rocker cover

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:34 pm

as a few of you mite of seen i got my inlet manifold sprayed. im going to be doing the rocker cover soon have any one of you done the same? if so what paint did you use? considering its plastic and dose get a bit warm now and then

lwrida · Post by **lwrida** » Mon May 14, 2007 6:26 pm

I want to do the same thing and seeings how I got black with green flake exterior I was thinking of doing it pink.

But seriously I would also like to know what paint to use. Someone answer this great blokes request.

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Mon May 14, 2007 7:46 pm

do a coat of heat resistant paint as the undercoat & then you can use whatever paint you want, if you can clear coat it with more heat resistant paint i'm sure that would be best, otherwise i don't think that the clear coat would matter if it wasn't heat res.

Camo · Post by **Camo** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:33 pm

Depends if you want to just spray it one colour, or if you actually want to paint a picture on it (i'm sure you have seen some of the amazing samples on the net)

If you just want to spray it one colour, then caliper paint should work fine for you!

If you want to spray it with a whole picture (lots of different colours) there might not be a big enough range of colours in caliper paint to suit you.

Rocco · Post by **Rocco** » Mon May 14, 2007 9:43 pm

Isnt caliper paint in matt form as standard?and i'm sure u want a gloss finish

nosman · Post by **nosman** » Mon May 14, 2007 10:38 pm

Caliper paint also comes in glossy depending on what brand you get. Cheaper ones are matte.

Camo · Post by **Camo** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:59 pm

There is quite a range of caliper paint out there!

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:00 am

ok cheers i will see if heat res paint will stick to plastic then rocker cover coming soon then

Post by **BorepYano** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:35 am

prep the surface then it will definately stick.

um... i think sam (FtoSam) has his painted silver... if my memory serves right, so just shoot him a PM and ask

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:52 am

We talkin bout the MIVEC cover here???
I painted mine with some silver high temp paint from the local paint store.
just sanded it back first and washed it.. Then Sprayed away.. No clear coast or anything... HOwever its pretty rough up close. So you may want to investigate further.

Piccies:

Ignore the MS Paint crap.. Pic was being used for something else. (To get a CF Mivec cover made up.)

tintin · Post by **tintin** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:10 am

ok cheers im going to be doing a few coulors. i have heard of the cf covers very rare ?

mr-charisma · Post by **mr-charisma** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:16 am

I knew I saw this somewhere.... this is the only link you should need to read it has everything!

http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=20100

Here's some other links,

haven't been able to check content for how to's or anything, but there are plenty of threads on it at www.ftooc.org just do a search for;
painting AND mivec AND cover
or
painting AND rocker AND cover

http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ivec+cover
http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ivec+cover
http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ivec+cover
http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ivec+cover
http://www.ftooc.org/phpbb/viewtopic.ph ... ivec+cover