Today's efforts - Engine tidy up

[-J-]

As its boiling out (29 Degrees here) it seemed ideal to sort out a job I have been meaning to do for ages.

Before:

After:

Cleaned it up and a few coats of High Temp metallic grey followed by a couple of coats of High Temp lacquer.

Finish is not the best, but it certainly looks better than it did pre paint!

And a few random photos after a rinse down, the Auto Finess Tough Coat on the car makes it so easy just to rinse down.

 

[Scott™]

Much better. Nice car as well.

 

[Millerin]

looks great J

 

[-J-]

Thanks guys

 

[EdV6220]

Silver Cups rock, nice work on the engine bay too

 

[-J-]

Thanks, Iceberg does scrub up well

 

[Yosemite Sam]

I love your car so much.

 

[-J-]

I love your car so much.

Cheers Dan, it's not as clean close up as it looks in the photos, plenty of time and money required until I am happy.

Think next up is a new bonnet (possibly a glass fibre one with aero catches) to get rid of the dents, then alloy refurb in a nice bright silver and sort a few bodywork bits out here and there.

 

[Danith]

Much love for the Silver Cups. Your wheels look huge for some reason! How come your number plate spacing is so close, is that intentional?

 

[-J-]

Much love for the Silver Cups. Your wheels look huge for some reason! How come your number plate spacing is so close, is that intentional?

The cars quite low, maybe why the wheels look big?

The number plate was a 'fat finger' mistake when ordering them lol I forgot the space in the middle.

 

[Leeshez]

Very nice .

 

[Russ_16v]

Looks much better!!

 

[Marky_]

Brilliant. Much improved!

 

[andywa]

Not bad. What did you use on the bay to clean it?

 

[-J-]

Thanks all, hoping the paint smell goes soon as its coming through the Air con lol

 

[Flat Eric]

Looks good i like silver cups. Engine bay looks tidy too.

And I bet the paint smell through air con is annoying. I get the smell of smoke in mine if someone in car in front is smoking.

 

[Christopher]

Lovely.

 

[-J-]

Paint smell seems to be dropping off thankfully.

Pity I can't picture it properly, I hadn't realised but the flake in the paint is awesome on the cam cover.