What colour to spray my new rocker cover??

[s15Irl]

Looking for some advice for what colour to have my rocker cover sprayed???
Was thinking colour coded brilliant blue or candy red?
Any ideas appreciated!

 

[mattyb]

i did mine white and then splashed loads of different colours on it ill get a pic to show you.

 

[s15Irl]

Thanks! sound cool.. Kinda toying with the Hks graphics idea!

 

[s15Irl]

Woah sorry about the huge picture!

 

[Adam L]

Mine was a kind of flek blue

I got bored of that as I've always wanted to do black, but I've only got pretty awful pictures of the new colour, plus I ground the letters off the rocker cover...

 

[s15Irl]

Ah nice! I love the blue one! Nice strut brace too by the way! do you have a paint code for the blue flec?

 

[Adam L]

Sorry, no. I bought it already painted from Martin at Little Knocks in Ruislip.

 

[mckenzie]

ooo thats nice mate

 

[mattyb]

heres mine,

 

[JaseYpk]

matty - that looks awesome! i wanna do mine now hahaha.
whats the stock head gasket made of? and is it likely to need replacing after removing the cover?

adam - how did you grind the letters off the cover? bet that was a nightmare!

 

[s15Irl]

heres mine,

Ah thats deadly! :thumbs: Very unique I would imagine!! Never seen anything like that before!
I dunno if it would, I didn't think of that! I bought another one so at least I wont have to take my current one off until the new ones all shiny and ready to go on!

 

[JaseYpk]

http://www.camskill.co.uk/m20b342s1...upe_Turbo_S14_SR20DET_06_94_to_09_01_UK/RS_GB

only cheap gaskets anyways

 

[s15Irl]

Oh that is pretty cheap! Thanks! Be no harm changing them in that case!

 

[Adam L]

I started with a really coarse file and after 5 minutes I realised I'd be there for quite some time if I carried on with it. So I stuck the rocker cover on a linishing machine with a coarse paper, I can't remember what grade though and that sorted it. I smoothed it off with a finer file.

 

[mattyb]

thanks for the nice comments guys. the gasket is just soft rubber and you cant over tighten the rover cover as the bolt have a wider part that hits the head, preventing you from over tightening them, unless you go mad. but i would check what the correct torque is still.

really like that hks one, makes me wish i had got the numbering machined off mine before i painted it. damn it. might have to do it again. lol

 

[john]

mine is the same colour as my car candy apple green but its starting to bubble i like the candy colours nice and bright, ill get some picturs up as soon as the weather picks up rain rain and more rain in ireland!!!

 

[JaseYpk]

oooh i wanna see candy apple green!
i like this thread haha. i need to get filing and painting!

 

[s15Irl]

thanks for the nice comments guys. the gasket is just soft rubber and you cant over tighten the rover cover as the bolt have a wider part that hits the head, preventing you from over tightening them, unless you go mad. but i would check what the correct torque is still.

really like that hks one, makes me wish i had got the numbering machined off mine before i painted it. damn it. might have to do it again. lol

Did you replace the gasket or use a new one? Ye ill be getting it torqued anyway!

+1 on that! Really wanna see candy apple green!
I kinda like the numbering on the cover, gonna have mine painted a different colour too!