Mk1 16v Project

[Preen59]

what colour are you gonna paint it?

I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

[Jarred]

I assume you mean the cam cover? Black wrinkle finish.

oh yea woops, I remeber reading that somewhere now...

ANd yes, you should get ready in time for nats

[evorobin]

Now THIS is a real 16v!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8i5G4l6Kkw

That's about as serious as it gets.

And this is revving the back out of summat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv42vKGJl64&NR=1

[Preen59]

Primed the cam cover yesterday and painted it today.



Tomorrow i'm going to rub the ribs back and re polish them. I'l post pics when it's done. This wrinkle finish paint takes a while to set properly, the can says 5 days to fully harden! It had started to wrinkle a little when i left the workshop.

[Jarred]

wow, that's patience, 5 days! I think it'll look pretty trick once you're done

[Preen59]

Ok, well the wrinkle finish went to crap cause it stained when i polished the ribs and i couldn't get it out. Also it was uneven because half way through painting it the can started leaking so i could get even cover .

So, i wet blasted it again and repainted it with high temp flat black. Came up looking really good i think..




Also, today i lightened my flywheel, which came up well.



If anyone is interested i can machine flywheels for them, too.

[Jarred]

hot!!! I love it, great combo with the flat black and polished ribs.

[Valver.]

Nice project Should go well with that engine

[Preen59]

Nice project Should go well with that engine

Thanks dude, it's not to the level of detail that your cars are (which are some of the best i've ever seen), but i just want a nice neat car that i can say is mine and i've done.

[Preen59]

Ok, so yesterday i got some more stuff done on the braking department. I started fitting the rear disc setup that i got hold of. I've cleaned all the parts up and painted them and i also machined the discs and cleaned them up too. At the moment i'm just doing one side so i can figure out how i'm going to do it. This way if i make a mistake it's half as bad.

Here's a pic of the setup on the rear end (Minus the disc..)



And here's the freshly machined and painted discs.