Quote: Originally Posted by VL Exec87 you guys should try polishing the exhaust heat shield... looks fantastic and is a great finishing touch under the hood! Ill be painting my rocker cover soon but cause its just a N/A im not painting it with wrinkle, any suggestions as to what colour would complement my red exterior paint work?? I was going to spray the heat shields silver, but the bolts aint budging and I didn't want to snap the heads off them. I'll have to grab some Autosol and start polishing Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

I'm more then likely doing the manifold heat shield black. And the other will end up polished.

Just use a little Autosol to polish up the heat shield, takes a bit of effort but its worth it! do VHT make a flat red heat resistant paint?

http://www.speco.com.au/vht.html

Did mine after reading this thread, used the black VHT wrinkle plus. The stuff around the holden lettering is just dust from sanding. pic here (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y198/VLHERO/Picture004.jpg)

Mate... that black rocker cover looks sexual... Very nice job indeed...

i was thinking the same thing, you'll have to get a pic up of it in the engine bay.

almost looks like a House of Kolor Ice pearl... and yeah... you'll HAVE TO get us some in bay shots..

where do u get the spray paint from

Quote: Originally Posted by Rb30et87 where do u get the spray paint from Autobarn mate. And I'll post up a bay shot when I get round to washing all the dirt off it Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

how do you do the two tone

i know this is an old post, sorry to bump it up but just a question for people that have that kinda powder coated rocker cover with the red 'holden' lettering. Can you just degrease that down and paint it or whats the go?

just degrease it i guess mate

Yeah, degrease/clean thoroughly... make sure you use the right paint, temperature-wise.

question guys im a panel/paint complete dumb newbie... can u put putty in a rocker cover or would it just melt or dissolve off? ie if u wanted to flatten them line/tunnels running down the middle and have it all smooth and flat Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

I think the constant shaking of the engine would make it come loose. There'd be a better way to do it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sinister question guys im a panel/paint complete dumb newbie... can u put putty in a rocker cover or would it just melt or dissolve off? ie if u wanted to flatten them line/tunnels running down the middle and have it all smooth and flat I would run a line of metal filler down there and sand it flat. You can get hi temp metal filler. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

i was going to fill my two lines on the most recent one i painted. i milled the holden logo off , for the flat look , but ran out of time to do the lines. was going to get them filled with weld , then milled down and file finished. painted this one the other day under the house. panther mica and white (black with gold metallic)

That looks awesome Andy. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Nice job there big boy! looks great.