Painting engine partz

[LazyLunatic]

I want to paint the rocker cover and a few other bits in the engine bay to tidy it up a little.

I got some high temp paint.

Now do prime before paint, or just straight paint it? Not sure if the primer can handle heat.

Ohh and how do you paint the rock cover? I dont know how you take it off, if i undid the allen key looking bolts on top, surely they would remove the whole top bit and the engine will be exposed? Then i would need a new head gasket!?!? im confused now!!

Its a 1.4 AEX btw.

cheers

LL

[kells]

take it off to paint....its not the head gasket, its the rocker cover gasket, im not sure what type yours has, if its the cork type you need to replace with a new one (very cheep at dealers) the 8v has a rubber one which can be re used

[boneybradley]

Just make sure you clean it with degreaser before paint and also key the surface up other wise it will chip real easy.....oh yeah I'm using normal spray on my rocker and shes being fine!!
Even my calipers have normal auto paint and apart from keeping them clean and bright there still fine 2 years on!!

[LazyLunatic]

So i can just undo the three bolts and take it off, OK then. Guess i need to find out what gasket i got. If i take it off and i reuse the gasket, it could have a bad effect then?!?!

No primer then??

cheers peeps!

LL

[boneybradley]

here's mine 2 months after being primed and painted in normal car paint..... like i said tho, youll need to really degrease it and rough the surface up (or use plain old hammerite)

[snifferdog]

how did you get the vw to look so nice?!

[boneybradley]

how did you get the vw to look so nice?!

I stripped all the paint off with nitromores followed by wet and dry (on my electric sander) and gave it some polish and then painted around it... followed by more polish after the paint was dry. I am pleased with it and like i've said its normal car body paint..

[Rmachines]

the AEX is a rubber gasket and can be re used providing its in good condition. i paied £7 for my repacement one.

I smoothed my cover as well
 

[eightyeightmph]

I did it a little right up in the cosmetic section mate, just used hammerite but same principle for HT paint! You shouldn't need primer, as mentioned, clean all the sh!t off & 'key' the metal to get a good surface to paint on!

On a '92 Scirocco using black smooth hammerite;

Before...



After...

[kells]

Mine is polished up, all the metal parts are...

im a fan of black bays too