Brought my engine bay into life with a bit of colour

[Chris.C]

Finally got round to doing this, the engine bay looked realy dull and boring before and just needed to broought back to life some how.

Heres how it was 3 weeks ago

and approx 20 mins after it looking like that...

2 weeks ago i had made a little progress....

Not long after that pic i got it fitted, along with the sprayed throttle body and fuel rail gaurd, also gave the cam cover a good clean up too as it was filthy, you could see i had already started in the pic with no inlet on.
(please excuse the poor light was late and had to use flash)

Finally after 3 weeks of it being apart, i managed to finish the cover and got it all back together and got some pics at weekend....

Overall im very chuffed with the turn out, considering the cold weather.... I thought the laquer was going to be a pain in the arse and not set properly.
I just used black VHT paint for the inlet and fuel rail gaurd and silver VHT paint for the throttle body, but the paint shop i got it from did a VHT clear coat too so thought id get some of that and im glad i did because the black went very matt a bit more matt than i was hoping for, i wanted more of a satin black look but it turned out very nice doing it like this, i also used the VHT clear cote on the throttle body which now looks new
but i had to leave the renault sport bit with the polished alloy look, couldnt resist had seen it on a few other peoples cars and really liked it so i did that before i applied the VHT clear coat so it will stay like that

Just goto think what to do induction kit wise now, im tempted with a diy kit, with black silicone hoses and alloy pipe also in black to bring a filter down in front of the battery, or just go for the ktec kit, and be lazy but not sure i can justify the extra £70 odd quid lol

Opinions welcome

Chris

 

[Lawro]

Looks much better mate!

 

[Chileno]

Much better, big improvement!

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

Good job!

You need some polished top mount covers and a battery cover to finish it off

 

[2Damnsly Andy]

Looks proper tidy fella, nice job.

 

[Christopher.]

Looks very clean. Great job

 

[danward]

Good work dude like it a lot.

 

[Silent_Scone]

You've done a good job on that

 

[t90_lle]

looks good bud

 

[Kid A]

Looks good Chris. I need to pop over and have a look at it one weekend.

 

[Chris.C]

Thanks guys really appreciate the comments

I think it's surprising how much of a big difference it makes adding a bit of colour like that,
and for how easy (although a little time consuming depending on what your doing) and cheap it is, it's well worth it.

Good job!

You need some polished top mount covers and a battery cover to finish it off

Thanks dan,
love the selling technique there lol
theyre not my kind of thing that sort of bling haha. But I do need a couple of bits from you actually
so there will be a pm coming your way soon

 

[Chris.C]

Looks good Chris. I need to pop over and have a look at it one weekend.

Yer by all means feel free to pop by mate,
I'm about most weekends, just give a heads if a few days before so I can make sure ill be around.
Just drop a text or something dude....

oh yee just thought forgot to reply to you yesterday haha.

Maybe it'll make you buy another one, whether it be a trophy or ff 182

 

[Impey]

Good job!

You need some polished top mount covers and a battery cover to finish it off

Can you get top mount covers these days.

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

Can you get top mount covers these days.

Yes i sell them haha!

:http://www.cliosport.net/forum/show...SOLID-BILLET-ALUMINIUM*-%A325-POSTED-PER-PAIR

 

[VIICarCare]

Million times better, looks great

 

[Mr Plums]

That looks mint mate, i would like this doing to mine

 

[Poopensharten]

Very smart! So simple aswell!

 

[baize]

wow that looks lovely! black and blue suits a treat!

 

[Bob0907]

Looks great. This is what I was planning to do, except paint the cover orange. What paint did you use for the inlet? High temp?

 

[Chris.C]

That looks mint mate, i would like this doing to mine

its very easy mate, if you have the patience have a go yourself pal.
plus when you stand back and look at it after youve done it, its so much better than when somone else has done it for you if you get me

Very smart! So simple aswell!

It is very simple mate, that was the best part... ok it took a fair while
i mean its the same with anything like this, if you put in the time for preperation you reap the benifits with the finished product.
i must admit i did spend a long time prepping the the parts making sure they were clean etc, all i used was a brillo pad too lol

Looks great. This is what I was planning to do, except paint the cover orange. What paint did you use for the inlet? High temp?

I used 3 different tins, they were an orange can, the make was Autotek professional VHT, it was VHT black for the inlet and fuel rail gaurd, and VHT silver-grey for the throttle body. Then i used the VHT clear over the inlet, throttle body and fuel rail gaurd. The guy in the body shop said that with the silver or any colour, over time and with enough heat the silver will just turn black so will need the clear coat to prevent that. Now i dont know if this was just to get me to buy the clear coat or not, because i dont think the throttlebody will heat up enough for it to change colour at all. But id have bought it anyway and im glad i did because the finish of the black was so much nicer with the clear coat
Then for the renault sport, i just used a orbital sander with a grade of 600 or 800 i cant remember, and then just went over lightly with the 1000 gritt and brillo pad so it still had that brushed ally look.

Then when you spray the inlet once its dried before i applied the clear coat i just went over very carefully with a small block of wood and the 1000gritt again to take the paint off the renault sport bit and then sprayed with clear coat

hope that helps for when you do yours

 

[Chris.C]

For anyone interested heres a link to what ive used, its not too badly priced

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004ZJIP86/?tag=cliospnet01-21

think its a similar price on ebay, ive still got a good half a tin left on the silver, but used 3/4s of the tin on the black and nearly all the clear coat

 

[Leeshez]

Far better.

 

[Bob0907]

I used 3 different tins, they were an orange can, the make was Autotek professional VHT, it was VHT black for the inlet and fuel rail gaurd, and VHT silver-grey for the throttle body. Then i used the VHT clear over the inlet, throttle body and fuel rail gaurd. The guy in the body shop said that with the silver or any colour, over time and with enough heat the silver will just turn black so will need the clear coat to prevent that. Now i dont know if this was just to get me to buy the clear coat or not, because i dont think the throttlebody will heat up enough for it to change colour at all. But id have bought it anyway and im glad i did because the finish of the black was so much nicer with the clear coat
Then for the renault sport, i just used a orbital sander with a grade of 600 or 800 i cant remember, and then just went over lightly with the 1000 gritt and brillo pad so it still had that brushed ally look.

Then when you spray the inlet once its dried before i applied the clear coat i just went over very carefully with a small block of wood and the 1000gritt again to take the paint off the renault sport bit and then sprayed with clear coat

hope that helps for when you do yours

Thanks mate. Ill have to get this done whin I get some spare time!

 

[Cr33do]

That is quite an improvement! Looks like you have made a good job of that