Red Paint + Shiny bits = Sexy

[LegoHead]

One tin of hammerite smooth and still half full. Done front calipers and fuel rail guard, will be doing top of plenum tonight, around the lettering bit.

Finished polishing the plenum today, what ya think?

 

[Norris_309]

Looks spot on mate.. good work!
How long is that all taking?

 

[LegoHead]

I guess around 15 hours or more. I was messing with different techniques :- dremmel, halfords wet/dry, cheapo pound shop wet/dry, wire brush on drill and finally linishing kit and polishing mops. The latter appears to be the easiest and most effective method.

 

[Middo]

looks good mate, worth the hard work

 

[patty]

good effort!!

 

[pecan]

Too much time on your hands if you ask me.

 

[Maz]

Looking good Dave

 

[Pistol Pete]

Looking great dave, ive just ordered some polishing mops/kit. Is it easy to take the top off the engine to polish??

 

[Giles]

Looks good

 

[Adam]

looking mintt

 

[LegoHead]

Looking great dave, ive just ordered some polishing mops/kit. Is it easy to take the top off the engine to polish??

dunno, dont think so, havent done it yet.

 

[LegoHead]

Too much time on your hands if you ask me.

Yeh! Well i graduated from uni (2.1 ) and only work weekends, but jobhunting too.

 

[Alan]

Spot on matey!!

 

[makavelli]

Looking great dave, ive just ordered some polishing mops/kit. Is it easy to take the top off the engine to polish??

its a 10minute job matey, just unplug and unclip everything attatched and unscrew approx 10 10mm bolts iirc

ive got it down to 5mins at the mo cos i keep swapping my 2 over when i repaint lol

 

[Pistol Pete]

cheers mate

 

[dannyboy172]

Looks good matey, nice to see something different

 

[GarethM]

nice fella like it

 

[LegoHead]

Update! Done 3 coats so far, i think it needs another 2.

 

[dannyboy172]

Yep deffo need more coats lol

Looks good tho, what paint are you using?

 

[LegoHead]

Yep deffo need more coats lol

Looks good tho, what paint are you using?

hammerite smooth. Works well on calipers and will find out soon enough, if it is any good for a very hot plenum.

 

[dannyboy172]

Should be fine matey. I found the red hammerite smooth really thin when i did the missuses calipers on her gti, compared to the other colours anyway.

 

[Ryan]

Looks good mate!

 

[R20 CWH]

quite like the red theme there.

Rear calipers being done also?....

what about red 2.0 16v badges - tasty

 

[LegoHead]

quite like the red theme there.

Rear calipers being done also?....

what about red 2.0 16v badges - tasty

I have red viper trumpet on lower grill at the moment, but think its ott, and planning on polishing and probably putting laquer over it. Not sure about 2.0 badges yet....

 

[kully]

does look the bizz there m8