POLISHED OR CHROMED CAM/ROCKER COVER

ZOMBIE · Post by **ZOMBIE** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:30 pm

I was just wondering if anyone had a polished camshaft cover?or new how to polish them? Its the first thing people see when they open up the bonnet and I have sprayed mine silver but the rust is beginning to come back.
CAN I BUY A CHROMED OR POLISHED ONE OFF SOMEBODY?
Advice on how to polish it??

Nick101 · Post by **Nick101** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:41 pm

Probally looking for a bit to have it chromed tom, i just sprayed mine too, but i think it looks nice!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:00 pm

I think Young_un can get things polished for you - certainly his sig says to ask him about polishing, so I assume he can

ZOMBIE · Post by **ZOMBIE** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:34 pm

I think I am going to try and polish it myself by taking it back to bare metal then sanding and polishing it with abrassive paste and then spraying it with high temperature laquer. Cheers any way G.C

Nick, what else you done on your car?
I finally got the middle bit so I have a complete ashely straight through exhaust. I am gona get a weber as well next month along with performance HT leads and if I redo the piston rings I am gona have the head ported and polished. I was thinking of getting a gt but I dont know yet, I think I like my car far to much now plus I value my health:lol:
PIcs are coming soon just waiting to get the MOT sorted so I can take it some place nice to photograph it.
If you want the pioneer speakers tell me the dimentions of your old ones and Ill get in touch with my mate who works for pioneer, L8r S A

hardhitter · Post by **hardhitter** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:59 pm

I have an alloy rocker cover which has the raised bit polished, make me a sensible offer.

ZOMBIE · Post by **ZOMBIE** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 7:20 pm

Yeah I would be interested, but what part is raised on the rockercover, will it fit the mk2 polo coupe 1.3 mh engine? what would you want as I have no idea how much they are then Ill haggle you

Cheers Tom

Revis · Post by **Revis** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:41 pm

i polished mine myself. didn't turn out too bad

hardhitter · Post by **hardhitter** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:01 pm

It's just like the one above which revis polished, except just the raised bits on the top are polished. You could polish the rest of it pretty easy.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:25 pm

Slightly off topic question I know, but what happens to the crank case / rocker cover breather when you have one of those alloy covers? There's no attachment for the pipe.. is it just not necessary?

Nick101 · Post by **Nick101** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:26 pm

ill give u a ring tomorrow about the speakers tom, about my car, not much else, ordered some bonet lifter struts today

Revis · Post by **Revis** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:55 pm

ive had a small pipe for the breather pipe to fit onto welded into mine now, so no problems there

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:49 pm

Revis have you got a pic of the breather pipe welded on to the cover??? Tom (zombie) has jus got one for a couple of quid, and now has the problem of fitting the breather pipe??

any help will be appricated

ZOMBIE · Post by **ZOMBIE** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 8:42 pm

Does anyone know the type of metal the early cast rockercovers are made out of? [like the one above], ive got one but have to have a breather pipe welded to it. Do you think I could run a breather through the oil cap?
Cheers Tom

mk2keel · Post by **mk2keel** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:40 pm

Why do you need the breather welded on, surely they work fine without it on the rocker?

Nick101 · Post by **Nick101** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:03 pm

their aluminium tom