Little Engine Bay Clean Up

[wilcooper]

Nice day, so removed engine cover and cleaned up the inlets and surrounds.

Engine cover is also primed ready for a nice colour tomorrow

First test:

Full job:

Engine cover during cleaning session (you might see the colour behind it )

 

[wilcooper]

And now sprayed:

 

[Toby]

Effort.

Pics of the cover on needed.

 

[wilcooper]

Yeah, just going to lacquer tomorrow and then should be ready to be put back on Thanks!

 

[wilcooper]

I was going to go for Renault's racing/liquid yellow but Halfords had f**k all close stocked in so I decided to go for Ford Electric/Monza blue which seemed very close to RB Just a gloss black on the back of the cover.

 

[wilcooper]

Here we go...

Close up on:

Far Away:

Side:

Let me know what you all think!

 

[jesus]

Looks entirely out of place on that car!

 

[Rubicon_]

It's a lighter shade of black...

 

[RichyMa]

Needed a darker colour I think mate, each to their own though

 

[MatGleds]

How on earth did you get your inlet manifold to look like that? I want mine to look like that!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Bit of a silly colour for a black car imo.

 

[MarcB]

Forget about the Red one but your car needs the black on it

Oh and IMO another good cheap mod to clean the bay up is a new coolant bottle.

 

[Stu_350z]

I like the blue mate...stands out nicely when the bonnet is up

 

[wilcooper]

Yeah, I think black would look nice obviously, but wanted something a little different and it looked good (to me) in photoshop Cheers

 

[Bluebeard]

I love standard cars with bat s**t engine bay's.

You just need some brightly coloured stuff in there now.

 

[wilcooper]

I love standard cars with bat s**t engine bay's.

You just need some brightly coloured stuff in there now.

Right on.

 

[Vicky.]

I like it, you just need to get some other stuff in there to match it .

 

[AlexRs182]

Where did you get the plastic rocker cover sprayed? Or from? I'm on about the red or black one.

 

[George@RTR_Parts]

Nice job on the inlets , as said new coolant bottle would freshen it up and spray the engine hoist/lifting bracket as its letting side down

 

[Edges]

If you had same blue on your calipers and diamonds it would go really well imo

 

[Mister_G]

I like it mate! However, as said above, how the hell did you get your inlets to look like that!

Guide needed IMO. *HINT*

 

[The Fatty]

I like it mate! However, as said above, how the hell did you get your inlets to look like that!

Guide needed IMO. *HINT*

this thread got woken up from an 8month sleep! lol. Anyway, if you only want to get them clean, an type of degreaser will help remove the dirt, and a wire brush will help make them shine a bit without polishing. However if you want them to looked polished / really good, you need to do a full polishing working from 80 grit paper all the way up to 2000 grit paper, and finally some metal polish. It a lot of work, but the results are worth it. I have included a picture from the thread I posted the other day about my engine bay clean-up for reference of the result you can see if you put a bit more effort into it:

 

[Mister_G]

Looks epic mate. Really tidy! Someone sprayed my inlets with black heat resistant paint. So looks better than standard metal...

When I get a bit of spare time I'll probably give this a go!