E30 Zone

Seeing as it was a nice sunny day, Thought Id do some work on the motor...

Been busy in the garden working on the rocker cover..

Cleaned and grinded down the rocker, got it ready for spraying

Kept it nice and simple with the matt black finish and silver stripes

This is how its come out. comments welcome!!

PS - Going to start on the inlet manifold this week too...will keep you guys posted

Looks good, except the pics make the silver look yellowish....i'm sure that's just the pics though!

Wonder how a gloss finish would make it look???

Looks well! it puts me in the notion to spend an afternoon sprayin my own!

cheers guys. . . yeah i was thinking about the gloss finish my self but i couldnt get hold of that finish. . . all the shops i went to had matt black finish or just normal black.

but im happy with it. . . going to leave it like that for now, ut mite change afew things in the future!

very nice sweet looking and will look clean when put back on car..

im doing a rocker for duffs at present when u donw ur's did u grind it with a dremal or did u black sand th estrips.

When i donw my M20 rocker i done it by block sanding the strips

i was just about to ask how the silver stripes were done too

stuartgallafant wrote:i was just about to ask how the silver stripes were done too

when i done mine i block sanded the rocker strips but on the M42 rocker the strips come up close to the breather pipe, i guess careful block sanding then, once i finish duffs off this week were stick it ont he motor before he comes back

Well that decides it... I will be spraying my cover not polishing it... that looks the mutts.

Be interested to see how the intake comes out as I was thinking of doing mine too.

Got one i'm cleaning up ready to paint, want to do the same as that but think i'm going to be using a crinkle finish.

ye i used my mates angle grinder it had that bit on the end (round wire brush type thing) but yeh that jus grinded all the crap off the cover. . . . had loads of shit on there.

when doing it had to do it with no pressure, the wire brush bit was so aggressive that i could see little metal grains coming off. once i got the hang of it was all good.

the stripes aint as shiny as i thought they would be. . . but im happy with the finish. was thinking of doin the silver bits the same purply colour as my motor. . . .in two minds.

but im loving the look of it right now. cant wait til the engine is in the car and finished!!!!

looks good ,what paint did you use on it ,and where you get it from /price ?

crinkle paint is the best!!

Crinkle paint looks the nuts.

My S50 plenum needs re-doing so I'm thinking about doing the whole lot in red crinkle with polished raised detail.

Mmmmm red crinkle.

Jai

hmmm crinkle hey??? wel i didnt know wich paint to get. . . its just high temperature paint in black. . . .

i was afer the gloss finish but cudnt find the paint any where.

not to sure of the place i bought it cnt remember. . . .but i paid £5-6 quid for it. cant complain!!!

david t from the zone painted his with crinkle paint and it looks fantastic, will get around to doing mine but got to much other stuff to do first