Rocker Cover Ideas

[Guest]

Just wondered whether anyone here has painted or polished their rocker covers to give their engine bays a bit of bling? I'm thinking about having mine polished but still can't decide. If anyone has any pics of their rocker cover / engine bay facelifts then please post them up for all to see...

[Gwynleym10]

In my opion i think they look best painted black, then the high ridges and "bmw" polished. Andy 335touring has it like this and looks good.

Think he used "dimple" style black paint. pretty sure Harley Davidson stores sell it.

[Gwynleym10]

have a look at his website
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/a.law47/33 ... e%202.html
There are some pictures at the bottom of the second page

[Widge]

Any one know where I can get "crackle black". I wanna do my rocker cover to match the BBTB I got off Cabrio327.

[Gwynleym10]

ah crackle black, thats what i was talking about... think you can get it from harley davidson shops

[Widge]

I bet it's $$$$$$$$$$4 from Harley

[Gwynleym10]

not sure but think its way under Ԛ£20..

[E30BeemerLad]

sure i've seen cans of this stuff in halfords before, if not B&Q. suppose you need a paint that is happy with a bit of heat too. Can't knock the old Hammerite in my opinion, the smooth stuff though.

I'm on with exactly the same plans at the moment Daz, picked up a cam cover from Widge the other night. Will give me something to do at the weekend

[Widge]

Yep well count your self lucky, I've got to count limpets on a deserted beach in Scotland this weekend

[E30BeemerLad]

Get you, lucky sod eh

Well maybe i'll get round to doing my cambelt

[Turbo-Brown]

I've done mine grey with polished lettering

[Andy335Touring]

I used VHT wrinkle paint from the following link,but the black is out of stock. They have red in stock if you fancy it ?

https://www.usautomotive.co.uk/scripts/ ... ategory=55

Just try googling it,some one else will have it in stock.

Demlot(Andrew) has also used the same paint on his car.

[Widge]

LAD, DO THE BLOODY CAMBELT
You're driving a time bomb, it's either do it or you'll end up changing the engine

Cheers Andy, I'm not gonna do it for a month, so I might just wait till it's in stock if you guys say it's good.

[johno]

im in the prosses of powder blasting 2 covers then painting black will get pictures as soon as there complete

[Martinaston]

Anyone seen the chrome paint in b&q for that real bling look

[Widge]

IMO

[E30BeemerLad]

TurboBrown - that's exactly the finish i'm going for, clean original lines.

[E30BeemerLad]

In fact I may have an engine bay detailling weekend, oh and the cambelt Widge

[MONSPORT42]

Just had mine powder coated in high gloss Diamond Swartz to match the car. Gonna do the inlet manifold when I can find a week when I don't need the car!

[smithy318i]

Okay, I got the paint.
(Ԛ£4.98 for 400ml)

But does the cover need to be clean, or do i just remove the surface crap?

[Andy335Touring]

Yep,nice and clean,i used some carb/brake cleaner when i did mine

[smithy318i]

Im doing mine NOW

(kitchen floor)

[Adammcf]

Ive sprayed mine in high temp black paint but its a really dull matt finish. Im tempted in spraying over it with Hammerite Gloss paint but I dont want it to crack!

[Donnie]

[smithy318i]

BEFORE...

AFTER...

[Andy335Touring]

LOL ! I painted mine on the kitchen floor over the Christmas holidays,what a fookin' mess that made !!!!!! Black over spray went every where,even in side the cuboards !

[Andy325i]

I cleaned mine a lot then did 3 layers of etch primer, then 2 or 3 layers of black hi temp, followed by a coat of laquer, though this needed to be high temp too really

May powder coat if I do another

Andy

[craigieeb]

so is it better to polish the lettering before the paint/powder coating?

or after?

[Turbo-Brown]

I polished the lettering etc. on mine before spraying, then there was only a little bit of work with T-Cut to get through the paint and down to the polished bits

[aus325]

I used 'VHT Wrinkle Plus' on mine, came up very well. Read the back of the can carefully though. 'Do not apply at temperatures below 21degrees C !!'
Also, don't go overboard when applying it, takes FOREVER to fully cure.
I scraped 90% off the ribs when it was still fairly tacky, that made it a lot easier to polish up with wet&dry paper when it was fully hardened.

[smithy318i]

The heating is on full whack and it's resting on a radiator now. 40 mins into the last stage.

still no wrinkes

2 more hours... disapionting wrinkles (nowt like the picture on the can)

But it still looks good.

[rickk]

I'd really like mine to be color-coded with the exterior paint, and the raised parts polished.

Bodged this together one day, 'priming' it with black hi-temp paint and covering with regular spray paint. Looked really really sweet but on a test run (on the kitchen furnace, don't tell the missus ) the regular paint seemed to just dissapear (causing quite a lot of smoke too btw ).

Might have another go at it using hi-temp clearcoat but don't think it will work.

Anyone any ideas how to get this done properly?

- Rick :

[Dominitry]

Here's my rocker cover that Richy done

[Dan318-is]

im doing mine the same as above except the bmw logo ig going to be colour coded to match the mtec logo eg the B will be light blue the M will be dark blue and the W will be red

wat du think?

[Jhonno]

will looks a bit duploish (kids coloured toy block things for those who dont know)