Jamesmx3 cheapest ever mod - Rocker cover polishing.
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looking shinyyyyyyy! lol
i love doing thing to my car that costs nothing!!! lol
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i started on the IM today after work, 2hours got me to this:
might have to invest in a set of needle files for this one, its tricky!
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Nice work buddy, i need to get bonnet lifters too. Im just focussing on the engine and weight atm.
Nice work…...A bit of effort goes a long way :)
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have you found any yet for the mx3? all ive seen is mx5
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Hey buddy, any old ones will do, you just drill a hole in the wing and in the bonnet support. Im just going to find some shiny ones off a car in a scrapyard, easy peasy 8)
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Well I jumped the bandwagon and dressed up the old rocker! Respect to you guys who cbf polishing it! I had a can of high temp paint so whacked it on after a quick wash and sand. Was putting in new gasket anyways…
Arty shot of my dirty engine:
Several hours later…
The spray cap was a dark red but came out orange :lol:
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Looks great guys, looks like i have started a trend getting everyone doing "easy peasy mods" lol
How bad are your backs feeling now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then Lower your MX 80mm and try it then, lol
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dam both engine bays look sweet!
i mite start on mine :lol:that polishing job looks awesome considering u didnt take it off, how hard is it to remove it to paint?
goodwork guys
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update- i bought some sandpaper! lol ill hopefully start sanding soon, this dam uni report is killing me :cry:
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started working on my engine bay, spent about 2hrs on it this evening, and dam the tips of my fingers are killing me from using the sandpaper haha ( comeon i do IT lol )
neways i sanded today with a course 240grit, 2morw ill hit it with the 400, and 1200 grit so it shud come up smooth, also ill prolly use a dremil which shud speed it up.ps wish i could just paint it red! but i dont really hvae the ability or knowledge to remove teh gasket :cry: neways ill post some updates once its finished :lol:
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it may be possible for you to paint it red and mask everything off in the engine bay. put news paper around the bottom of the cover. along witht he tape aroung the edge. roll news paper up also to block the plug holes up. (mate manage to do this) but be really carefull.
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more trouble than it's worth! Just buy another gasket and take it off. It's seriously not hard at all.
-Take the HT leads off the plugs (write on top their # if you want, but the length usually makes it obvious where they go)
-Loosen the 2 timing belt cover bolts at the top
-Take off the bolts holding cover on
-Unplug the 2 vacuum hoses
-Take off and clean/spray/shine ( put bonnet down whilst you're doing that )
-Put new gasket on- Torque bolts back on (think its around 20ftlbs, check the manual - its really not very tight at all)
-Put timing belt bolts on and vacuum hoses & leads
-Think wow that was easy, I think I'll do a klze swap now :D
- Torque bolts back on (think its around 20ftlbs, check the manual - its really not very tight at all)
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with the toqure. there may be a sticker on your bonnet. to tell you order to tighten and the torque. mine has.
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@a2a46ddd86=Valley:
with the toqure. there may be a sticker on your bonnet. to tell you order to tighten and the torque. mine has.
yea?! Neither of mine do, I want a sticker :x
