Another cosmetic mod

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PICCIES

I’ve painted the plastic covers on my engine, and used a Lotus Sport decal.

You can also see in the first few pictures that I’ve painted all of the rough unfinished fibreglass in the engine bay with matt back paint. Just makes it look a bit tidier.

I feel like it needs an aluminium oil filler cap to finish off the engine bay. Anybody know where I can get a nice one?

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I was driving along the other day, and looked into the back and noticed how untidy the bit where the Bacofoil meets the boot opening, and painting it black as you have done makes a big difference. Currently mine is all rough and theres lumps of what looks like silicon painted yellow!

Engine covers look cool painted red, dont think it`d look quite as good painted yellow to match my car though.

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I like the engine cover detail. Was this a special paint (high temp or similar?) Vey effective & cheaper than a c/f jobbie.

Tim.

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The mess of the engine bay in the rear view mirror was a big factor in making me go ahead with painting it. I didn’t bother spraying it as the surface is pretty rough anyway. I just used a tin of paint and brushed it on. The only problem was knowing where to stop. I’ve just added another picture which shows the black paint all the way round to the ends of the rubber edging strip, next to the air scoop.

There are loads of pictures of different colours on ELISETALK including some yellow ones which do look good. I’d probably stick with red, though.

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Tim, I used normal automotive spray paint from Halfords. I used Audi “Laser Red” which is a fairly decent match for Ardent Red. I think the yellow was Vauxhall “Mustard Yellow”. I can’t remember what the green was, but I think it was in the Plasicote range.
For the silver detailing, I used an Audi touch up set from Halfords. They have a very fine nib (which I used) for detail work as well as the fine brush.

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Brendan,

Hanger 111 do a couple of styles on the oil filler cap (LTS Sport & Roundel type). A snip at �35

Tim.

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Those oil filler caps are for Rover engines

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I found these.

[image]http://www.fensport.co.uk/partsfiles/commonparts/trdoilcap.jpg[/image] �56!!!

[image]http://www.fensport.co.uk/partsfiles/commonparts/trdoilcapnew.jpg[/image] �39!

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Glad to see you’re still modifying your cars Brendan

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Yikes, those oil caps are silly money for something that has the wrong logo

Steve, I’m addicted

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Cool man, that look really good!!

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Well if you’re thinking of selling that one next year, Fiona’s on the lookout for a sensible everyday car. I think she’s gone off the Boxter and is now talking about S2 Exiges

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She’s got good taste

I have no intention of selling the car, but you never know. I thought I was going to keep the S1 forever, then I changed my mind quite suddenly.

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Well it’s just had a new wheel bearing, new radiator and getting a new heater matrix fitted as we speak, so you probably did well to move to the more reliable Exige

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It’s certainly been a lot less trouble so far.

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A nother job for the weekend then

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A nother job for the weekend then

Blimey Jamie, you STILL not run out of mods then

BTW I reckon your car needs white viper stripes to finish it off. Saw a red S2 Sports Racer at Hillend today and it looked well

Mark

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This weekend I will be de-badging the back and doing the engine cover

Quite like being non-striped

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Where did you get the decal from brendan?

marc.

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The mess of the engine bay in the rear view mirror was a big factor in making me go ahead with painting it. I didn’t bother spraying it as the surface is pretty rough anyway. I just used a tin of paint and brushed it on. The only problem was knowing where to stop. I’ve just added another picture which shows the black paint all the way round to the ends of the rubber edging strip, next to the air scoop.

There are loads of pictures of different colours on > ELISETALK > including some yellow ones which do look good. I’d probably stick with red, though.

cool Brendan

I like the Frank Amoroso one with the stripe… some of these guys have gone to pretty extreme lengths with the old painting thing…