painting rocket covers

[38VNIT]

Hey can some one on here tell me A) what paint to paint my rocket covers with and also how to remove them safely and stuff liek that...

[Stretchomatic]

firstly its rocker cover...i have never pulled one off but due to heat you would need heat proof paint, like for exhausts, brake calipers and what not.

[defa]

that is a pet hate of mine too. i don't think there is any rockets under there.. ya should be able to get away with any enamal paint out of a can. i painted a 265 hemi with cheap spray pack paint and none of it ever came off. it is still on the motor to this day with a good high gloss. and i painted it about 8 years ago..
i reckon the rocker covers look good poilshed. i have a set to put on my car. it will look great

[coolvxss]

My brake calipers are painted with Orange gloss enamal paint which costed $3 from supercheap and they are still bright orange and glossy after one and half years.

[adam69]

I got my rocker covers and other covers powder coated red almost a year ago and they are fine.Cost me about $75 plus getting them stripped.

[Keesh]

its only about $15 a can from autobarn for some high temp, i did my calipers with it and it looks nice, i might paint my plenium and covers

[flyen]

im actually doing this atm

i'm using heat resistant brake caliper paint
i've already started with some other stuff but the rocker covers are next

i'll post pics of what it looks like finished soon

[Keesh]

^^ yer should look awsome! its so cheap but effective just like painting the calipers.. my calipers are red so i might coulour code key engine parts like you are with a bit of red

[Reaper]

Hey can some one on here tell me A) what paint to paint my rocket covers with and also how to remove them safely and stuff liek that...

Firstly, what sort of rocket are you painting??? Is it an old school Apollo, a Shuttle, or one of those new euro things???

I am a fan of White myself but you need some of that ultra high temperature stuff because normal paint just burns off during re-entry. Also you need some good polish because the bugs get stuck good and propper when you hit them doing mach 3.

Always happy to be of assistance

Reaper

[Emackulation]

lol Reaper, I like your style. Bohahahahaha.
Umm yeah, I would personally go with hightemp paint or powder coating.

[PaRaDoX]

ok rocker covers are easy to remove, providing there are no obstructions,
s1 rocker covers are alminuim, s2 are plastic, im in the process of stripping the paint of a spare set of s1 rocker covers and im gonna polish them up , ill post some pics when the project is done

And actually it is a ROCKET cover... dont you know the buick v6's are rockets...... untill you compare it with something fast :P

and if your removing rocker covers do this, inspect the rocker bolts, i had one that was loose... caused a world of shit, if you can see the tread then tighten it
before you spray, makesure you clean them with prep wash as rocker covers usually get greasy, and we all know grease under paint = bubbles

[Keesh]

someone was telling me that its illeagle to chrome rocker covers cause people cut the fingers doing it or something:S is ther any truth in this haha i dunno it sounded funny to me

[flyen]

heres a pic of how the air intake pipe and fuse box turned out
i've had them in there painted for 3 days now and there is no bubbling or flaking so looks like it worked

but now it makes the rest look really dirty

it turned out really good so now i'll do the rest

[Keesh]

Yer looks awsome, u should have a go at the airbox and water tanks.. u wouldnt have to go far to make it look good ey, all it pretty much need is sum weaved hoses looks good man

[HoZy]

heres a pic of how the air intake pipe and fuse box turned out
i've had them in there painted for 3 days now and there is no bubbling or flaking so looks like it worked

but now it makes the rest look really dirty

it turned out really good so now i'll do the rest

Clean your engine bay up mate!

It's called 1ltr of Industrial degreaser, 1 high pressure washer, 1 steam cleaner, 1 can of rubber/plastic rejuvinator, 1can of belt dressing(to stop ur belts screaming like cheap hookers)



hehehe

I still have to set up my engine cover... & Paint my alternator fan black & the band on it...

Cheers
MaT

[Emackulation]

Sexy VN, Hey I just spotted that your radiator overflow bottle is on the passenger side of the car, is this only in Series 1? My S2 has it on drivers side.

[Apoc]

Sorry to bitch, but people tend to go on and on about spelling mistakes.....

"R" is right next to "T", not real hard to figure out what happened there...

Apoc.

[Emackulation]

Pssssst, Apoc. He done it twice... and no other words are majorly miss spelt (liek). Also, some ppl do actully call them rocket covers because thats what they think they're called.