Interested in what people have done under their bonnet, because as standard looks pretty plain and boring to me lol, was wondering if many people painted the cover? or anything else? showw me your engines

Little bits of bling.

An old picture of my engine bay circa 2005. No recent pics where things are a bit different.

if i were to spray the engine cover you think i would need to use high temp paint? and also is the cover hard to get off?

Heres One of my idea's..... i cant do photoshop so this is a really bad and quick pic of maybe what id be going for.

basically all sprayed black other than the bit that is already black and that would be a bright white

Anything you would change or do differently yourself?

Mine now looks a little different than this, the shiny plastic area is now pretend carbon fibre. Also got a carbon fibre expansion tank cap but that's out of shot.

looks good, nice and tidy. what you think about my idea??

First thing i did was to take the engine cover off... that's on a 1.4MPi though... prefer seeing how things work... the plastic is ugly but if sprayed can look good.

My modified Moggy 1000

Personally, I wouldn't do white in an engine bay. It wouldn't stay white very long. Everyone has different preferences, I prefer carbon fibre over colours. If I could do it without it looking bad, I would do the strut brace in carbon fibre as well.

If was to start dressing up an engine i think the first thing i would do is to take the engine cover off.

much nicer to see the engine rather than a nice piece of plastic

Here is a picture of my engine!

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here's my engine bay... i still use the engine cover though

Allard valve, Stainless boost pipe and BMC

Used to run the Seat Sport Brace but its a pest

That looks good:thumbup:

Here is a picture of my engine!

Never seen one without the cover on it, interesting. How do you guys (and girls)keep your engines/covers so clean. You could eat your dinner off of these engines! You must be under there with a tooth brush every day:D

here's my engine bay... i still use the engine cover though

Allard valve, Stainless boost pipe and BMC

Used to run the Seat Sport Brace but its a pest

P.S This looks sweet! What figures are you getting? Never thought of modding my VRS before but all this is tempting me!(when I have some spare dough)

Heres a picture of mine, covered in green leather

Here's mine. Visual mods to date include:

Seat sport strut brace, painted diamond silver

BMC CDA intake system

Allard EGR replacement intake "race-pipe"

Allard FMIC unique engine bay routing piping

Colour coded cam cover & cambelt cover

Colour coded water reservoir cap (out of shot)

Colour coded oil cap

Ported head finished in silver powder coating (thanks Jabba )

Water methanol reservoir with colour coded cap

Water methanol pump, all on unique fabricated bracketing attached to gearbox under

Nitrous solenoid, piping into FMIC pipe

Nitrous switch, sitting to right of engine on boost pipe, two wires sticking out of it.

Slam panel is now destickered and silver (shot is from Summer 2008)

Refurbed & chromed fuel rail.

Not much else planned to bling up the engine bay really.

come the summer(and if the job situaton gets better) i'm going to have a go at smoothing the bay:D

My modified Moggy 1000

Thats a little bit special

P.S This looks sweet! What figures are you getting? Never thought of modding my VRS before but all this is tempting me!(when I have some spare dough)

its only remapped mate but has every mod needed for hybrid power except the turbo and FMIC :thumbdwn:

Just keep it clean mate. Spend your time driving it instead.

Engine mods,

Forge carbon fibre oil cooler tank

Forge TDI dump valve

Daztek piggy back powerplug (175bhp)

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Usually have engine cover on as well. . .

The stainless boost pipe looks good:thumbup:, but are there any benefits from it?