Orange VL are you genuinely trying to act and look stupid? Listen to what the educated people on the forum have to say and leave the magazine mechanics to talk their crap to each other. goto www.howstuffworks.com (http://www.howstuffworks.com) and begin educating yourself.

yer i beleave you guys, just since its the motor and i ant to good with them, i dont wanan **** nufin up, so i wanna get me facts right and double check them so nufin goes wrong

The wrinkly red is lookin great fellas. Good to see some guys doin their cars up to the factory spec. I'd like to do it to mine but since mine's n/a it'd be a bit wanky to pretend i have a turbo. Keep it up fellas.

Nice work Antho, proves that the little things make a big difference..

this is mine, i like a smooth finish, looks good against the blue paint of the car i reckon. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by OVL087 nice article antho i quite like the wrinkled finish on the stock/original looking car. that vht stuff seems to have worked well. oh , here mine - just did it last week at work the rocer covers looks good painted but watch the clear dis colour if it gets to hot Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

OVL087, thats incredible howd you get the sorta faded two toe effect? Ill respray my rocker cover now ive read this.. the wrinkly red paint has chiipped off! Im probably just gonna rub it back and get it all smoothed out with red on top and silver on bottom! What paint is the best for rocker covers? Do they get hot?

Antho- Do you recon youd be able to safely use a toothbrush or somthing to get in those "hard to get" places?

BeeJay yes the rocker covers do get hot, you should use "Wrinkle Paint" and the colour is Red, it is made by VHT, you can pick it up at most RiceBarn's, I prefer the one colour (The stock red) on the rocker cover rather than the two tone...But the two tone does look good Andy...I'd just like to put in a good word for my little-bro Roy who gave me a fair bit of help and took the pictures. Cheers for comments, Antho...

And yeah BeeJay a toothbrush would probably work well I never thought of that just use the paint stripper to soften it up first. Or as somebody else said the spray on paint srtripper would probably work better but I had the paint stripper sitting around so i just used that.

i just did this to mine too, didnt realise someone had posted an article already! good work. just thought i'd add one tip - put the paint stripper on quite generously and let it sit for 5-10 mins. you'll see the old paint start to bubble. i then use a high pressure hose (they only cost about $70 and are very useful for cleaning things) and just blasted it.. no messing around with scrapers or anything!! in fact it came off so easily i could have just used the pressure i get from the garden hose if i used the focussed beam spray that those multi spray attachments have. also i tried the spray on stripper first but the damn can kept clogging up, and in the end i coudlnt even push the nozzle down, was a waste of money! i hope it was just a faulty can!

Just done mine, good article. Decided to paint the cover the same colours as the car, now just gotta clean the rest of the engine bay... Here's 3 pics, of my cover on the car, the paint setting on the rocker cover, and finnaly, on the car. Goes from Gold, to Red.

do you have to use the VHT heat resistant paint, like the engine enamel?? or can you just use any paint in any colour that is meant for metal and just spray the sucker on?? have you guys used clear coats?? if so, what brand have u used? was it heat resistant?? ush

Heres mine, pic is ****ty, however you can see my painted plenum too Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Does this wrinkle gear come in many other colours.. I'm thinking of getting mine done in burgundy to match the colour of the car..

Lookin good guys. Andy your 2 tone looks good too. I did mine in red to match my car. The flash makes it look orange, but it's not. It's None turbo but I liked the red, it brightens up the engine bay. Now I've got 4 of the suckers lying around I'm going to play with a few different designs.

Glenn thats nice work All you need now is the hairdryer bolted on LOL Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Quote: Originally Posted by vlt-dreamer Heres mine, pic is ****ty, however you can see my painted plenum too how did u do the plenum? Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Nice work Antho...Came up a treat thanks to my help, Roy..

Yeah Greg (vlt dreamer) That does look nice.. Howd did you do the plenum? What paint did ya use? Ir is it just polished?