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First cosmetic mod to the stagea will be removing the coilpack cover, cam covers and cam gear cover, and painting them. Ideas on colours would be appreciated! something candy. The inlet plenum will be be stripped and polished. The inlet pipe with the 'twin turbo' badge will also be being rubbed back to smooth, then polished.

Also going to relocate the fuse box and hide engine bay wiring by extending all the wires with off-the-reel colour coded wiring to make an extended harness etc, and run wires that cant be hidden inside split silicone hose.

I have an R34 V-Spec GTR coilpack cover badge to replace the standard nissan twin cam 24valve item. Will be tracking down a Nismo or GReddy Oil cap, just to finish the look.

Has anyone had a shot at this themselves? If not, i'll take heaps of pics as i go and do a writeup. This would obviously be similar to RB25DET's and DE engines also.

Equipment -

Paint stripper for plenum.

320, 800 and 1200 grit sandpaper. Maybe 2000 also.

Shitloads of rags and metal polish.

Masking tape and 11ty billion newspapers.

Plastic sheeting to completely cover everything in the engine bay - can never be too careful when using paint stripper.

Heat proof primer (VHT or similar)

New Cam Cover gaskets.

Sh1tloads of various coloured wire

soldering iron and solder

loom tube.

Will update this post with any tools needed as i use them.

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Again - has anyone done this? Anything i need to watch out for? tips and tricks? Anything else i should do at the same time?

if your inlet pipe is getting polished, you might as well polish the chrome covers and cam covers aswell.

I personally would chrome them as they are easier to clean and look much better.

The only problem with doing it with cans, is you dont often get that slick look. I have tryed spraying my rocker covers with cams but didnt look nearly as good as it coming off the gun.

Edited by HKS_R34

The only paint from a can will be the heat proof undercoat. The rest will be from a gravity fed gun.

I used to do paint and panel for PHAT Engines, Northside, so im not expecting the paint side to be too difficult.

I dont want the engine bay to look too blingy, as the rest of the car isnt, just tough and tidy. Chrome does look nice - but would be out of place in this instance i think. Cheers for the feedback, D.

RED!

RED! Cam / Rocker covers!

Quote "The inlet pipe with the 'twin turbo' badge will also be being rubbed back to smooth, then polished."

NICE! I like that. With RED Cam / Rocker covers!

Red as the :P himself :)

Edited by (00)SKYLINE(00)

I was actually thinking a deep candy red would look nice. Paint a silver base so that it really stands out. Will be red cam covers, coilpack covers, gear cover, with the polished plenum on one side and inlet pipe polished too.

You like everything red haha... was thinking of doing the brembos in the same colour. Just gotta get brembo stencils made to redo the logos.

I was actually thinking a deep candy red would look nice. Paint a silver base so that it really stands out. Will be red cam covers, coilpack covers, gear cover, with the polished plenum on one side and inlet pipe polished too.

You like everything red haha... was thinking of doing the brembos in the same colour. Just gotta get brembo stencils made to redo the logos.

DONE! Before you change your mind! :)

Cuz everything in my R32 is black and when ya wana take a photo its kinda hard to show anything off, unless I wipe everything down and get the dust off LOL!

Where as you are going for the GTR R34 paint theme, it looks very nice and ya even scored the coilpack cover, welldone!

Red Brembos! NICE!

Edited by (00)SKYLINE(00)

Yeah got the cover for a song haha... the same guy was selling the candy red full set of covers for about $600+ so i figured hmm i can do one shot better. I'll be poking around the engine bay looking for other things to freshen up while ive got paint mix in the gun.

I have a braided lines kit to go over the factory piping so i will run all that at the same time too. Just the mesh that runs over your piping. Have done it on other cars - if done properly and you take your time, looks VERY noice.

Well thats it then. Candy red, Brakes to match. Should look okay on the black car.

Will take pics along the way for anyone that wants to do a similar thing. RB25's just run bare steel cam covers so should definitely be a popular mod with those dudes.

Will take pics along the way for anyone that wants to do a similar thing. RB25's just run bare steel cam covers so should definitely be a popular mod with those dudes.

front cam gear covers are stamped steel, cam covers (rocker covers) are cast alloy.

Stamped steel hey? thats gonna make things easier. Cheers. Being alloy the cam covers (rocker covers...? OHV?) should polish up nicely but im going to stick with the paint.

personally if you want a candy - and are going to paint it yourself, try something out of the box - so many colours out there

say a dark candy green over a metallic base

I had thought of a couple of different colours but just keep coming back to red. Yes, painted over a metallic base, was the plan, but to go with the black car im not sure if there are any other colours im keen on. I had thought maybe a yellow. Being a dark car i really want the engine to stand out, with the hot candy colour in the centre, with polished aluminium on either side. Should be effective.

Hey craved do you do the coatings in your sig im looking to get mine done.

yep sure do - podercoat including metallics and candies

send us a PM of what you want done and the colour your thinking and we'll have a chat

If you have a few hours you can do that yourself. Paint stripper, few different grades of sandpaper, and polish polish polish!

  • 2 weeks later...

Also going to hide any wiring i can, as well as relocate fuse box. have modified first post. This is my first time doing this, so we'll see what happens. I can install alarms, central locking, stereos, av units and etc so hopefully tis will be manageable. Not a complete novice!

Figured i may as well give it a full tidy. anyone done this?

Step by step starts soon!

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