Might put mine on for a laugh....
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**show us Your Engine Bay**
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Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
Put it up Jared.
To be honest it didn't exactly cost a fortune to get mine looking like that.
Fifty knicker for the engine cover to be sprayed, about a score for the battery cover and a few quid for some rattle cans.
To be honest it didn't exactly cost a fortune to get mine looking like that.
Fifty knicker for the engine cover to be sprayed, about a score for the battery cover and a few quid for some rattle cans.
Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
Heres non sport for a wee laugh
Nothing compared to you sports!
Custom made battery cover and sparyed parts.
Looks brilliant mate.
Need to do something to it before I put a picture up, my Bay looks foul at the moment.
Cub.
ClioSport Moderator
I really need to sort my engine bay out. Going to do it when the engine is out for the rebuild. Love yours RDR.
Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
For silver lettering just spray it all then sand the letters back to silver with sanding block (that's what I did).
To do the letters a different colour is a bit more complicated. Apparently you spray the letters first and give it a good coat of lacquer. Then spray the whole cover and before coating it in all in lacquer you use some paint stripper lightly rubbed on the letters to reveal the coloured paint. Then lacquer the whole thing.
I think that's how it was explained to me lol
Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
photobucket has probably made the photos look shocking!
Looks awesome Bradders.
Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
Cheers Cub!
Autocrash Chris is the man with the skills when it comes to tidying up the bay.
Sunglasses_Ron
ClioSport Admin
No polishing needed. I just used finer sandpaper at the end to give it a nice finish.
I know what you mean about getting it perfect lol I was only going to get the engine cover fine initially but it just sort of snow balked from there.
I must admit though, I quite enjoy spending a bit of time at the weekend doing bits and pieces.
BG FF 182
Jekyll
ClioSport Club Member
Couple of Chris's (one in a million) we did last year.
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
Tel you lot something, polishing the metal parts to look like chrome is a pitta. Spent most of today doing a few boost pipes and an engine mount....
** pics to follow later on *
** pics to follow later on *
BG FF 182
My inlet took me 8 & a half hours lol never again! Worth it though!
Renault Clio 182
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
Sand them smooth, and use a polishing kit ( I got the halfords hard metal kit ) worded a treat.
Would hate to think what it's
like hand polishing lol
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
Yeah worth it, made my bay look more than just a dirty diesel now lol. Just the engine cover to sort out and I'm done
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
f4r's look better without covers. MAN spec shows everything itbs hehehe
BG FF 182
Lol you'd never do it by hand, like I said it took me 8 hours with machines.
Still could do more too!
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
do most of it by drill or grinder, then hand sand it to make it a good finish. after all that work through the polishing wheels and compounds to make it shiney
i started off with 120-240-320-400-600-800- and finishede on 1000 wet and dry. could of got it to look better but IMO the 1000grit sanding marks are nice when polished
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
i got a kit from halfords , something like £16 without the trade card. did the job.
hard metal polishing kit. the do a soft but it comes with less stuff.
hard polishing wheel with black hard cutting compound
medium polishing wheel ( wool rag type thing ) WITH RED/PINK polishing compund
and light finishing wheel ( wool rag type thing ) with blue finishing compound.
there are better kits out there but I CBA to wait lol
hard metal polishing kit. the do a soft but it comes with less stuff.
hard polishing wheel with black hard cutting compound
medium polishing wheel ( wool rag type thing ) WITH RED/PINK polishing compund
and light finishing wheel ( wool rag type thing ) with blue finishing compound.
there are better kits out there but I CBA to wait lol
Dr HMS Derv Destroyer
ClioSport Club Member
MK1DTi/vivaro/corsa
it does, will upload a pic soon. well the part i did. engine bay currently looks like a bomb went off lol
