JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 next big misson was to clean up and paint the rocker cover,thought about it for a bit ,and was going to take it off to do it,but well i took off the nuts, it wasstuck down pretty good,so decieded to leave it on there and just mask up the engine, took a fair while to do this part, inbetween running around getting bits and pieces was a long day! was pretty dirty ,and the lettering had a bit of corosion on them , used prepsol and a scotchy,got all the old grease and dirt off,and sanded it up, found out it was made of alloy so wanted to have a go at polishing up the lettering .... Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 after the rocker cover was sanded then had a look at the lettering, started with 400 on these ones, there were fairly smooth so didnt need to corse to start with, can see the 400 took care of the surface corosion straight away... didnt want any sludgey water geting into the spark plugs and all over the engine so went crazy with the masking lol process i used on these were 400 dry,600 wet,800 wet ,1200 wet,1500 wet here its up to 800 Quote
Evan G Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 you should of painted it first then just sandback the letters :yes: then clearcoat Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 heres at 1200... had a break from that and went back to painting parts.... main pulley plenium... throttle body... oil thingy... idle air contraption (loving this matt black) Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 you should of painted it first then just sandback the letters :yes: then clearcoat yeah thats one way, but keep watching ....... :cool: Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 finally after all the painting and parts baked and unmasked heres what i ended up with,see what i mean there was a few bits.... loving this colour :yes: Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 leaving those parts, back to the rocker cover ,here started polishing the lettering... well looks alot better than it did.... then changed the spark plugs,the ones that came out wernt to bad,not sure if they were in there from factory,the ones i got were from america,iriduim ngks,the gap was set at 0.30, the site i got them off said that they were pre gapped ready to go, only thing was the old plugs had a gap of 0.36 plus not sure if thats casue they wear out or if thats what they were set at,any way ill leave them at that for the moment, got all the old masking off and cleaned up ,spark plugs done , letters polished ,ready to mask and paint... Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 just before i went to do that had to shoot off and get some stuff,but as i was driving along in my daily roller ,(that never gets attention,just abuse) i hear this nasty sound coming from the brakes,thought to my self oh dear god hear we go more dramas lol,any way quickly or should i say slowly back to work ,using the hand brake most of the way , got there with out crashing into any one,lol any way jacked up the car and took the wheel off, this is what i found... a nice gouge around the disk edge,most likely the horrible sound i was hearing,funny thing was the brakes seemed fine???? wierd,, any way pulled the caliper off and found the brake pads were practicly non exsistant!!!maybe 0.5 of a mm of pad left :lolcry: with a small stroke of luck i remembered i had a set of brand new pads that i bought for my other rolla about 3 years ago ,and i managed to find them! so was pleased at that, this is what the new pad looks like vs the stuft one,i know this is a little off topic but in the greater scheme of things the daily,is part of my build,with out it i couldnt get around lol any way after a bit of stuffing around got the bits back to gether,bleed the brakes, took it for a quick test run, and they work great ,way better than before ,the pedal is firm as,just want to cain around so i can slam on the brakes hahaha, pitty the engine is stuft :bash: any way that little drama out of the way back to work........ Quote
JDM55 Posted October 2, 2010 Author Report Posted October 2, 2010 back to the rocker cover... masking up.... spraying base..... also painted the crank angle sensor cover...... 2nd coat of colour clear coat... Quote
7FOUR7 Posted October 2, 2010 Report Posted October 2, 2010 man I have an exedy organic HD clutch at home, perfect cond it's only 200km old you could have had for 100bux Quote
JDM55 Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Posted October 3, 2010 man I have an exedy organic HD clutch at home, perfect cond it's only 200km old you could have had for 100bux \doh :bash: :lolcry: Quote
oh what a nissan feeling! Posted October 3, 2010 Report Posted October 3, 2010 man that colour is insane, love your work! Quote
ninja-philbo Posted October 3, 2010 Report Posted October 3, 2010 love it can't wait to start on this ke30 with ca under the bonnet glad old mate hadnt got too far into the covershion Quote
JDM55 Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Posted October 3, 2010 (edited) yeah thanks guys ,the colour turned out realy nice,slowly getting there ,bit of a mission on this part as I'm pretty much learning about engines and how everything goes together,so hopefully i havnt made to many mistakes so far, Edited October 3, 2010 by JDM55 Quote
JDM55 Posted October 3, 2010 Author Report Posted October 3, 2010 well did a couple more things today ,nothing huge just more put together stuff,been going hard out on this since thursday nite!,was trying to get as much done as i could by to day,but run outa steam lol,plus the daylight savings lost me an hour :glare: any way more bits an pieces >>>> thought id throw together the bits and pieces off the plenium,just so that was done and out of the way. so heres the plenium,throttle body and idle valve thingo, replaced a fresh gasket onto the plenium for the idle valve thing... something about flat black dunno i like it... all boted down with some nice s/s bolts vs old Quote
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