn't really cost that much to

[Alex]

o and i used a massiv botle of autoglym engine & machine cleaner

thats something else i need to use, good stuff, all the detailers use it

[Alex]

[Joe-318i]

this is the stuff, but not in red
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... N%26um%3D1

[spook]

o and i used a massiv botle of autoglym engine & machine cleaner

Good man, ive nearly used two bottles already, buy 2 get third free from Halfrauds

[Alex]

will get some next week and get cracking, how much preperation did you do in terms of hours thats the bit i hate

[Joe-318i]

spook- yer i did the same, 3 for the price of 2, that autoglym wheel cleaner is good stuff to, works really well on bbs's

alex- mm i would say a thew hours, gave it a good coat of engine & machine cleaner, left it for a while, 15-20 mins, then came back to it with some wire wool and some fine wet and dry, did start to get fed up with it after a while, so just kept leaving it and comming back to it,

[Alex]

lol sounds like me although i spend 4 hours solid preping my IS front spoiler which is not like me

[Joe-318i]

wooo, thats a while, i probley would of got well fed up after an hour mind you it is nice to see the diffrence, the bit that i would say took the longest was cleaning the body work around the engine its self, getting it to all the gaps and that

[The_Diddler]

Looks nice under there now, i'd replace the washer bottle, freely available from the dealers, not too expensive either, will finish it off nicely

[Joe-318i]

Looks nice under there now, i'd replace the washer bottle, freely available from the dealers, not too expensive either, will finish it off nicely

thanks you , was thinking of that, did try and give it a good clean up, but wasn't making much diffrence, might get my brother to order me 1 up then if u can still pick them up from the dealers