can i paint 16v rocker cover

[Paul16V]

I wanna get my rocker cover colour coded. Can you just use normal paint? and also can i laquer it?? not payin £80 for one from hill power, gotta change the gasket anyway.

 

[wongy008]

u can do it but you need heat proof paint

i bought mine from hill power as have a lot of people but i know tony from the club has done his body colour alfa romeo blue and hes had no problems with it

wongy

 

[Jas]

halfords do it, I bought some for mine at the weekend! £5 a can. Cant tell you if its any good or not yet though!

 

[Paul16V]

is it willy blue though

 

[pep 87]

YES & YES!!

 

[Anders]

Personally i wouldnt paint it as this is prone to cracking in time. I would and am, sending mine away to be anodisied. This is a chemical reaction that dyes the aluminium the correct colour whilst creating a protective hardened layer of material.

Pretty cheep too.

 

[Paul16V]

How much? I need my car though and cant wait! Anyone polished it?

 

[Anders]

Polishing it yourself is a viable option but it WILL take a shed load of time and patience, and ofcourse quite costly paste and buffers. Then there is the enternal question of do you lacquer it or leave it natural with buffs every week??

The choice my friend is yours...

Try http://www.alphaanodising.demon.co.uk/http://www.alphaanodising.demon.co.uk/ for more info.

 

[wongy008]

i got a hill power on for over a year now aint cracked yet

wongy

 

[AndyB_GTT]

can it be chromed?

 

[wongy008]

sure it can be chromed or polished its metal at end of day

think nickr is getting his chromed

wongy

 

[Anders]

Better to be bright anodised as this will be cheaper and probably a longer finish, same result though.

 

[Nick Read]

Mines chromed and it looks THE NUTS not to put too fine a point on it! Who wants to be buffing up their metal every five minutes, when you could have chrome?

 

[ak_uk]

HP painted mine and no problems 12 months later....