Did some work on the old gal! Shiny bits yes shiny!

[clipperjay]

Cheers
Nick Gearbox next which will take me ages with some brake cleaner straight on it, to move 20 years of old grease!

I've got some issues where the firewall had brake fluid dripp down from the Master cyc and its taken about a hand width patch of paint off. The firewall metal is fine, but not sure what to do either buy a can of Atlas paint and do it myself or get the bay resprayed, but money that can be used for spraying the whole car?

 

[Horney]

Do the bay by hand mate, you can't see it all that well anyway so a mirror finish isn't needed unless you're going for trophies.

You'll need to really clean the metal though. Brake fluid has a nasty habbit of lifting fresh paint even when you think you've got it all off.

nick

[clipperjay]

Yeah the seals on the MC had perrished and resivor was near empty, most of it dripped onto the servo which took most of the fluid and must had dripped off into the floor.
 I've got a mint 22mm 9" MC and servo ready to put back in, but whilst its out I do need to sort that exposed patch of bare metal thinking of cleaning it with thinners before primer and paint 

[jamrock]

that is looking really good jay

i have toyed with the idea of sparaying up the same bits on my 16v with rattle cans but have always been put off, but your effort has given me new found faith. i heard powder coating is better but for the money you cant knock the spray route

BIG THUMBS UP!!!

[clipperjay]

Thanks fella its not really about making this car show condition, but just tidy.
I have so much faith in cans these days they are really good quality as you can see. They are forgiving aswell! The most important part is prep as long its grease and dirt free also using a decent thiners to clean the surface before spraying, nothing can go wrong IMO. The only time it looks bad is when the paint reacts with grease causes a skin or orange peel, but thats not the paint rather than its not cleaned enough, but then the fun part is sanding it back and starting again if it goes wrong. 
Powder coat is fine, with can paint you can pop most metal items at about 100C and bake it on just like powder coating on the cheap! At least with cans you have more colour options
I've avarage about £4 per can and spend about £50 in materials in total, Egay is good for some things...

[jamrock]

sweet advice, now this is something to do in the longer summer months ahead!!