Just painted my rocker cover this evening, What do you think of the colour? I saw the paint a couple of days ago and thought it would be a little different.
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Looks nice, all you need to do now is to use copper pipe for your cooling lines and you could enter it in a steam rally!!!

But seriously, a nice finish by the looks of it, is the paint oil proof?

Not sure if its oil proof. Paint applications are pretty vague. Heat resistant to just 110 degrees so I'm hoping with enough air flow through the engine bay it will be o.k. So time will tell. I think it would be nice to use throughout the engine bay as a different approach to the usual chrome/stainless effect. (and to continue the steam engine look.)

Looks like a tin smith just cobbled it together.

110 degrees....in my humble opinion your hosed, Air flow or not.

Otherwise it looks good...

[Edited on 6/11/05 by dl_peabody]

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Originally posted by dl_peabody
Looks like a tin smith just cobbled it together.

110 degrees....in my humble opinion your hosed, Air flow or not.

Otherwise it looks good...

[Edited on 6/11/05 by dl_peabody]

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Dan,

Looks great.

And 110°C you should be ok.

You're building a Locost aren't you? You sure you don't need to move the filler cap?

Cheers,
James

Yeah I thought the oil filler should be moved too but I wasn't really too sure on where it should be located or if it could just be shortened. When I looked at the height of the oil filler and the cam pulley cover the oil filler doesn't appear to sit that much higher. I thought by fitting a bonnet bulge/vent on the front edge may overcome some of the height issues when fitting the pinto and also give clearance for the filler. But that said I could be wrong and thats the fun with a Locost. This will also allow cooler air into the engine bay to help keep cool. Maybe.

The paint is Plasti-kote projekt paint. Ive seen this in silver, gold and copper. Cost about £6 for 400ml from Halfords. I saw it and thought Yeah right! but I was very impressed with finish.

Looks very nice, just one question though? Did you need to use a Primer/Undercoat, and if so was it heat resistant? Sorry that was 2 Questions

Degreased, stripped all old paint back to bare metal, Primed using normal primer. No temperature figure on tin. I couldn't find any special primers. I'm not a paint specialist or any thing so not really too sure what should or shouldn't be used. So a bit of a suck it and see I think, so I'll let you all know if its any good in about 10 years when the cars finished.