Engine Rebuild & Painting

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Im currently rebuilding my 106GTi's engine, its got a fair few miles on it now, and was looking a right mess. Ive removed the head and started cleaing it up, but I dont know whether to leave it as is, or to paint the head/block/gearbox and rocker covers, while its out.
If I were to paint it, im not really sure what colours would look good, the car is diablo red.

The picture below was taken after a few things were removed.
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With the rocker covers removed.
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Removing the cams, amazing how much oil can leak from a dodgy oil filler cap over time, common problem on the 106GTi/VTS. Its not been cleaned since I bought it about 5 years ago.
eng3.jpg

Started cleaning the head with the cams, valves, valve stem oil seals all removed.
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Ordinary Dulux works fine for engines.

I'd go for white with a red head (fnar). Keep on top of it with a steam cleaner and it could look good.

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Im also undecided whether to mod the engine while its out, or just go for a basic rebuild.
Ive looked at cams, manifolds etc, but also looked into bike TB's, although im unsure of the gains on an otherwise standard engine.
Ive priced custom inlet manifolds to run GSXR throttle bodies most cost £180-£240, although im sure I know someone who could fabricate one cheaper than that.
 
Phil W said:
Thought about polishing the rocker cover??
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Yeah, ive cleaned the RC's up already and they came up quite nice, but I dont think i'll bother polishing them. Painting them seems a far easier, but I dont want them to look tacky.

edit: Biohazard, are you really telling me to paint the inside of the engine?!
 
Black block, silver head, crackle finish red cam covers. Conventional but looks good.

Polishing looks a bit tacky IMO, reminds me of a chip shop counter.
 
Dont paint the gearbox in a wild colour, i did mine in blue then regretted it! But as its currently not on the car ill probably take the colour off it again!

Either clean the gearbox up well and just laquer it, or spray it silver so you can see if it leaks oil or anything.
 
Nah, I would have stuck to black or silver for the box, silver sounds like the best plan.
 
Thats cool ^. Do you apply the texturing/paint together?

I never meant bling bling shiney Lopez, just deburred/sanded metal, brushed up. Sorry my wording.

Yellow block 4tw!
 
The texturing IS the paint. It goes on like normal paint and crinkles as it dries. If you go over it with a hairdryer when it's wet you get tighter crinkles (which is what I did)

You could paint over it any colour you liked once it's dry I suppose - they do red and black that I've seen, but the red is a bit dark (like Honda Type-R cam covers are) so when I used it on the 205 I painted over it with a brighter red.
 
A friend of mine did something very similar last year.

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It looked really tidy when he finished with it, it had over 140k on it too.
 
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