Had a spare cam cover so decided to paint it in a Black wrinkle effect

 

Quite some prep work prior to spraying

 

The cam cover had come off a car that had done 180,000 miles and died due to a red oil light. No surprise there after seeing the amount of caked black residue on the inside over cover(should of taken pics)

 

Hear is the cleaning stuff i used but depends on how bad your cover is.

 

 

using Engine degreaser soak cam cover and leave for 5 to 10 minutes then you can start scraping the really thick crud off carefully with a flat screw driver.

 

I then liberally sprayed oven cleaner(Mr Muscle foam, only £2 in Asda)  over the whole cam cover and into the breather tube. i left it for around 30 min and repeated again after a cold water rinse.

Pic below is after the second attempt and after 30 minutes when foam had died down.

 

This really lifted the crud

 

 

Then I used some soapy brillo pads to clean and also key surface for painting as did a similar job to wire wool.

Then I finished off using using astonish Engine De greaser(brought from pound land and really good) to soak away any crud left behind.

 

The result in amazing. Absolutely clean cover. (will post pics when I remove the masking tape from spraying)

 

Then after dry I used these spray paints

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251312618561?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

 

TBH don't think i needed the primer as the adhesion from the wrinkle paint is great 

 

Cam cover primed up

 

 

I let that dry for a day

 

Then I sprayed with the wrinkle paint. To get the wrinkle effect you have to spray at various angles (states on the tin) to build up wet layers.

 

This is important

 

- Horizontal

- Vertical

- Diagonal

 

Then depending on how warm it is the wrinkle will start to come out in 5 to 10 mins. It will a lot longer in the cool air.

I have heard some folks place the parts in a oven. If I wanted my n**** cut off i would of done that also   )

 

Instead I opted for carefully placing on top of engine when i came back from shopping. It was still quite hot.

Did the job a treat.

 

Today I had to touch up a few areas as not uniform wrinkle effect so now pleased.

 

Finished result

 

 

 

It will feel strange fitting it after  having my polished cover for a few years. 

 

Fitted

 

 

Coil packs installed

 

 

Coil pack covers

 

 

and complete

 

 

 

Starting to grow on me... 

 

cheers

 

Mark 

Looking good and I'll be watching to see how it fares long term.

Nice I like it how u get your manifold to come up nice and shinny like that?

Nice bay you have there..

:-)

Nice I like it how u get your manifold to come up nice and shinny like that?

 

Lot's of manual work buddy. Started with covering engine bay and then using course wet and dry working down to medium, fine and super fine and then finishing off with autosol alloy polish. come up well. 

 

Nice bay you have there..

:-)

 

cheers buddy.

 

Looking good and I'll be watching to see how it fares long term.

 

cheers buddy , love the look of that white VRS...

Where u get your coil pack covers ? Engine bay looks nice ill be getting some elbow grease down on my manifold now

Where u get your coil pack covers ? Engine bay looks nice ill be getting some elbow grease down on my manifold now

 

Got them from Awesome Gti in UK   buddy: 

 

They come from ECS in the states though

 

http://www.ecstuning.com/ES260956/

Thanks for the link mate I'll be ordering tomoz if she lets me lol I've spent a grand in the last week