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Hey all,

Im going to get my rocker cover, plus other bits and pieces from under the bonnet sprayed shortley.

Trying to decide on colour and on effect etc.

I was thinking blue with a marble effect (pic below) But blue and red seem to be done to death.

Im looking at making it a show engine bay, bling etc. Will have all hard piping etc soon also.

What i did like about blue was it made it easy to colour match other parts, ie fitting, joiners etc

Just after some ideas. pics appreciated

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check out some of the powder coat colours out there, Hi Octane do some cool chrome powdercoat and then translucent colours over the top...

and Hi-octane coating did alot of work on the most recent street machine of the year EH...

they do some super trick work... plus the chrome powdercoats dont ever need polishing unlike polished alloy or stainless...

http://www.performancecoating.com.au/gallery/

+1 powder coating ftw.

It's soooo much easier to look after and dosent chip as easy as paint.

I could be wrong but those evo covers may be done in that dipping stuff like the fake carbon look??

Craved coatings (craved is on these forums) does excellent powdercoating work as well as hi octane.

I have found in my experience just painting engine parts turns crappy after a while, but I did paint sh1t myself so that could be half the problem lol

powdercoat definitely better at withstanding heat....

i 2nd this,

To describe how strong powdercoat is, I got my BBS RS wheels done in silver powdercoat and the middle waffle centre plate was done also,, whilst putting the waffle plate on the bbs wheels it didnt fit perfect because the powdercoat raised the backing side of the waffle plate by a few mm *i should have thought about this before i sent it away so i didnt need to wirebrush/remove powdercoat*

But neway i got the shits massively and i have a really bad temper so i frisbyd the plate down the backyard, it then hit the concreate , rolled onto the sandstone and hit the back shed, my mrs picked it up and it was totally fine, not a scratch.

i did chuck it pretty dam hard too ! so if it can survive that, it can survive plenty xD

wheels are on the car now and fit perfectly... haven't regretted it at all.

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Hahaha you sound exactly like me! rush of blood!

Cheers for the advice... Just googling a few things seems poweder coating is the way to go.. But of course plastics cant be done.

Spoken to craved, seems like the way to go...

Just need to choose a colour, probably Kandy colour...

Looking for ideas... The evo 7 will never be tearing up the 1/4 mile. But what i would like is an engine pay of show quality, bling, stand out, different... Starting with the rocker cover. help!?

pics of car with rims and interior or atleast ideas of the overall colour scheme your wanting to achieve on the exterior and interior...

only then can a nice contrasting or possibly complimenting colour scheme be suggested IMHO

^ thats true....

But My car is white. so im looking to go wild under the bonnet. Right now its standard. Just Xt7s with blue work wheel nuts, apexi pod and Trust titanium cat back.

No real colour scheme yet. so happy to be WILD wild

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That looks nice, kind of factory but tough all the same :thumbsup:

Not an evo bay but this will give you an idea of what Craved can do, my bay with a silver/chrome finish and a candy red. All the handywork of Chris.

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Both nice engine bays! But the first one isn't blingy enough, second one us very impressive! Congrads mate. So thatscandy apple red? Impressive, I also like the silver. If any one has any other ideas would be great. Even way out there ones

Thanks mate,

Yeah a kind of candy red. He does a silver base coat and then the candy over the top, so you could pretty much pick any colour you want.

And he has a few different shades of the silver, even has this trick looking black chrome which kindy looks metallic dark grey, hard to explain. I might send him a linky to this thread and he can post up some colours.

He has so many cloture man I don't think I could name them all.

I think you'll find the bottom two are ceramic coating, I was gonna get that done in the chrome but chris told me after a while the colour goes blotchy and grey cause of the heat so I went with black.

Those housings look the shiz though :)

thats the stuff all the show cars are using, even the EH that won street machine of the year... and it does get driven just not as much as a daily obviously...

on parts that dont get exhaust kinda temps though its fine...

Yeah a shame though that it can and does discolour, would've loved to have had my housings done in it.

The way I looked at it though was with track days and that much heat (plus my general luck lol) mine would like like balls in I'd be pissed off, so went teh black.

So do you reckon the front housings you posted up would keep the colour????

Might be time to take the pro s off my thinks for a little pretty up????

they are using those chrome coatings on drag cars and motorcross pipes, so I reckon it must be pretty good, even some of the professionals use those coatings like motoGP bikes and pro motocross as well as heaps of drag cars...

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